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Here's a review of ModStep, just up, that I wrote for Audio News Room if anyone's interested...
http://audionewsroom.net/2016/01/modstep-review-from-a-purely-100-ios-musician-perspective-the-best-ios-sequencer-yet.html
Hi Matt,
there is a little texts should be changed by editor as quick as possible!
It is not subtractive synthesizer, it is Additive wavetable! So under the list highlight, Provision for 2 detuned oscillators should also be edited to 1-64 tonal (or..., don't know how to call it) per cycle!
Great writing to praise the app! Enjoy your feeling to it!
Cheers.
Nice read made, good work !
Great article Matt 200, I hadn't thought about the possibility of controllin multiple instruments using templates. Good idea. Now, instead of refreshing the app store looking for that 1.0.2 update I think Ill try it out.
He is the two thousand man, why you give him two hundred credits!
Ha - thanks both.
I'll take 200
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And article now corrected to say 'additive' synth... - thanks for that @Kaikoo
Thanks...
Be interested to hear how you get on - and how far you can take this. I must admit my idea is mainly hypothetical at this stage - but I see no reason why it wouldn't work since you can override the default midi channel on lots on functions. You might need to mess with the ports the track is sending too as well. I presume it can send to more than one port.
I will be too busy and can not enjoy your new perspectives much at every steps, but will listen to your cloud music every so often.
Ya Matt, salute to you!
Thanks @Kaikoo. I've been enjoying one of your soundcloud tracks actually. The Awesome Auria one.
I think in this world of VST's and APPS people are forgetting how useful MIDI routing can be
I used it to create a single set of drumpads that used drums from 3 different drum apps, load the apps in audiobus and set them on different midi channels, works a treat as long as your drum apps behave themselves midi wise (Here's looking at you attack
)
I really love playing with this app. First sequencer on IOS that just feels right. And this is despite the bugs, the crashes, the weirdnesses and the unintuitive interface. I think it's a sign of how good it is that when I can't work out how to do something I treat it as an interesting challenge. This is a sequencer that's perfect for jamming and improvising. So much fun. If you want to make any kind of electronic music, you will love this.
It's still not perfect though.
Things that currently bother me:
I can also get the app to crash when playing with the active steps functionality. Hopefully that will be fixed soon.
Some nice enhancements would be:
While we're dreaming:
ModStep and Elastic Drums:
Has anyone got this to work? I've tried a few things, but no matter what I do, Elastic Drums does not play the notes sent from ModStep.
Given the variability of MIDI interoperability in iOS I keep forgetting how I got this to work...
This is the midi setup in elastic (if you aren't using Modstep clock to drive an Elastic pattern, but sequencing Elastic in Modstep)
Modstep is what you'd expect...
Drum kit starts at C1 and goes up...
Pretty sure this works side by side with other IAA stuff on other channels
Hope it works for you
Why it has to be this way is a question for our forum MIDItectives...as a friend reminds me "why" is not a spiritual (read: musical?) question
Hmm, thought I'd already tried that. I'll have another look at the general settings in ModStep, maybe that's where the problem lies. Am I right in thinking that clicking on the note/CC icons tells ModStep what to send out on that midi channel? Midi on the iPad is way more confusing than it needs to be.
My long term plan is to use ModStep to drive apps on my phone and iPad simultaneously...
Hi Kaikoo, what is your name on Soundcloud. Would love to listen.
If you're talking about sending notes to ED, I think it doesn't work. I don't (yet) own modstep, but when I got my BSP, -(beat step pro sequencer) I tried all drum machines that I own, because one of the sequencers in BSP is dedicated to drums.
To my big disappointment I found out that there is a handful of drum machines that can be sequenced externally sort of speak...many will play last "layer" of notes only....
Those that work:
iElectribe, NanoStudio, DrumPerfect Pro, Beat machine, (on ch.1 only, it's broken)
Maybe others...?
