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midiSTEPs update
The excellent little sequencer midiSTEPs (same dev as midiLFOs) has had an update too.
What's New
In edit step hold mode, you can now switch between steps by tapping them
Audio Unit Instrument hosting improvements
- Supports presets and saving user patches outside AU's own interface
- AU window is now movable
- Improved compatibility with newer AUs
- Stability of AUs is good now. More AU features are planned...
Bug fixes
- iOS 8 crash with Sound parts fixed
- MIDI input was octave off, now fixed
- AU list was buggy with multiple AUs, now fixed
- Hanging notes in certain situations fixed
- Pattern link didn't work with pattern popup window, fixed
- Max value for random and length automation bugs, fixed
- "Save" has been renamed "Sets" to clarify it isn't a save button
- Misc display glitches, fixed
Comments
Woot! Thank you @artkerns! Some gems in that list.
I'm a little bit disappointed because I hoped for Ableton Link support in this update. iPhone support would be cool too.
I asked @artkerns about that yesterday.
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"@artkerns excellent update, thank you very much. What are the odds of your wonderful apps getting Link sometime in the (near) future?
This was the reply:
"@hellquist yeah link looks good, probably next update, unless apple announces something similar soon for ios10"
This is the link to the reply:
Ideally I'd like Link in both midiSTEPs and midiLFOs. In the meantime it is MidiLinkSync/LinkToMidi for the rescue, as pretty much all my setups and songs these days use Link for tempo.
even if.. new stuff again?
Super app. Sweet!
I don't get it, so how would you use this app within AUM? Please forgive my ignorance as im still learning about sequencing. If I get Modstep, will that cover my midi needs or does this app add to modstep?
@Tones4Christ : You can in theory get by with ModStep only for the functionality of midiLFOs.
The thing is, midiLFOs is amazingly simple, and very very light on resources. I think most people would agree on that ModStep is many things, but simple and intuitive is rarely in the description of it. It all depends on where you want to spend your time.
I am loving ModStep. For running a couple of LFOs in a synth I would deem it overkill to start ModStep for that purpose only, a bit like opening Auria to use Aurias compressor (I'm not thinking about anything related to FabFilter, those often ARE worth opening Auria for). It can be done, it is totally possible, but it is probably simpler/easier to open up a small compressor app (AUFX for example).
@Tones4Christ hah. I thought I replied in the midiLFOs thread, sorry.
Again though, simplicity is the key for midiSTEPs.
It cannot replace ModStep when it comes to sequencing capabilities, however, speed and simplicity make it an excellent little companion if you do things in AUM for example.
Or if you want a little bit more advanced sequencing than an arpeggiator.
But alas, for power, ModStep beats it in most ways except simplicity.
It says it can control four sections I think, so by it being AU you can just another channel and control another four sections?
I just wish Art would turn off all those animation transactions when switching between midisteps and lfo withinh midilfos app
Im lost again.. Lowest bpm is 60?
If using isem au, how to map cc# from midilfos?
midiSTEPs is an AU host. It is not an AU instrument/effect itself.
midiSTEPs can run 4 parallell sequences, most often controlling 4 different synths/instruments.
The 4 separate sequencers run in the same tempo but can have different length. Also, remember that midiSTEPs breaks the one-note-per-step paradigm, and you can let it play chords etc, it is totally polyphonic (as opposed to some other sequencers/arpeggiators).
That sounds super interesting. So if I understand, it sort of is like Xynthesizr in a way? I will check some youtube videos.
There are several things at play here that can complicate things.
The first one being that the midi implementation of iSEM had problems with midi bindings when it was used as an AU instrument. I am not sure this has been fixed. Then you need to be able to push the midi from midiLFOs to the AU host (midiSTEPs in this case) which in turn need to be able to separate those midi signals from what is sent to control it, the host itself, and what it should push through to the AU...umm...guest app.
After a quick test I would say this isn't actually possible in midiSTEPs/iSEM combo as it stands today.
After having tested with Viking synth as AU in midiSTEPs too, I can't find a way to push the midi messages through to the hosted app. If someone else has any more success, do let us know.
