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Advanced Step Sequencer

A monophonic midi step sequencer.

On the surface it’s reasonably standard. It’s a grid based sequencer - notes, gate, tie, velocity and two control changes. What’s unique about it is that you can set different loop points for each of those elements, which allows for anything from simple 303-style basslines to endlessly evolving, rotating, mutating melody lines.

The other unique thing about this is that it’s designed to work solely within musical scales. The sequencer ‘grid’ adapts itself to whatever scale you choose. Choose a chromatic scale, and you get a full 12 steps to play with, but choose a pentatonic scale and the grid automatically adapts itself to show only 5 rows. You don’t need to know any music theory to get great results.

Add to all that a bunch of useful randomisation options and it becomes a really useful tool.

Top tip - Rack these up and put several each in their own chain for mad polyphonic polyrhythmic sequences.

You can grab it here and there's a video of it in action here.

thank a lot ..I'll be checking it out soon..

Cool! Very nice looking.


Cheers

Andrew

P.S. metro @active 1 should solve one of your known issues.

pukunui wrote:... metro @active 1 should solve one of your known issues.

Ah lovely, thank you. Fixed and updated to version 1.0.2

Thanks, beautiful. .
Might want to take a look at this... the skip and jump feature would be nice... and launchpad support might be too much to ask for.. ... sweet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn7gxL2OgqE

RajahP - would you have skip and jump for each element or just for the Note sequencer? I'm trying to imagine how it would best be implemented.

I don't have a LaunchPad yet. I'm quite tempted to sell my APC40 to get one though, as the LaunchPad seems easier to integrate with M4L.

nice!

should play well with my Operator303

Wow this looks very cool. Can't wait to have a dabble!

Updated to version 1.0.4. The sequencer now syncs to song transport, so it should replicate exactly depending on where you are in your song. Timing is now a lot tighter too

Rory

Can't thank you enough... this is a dream come true!!!

rory wrote:RajahP - would you have skip and jump for each element or just for the Note sequencer? I'm trying to imagine how it would best be implemented.

I don't have a LaunchPad yet. I'm quite tempted to sell my APC40 to get one though, as the LaunchPad seems easier to integrate with M4L.

Seem like it would be great on notes..

I love this, thank you very much!