Also BS -16 if you load drums does great....or M1
Diode 108 worked great until last update f€$¥>ed it up...royally and the clowns responsible disappeared....
Erm - i'm pretty sure that ED won't accept midi notes if you have it loaded as an IAA. Almost none of the drum machine apps will.
However, if it isn't loaded as an IAA app - then you should be able to send midi notes to it. have a look at the manual. I seem to remember it might be channel 10 only (certainly iElectribe is). And if C2 upwards (or whatever it says in the manual) doesn't work - then try C3 upward or C1 upwards.
I seems to remember getting it to work once - although it was a long time ago and I remember it took a while. It's in the manual though...
Name also Kaikoo
Matt, DrumJam and Beathawk and FunkBox work well on IAA slot, few days ago things, forgot it all, I don't play Modstep until next update!
Matt, when I did my tests with BSP, i had AB opened, with 2 synthesizers on ch. 1 and 2 and drums on ch. 10. Sequenced directly into AB. (My apologies if I created confusion)
Since I don't have modstep, what @cian said ...it sounded similar to what was happening with ED when I tried with BSP.
Are there different ways to use drum machine in Modstep? If you open AB and load modstep and add ED, can you sequence it? Or do you load ED or any drum machine into Modstep?
iElectribe works best.
The IAA thing might be part of the problem. Really hadn't occurred to me that would be an issue. I'll try messing with channels, though ED has assignable channels so that shouldn't be the problem.
I like Diode, but if I'm playing drum samples the ModStep built in sampler seems fine for my purposes. At least after they sort out the importing issues.
IAA seems so flaky in practice that I don't know why I bother...
Hadn't considered using BS-16i for drums. I mostly use it as a way to play soundfonts when demoing a song. Which is probably underutilizing it. I do like it.
Yes... (I take it you mean drum machine apps). You can try and load them in as IAAs (but most, in my experience, won't allow themselves to be sequenced extrenally liked this) or you can NOT load them in as IAA just send them virtual midi - and record their outputs via AB.
Erm... see above. Remember AB is just a way of capturing the audio output of an app and feeding it into another app. Your sequencing needs to be done via normal virtual midi or via IAA midi (if you load it as an IAA).
Let me know if you get it going...it was working for me this morning, in IAA as described.
In fact I have it running in the BG right now...
The thing to check:
select your channel in # on ED (any channel, unlike iElectribes 10 only)...and background audio...
Select "No MIdi Input" under "Clock in". - "on"
Select "Elastic Drums" under "Note in" - "on".
(I know this makes no sense)
It's loaded as an IAA in Modstep
Refer to the pngs for Modstep - I'm not repeating these in prose because they are what youd think, but maybe not. Gen settings in Modstep: look for what is NOT active...
Seriously, @Matt_Fletcher_2000, @soundklinik it's playing in the background right now. Sounds f%#king cool too...
Now Cyclop on track 2, awesome...haven't tried Link, just IAA: ED and Cyclop...
Come on somebody, tell me I didn't screen shot and attach all this stuff while sitting on the crapper this morning at 630am to no avail...
It works!
Yeah - where is that new update? I know it was submitted to Apple for review towards the end of last week... maybe end of this week? I too am holding off on using ModStep until the new update - i like it, it has potential, but it's too prone to crashing right now to use for me. Anyways, looking forward to the new update!
Littlewoodg: No it was super helpful. As soon as I'm off work I plan to try this. I'm sure I was off on one tiny little detail...
No worries. I shouldn't be problem solving this at work!
the iOS midi stuff is maddening, ED is weird (mostly de-selection of what you'd think ought to be selected)
It worked @Littlewoodg. Thanks. Not sure what I was doing differently before, but following your steps exactly fixed it.
Couldn't get the pads to work though, which is odd. Pretty sure the problem is on modstep's end, as the piano roll worked perfectly. Has anyone got the pads to work with an external synth? Is there some weird trick that I'm missing?