However...(there is always one)...I, personally, have not seen the need for using AU instruments in midiSTEPs. It can't record the audio in any case. I much prefer using the correct tool for the correct job. Therefore, I'm using AUM to host my instrument (IAA/AU/AB). That is also where I'll record it in the end. I then can connect both midiSTEPs and midiLFOs to that app. If I have connected the app via IAA, for example iSEM, I get a full midi learn functionality where is just tap in what number I want what CC on...done.
The problem, again, in AUM is when you use iSEM as AU. Then you have to filter the CC messages in AUM, and push them through to the AU guest instrument, which also need to be able to pick it up.
Long story short: if I wish to use midiLFOs (or any other app that sends CC's) I usually don't use AU instruments, as they still seem to have a way to go, but instead IAA instruments.
In options, set the speed to 1, whole.
This app is different. Think you can do most of what midiSteps can do in Modstep as far as final output is concerned (though I'm not sure how to remotely transpose sequences with modStep). It's more about the how in this case. Or it is for me. This is like a classic auto-advancing step sequencer. You enter a note and the playhead advances one tick. Keep entering notes until you're finished and you have a sequence. Generally a small sequence. Then you can play them back at various clock rates, adjust the sequence start and end, and transpose the sequences in real time for 'berlin school' style electronic music. Completely wonderful app if you're into that sort of thing.
Thanks, i will try
Would be nice to have two isems on different channels and lfo it...
Hey, yes Link is on my to-do list. I just want to see what Apple has decided we will all be doing first since they haven't weighed in yet on Link or implemented in GB. WWDC is mid June, I plan to add it to the next feature update after that assuming they don't tell us to all run in another direction.
I also want to add mapping CCs to AU values so you can use midiLFOs with the AUs in midiSTEPs. Its the set up that's a little tricky and I want to get it right. Again planned for a future feature update, but I agree it would be a nice useful feature.
@artkerns Thanks for your feedback. Any chances for Universal/iPhone support? And MIDI via Bluetooth LE?
+10000000000000000000000000000 I would LOVE to buy an iPhone version or have a Universal support for this app!!!
well really what is he talking about... :? we have Ableton link and bunch of cool apps works together already, probably he don't see it...
He's talking about if Apple adds similar capabilities as Link to iOS 10
Hey again, iPhone support will require a vastly modified UI, but I've been thinking it through. I'd like to add split screen support for iPad as well and am hoping maybe the work could overlap.
MIDI Bluetooth maybe, I don't use it personally, haven't had other requests for it, but will look into it.
Again, with Link: I'm aware of it, I know people want it, and I think it looks useful. As a developer I have to think about longer term implications of adding features and I am being particularly cautious about adding third party libraries to my apps. I have no information that Apple will add something similar other than I wish they would have done so a long time ago, and they haven't added Link to their own apps yet. Realistically I don't think they will, even if I think they should. But I'm holding off on adding big features in general until after WWDC just because you never know what Apple will decide to change with iOS10 and the implications it will have.
I have a feature request list a mile long and every time I add a new feature and check it off, it results in even more feature requests, not one fewer. I'm one guy, this is basically a hobby not a full time job. So I'm trying, it just takes a while and I have to constantly say "I like that idea, but..."
Art - it's an awesome app. On this forum people feel comfortable asking for (sometimes demanding) features but you can only do so much. Single devs like you, Rej from Caustic, Blip from Nanostudio, Jonatan and many others do amazing work. Most of us are more than willing to cut you all the slack you need. As for those that aren't, well....too bad for them.
But well if he talk like this he is in other galaxy of musical apps development... Because if he add future nonexistent apple sync support he will not support link now...
little strange, yes.. but it is his world
i love his apps, for sure... but he rather remove those screen change animations, coz it just takes time to change the screen (and im sure it took time to nail those animations before release)
If you read what he says, with the WWDC coming up soon it doesn't make sense for him to devote the resources to adding Link right now if at WWDC Apple announces iOS-based sync. He is a one-person shop. I think he explained it pretty well.
I'm not so sure that, even if Apple do introduce a new sync technology, people would automatically stop using Link. Especially not Live users. Unless the implication is that Apple would actively cripple Link in iOS10?
Who knows, Apple might even buy Ableton. They do have funds to do that without even breaking a sweat
My point is just that he probably doesn't want to invest the time to update with Link now and then update again soon after if Apple adds a sync function to iOS. Better to do all at once. I'm just suggesting a likely scenario based on his response and implying nothing.