Modstep 1.1

Tones4Christ

Yes please videos will be so awesome!

Philippe

Nice update indeed but still some improvement possible in the buttons/fonction/layout sphere.
The edit buttons (copy, pencil, delete) Are ones that I use the most, but now hide other buttons... I prefered the way they were before, always accessible, not getting in the way of other buttons.
And I need badly to be able to start and stop the current clip from any screen, and also while the keyboard is on.
Basic items of a straight forward workflow imho. But this is only 1.1, isn't it?

Halftone

After further play - update is great! IAA instruments that wouldn't load before or crashed now seem to work well. And tried recording a IAA loop - went smooth. Also made a kit with a few drum samples loaded via AUdioshare. And the AU implementation is great too! No real issues I've run into yet

I finally feel like I can dedicate some time and get down to making music with Modstep finally!!!

Tones4Christ

Guys if I just got Modstep is getting iMachine 2 overkill? I just recently got iMPC pro and learning that buy iMachine is tempting. Will I be able to do everything in Modstep?

Philippe

Would be nice to be able to slide the keyboard up and down from the keyboard itself. I find the keyboard switch a bit tiny and far, and since the keyboard has become the main playing surface, and that it is hiding useful stuff on the screen, it would be a good compromise to make it easily come up and down by a gesture or sliding bar from the down portion of the screen, where playing fingers are already.

Judochopjames

Agreed, the audio loop recording works much better now to the point where it feels useable, you can load a sampler up with loops and have each clip trigger a different loop. Still would be nice to have modstep record an audio loop directly into a clip, basically just automating the process.

@Halftone said:

After further play - update is great! IAA instruments that wouldn't load before or crashed now seem to work well. And tried recording a IAA loop - went smooth. Also made a kit with a few drum samples loaded via AUdioshare. And the AU implementation is great too! No real issues I've run into yet

I finally feel like I can dedicate some time and get down to making music with Modstep finally!!!

Judochopjames

@Tones4Christ said:
Guys if I just got Modstep is getting iMachine 2 overkill? I just recently got iMPC pro and learning that buy iMachine is tempting. Will I be able to do everything in Modstep?

I don't have impc pro but imaschine still has one of the most useable interfaces of any beat making app, you really can't play modstep the way you can play imaschine.

perestroika

this is an amazing update! but i have two issues with using au's - it wont remember vikings presets and kq mini synth only plays on the left channel! checked them with aum, since its the only other app that supports AU that i have and both dont have this issue.

i have an air2 with the latest os9

otherwise, its an insane update!

Aphex

@Nerk_ said:
@Aphex : all the Volcas (except for the Volca FM, but that´s coming soon) are available with all there CCs in modstep. But it´s also very easy to create your own template if there is some piece of gear you are missing.

Thanx for the info, is all i need for bought it!!

Telstar5

@cblomert : When you update the piano roll and release some additional tutorial videos, EVERY one will get this.. Siri Pro, AUM , Modstep and Gadget are the Mainstays of iOS music these days. Great job!

Telstar5

Can u imagine this thing a year from now?

AudioGus

HMmmm, I can longer sync Modstep to my Circuit. The tempo just instantly shoots way or way down. All I am trying to send is clock data too and am sending or receiving nothing else.

firejan82

Loving the tempo and scale/key change of the scenes awesome feature adition.

mireko_2

is 22.99$ the sale price (australian app store)?

[Deleted User]

@mireko_2 said:
is 22.99$ the sale price (australian app store)?

Yep, used to be 30 AUD

JohnnyGoodyear

@Telstar5 said:
Can u imagine this thing a year from now?

That's why I bought it today.

mireko_2

@yug said:

@mireko_2 said:
is 22.99$ the sale price (australian app store)?

Yep, used to be 30 AUD

thanks, just bought

Carnbot

I've been using Modstep a lot recently with zero issues I can recall of. But I'm using only as a sequencer, I only host in AUM. so perhaps most of the issues are IAA related.

hellquist

@AndyPlankton said:
I have said elsewhere on here that the combination of ModStep, blocs wave, AUM and Launchpad allows me to work in may different ways, enabling a workflow to suit the material I am producing at the time but using the same basic tools, which means once I've learned it, it goes towards anything I will do in the future. These four apps are the scaffolding that I can use to build anything I want.

Right, that made me curious, and I've been "off the grid" for a couple of weeks, but have you gotten that 4-app workflow described in another thread?

RUST( i )K

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@supadom said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@supadom said:
Got it. No regrets whatsoever. Smooth performance so far. Couldn't get MS pads to control sounds in elastic drums nor dm1. Isem works as expected though.

Interested in how far you take it as it says here in your file that you're a mad looping bastard.

Looping yes, sequencing not. I'd love to assimilate this matrix - style but we haven't evolved as far yet and imminent house move means I can only dabble with the shallow end of this.. Also the lack of (or my inability to find) any serious tutorial videos makes this a bit of a tap and see kind of exercise. So far I've managed to get some grooves going but the CC section leaves me totally wide eyed. I probably should consult the manual.

This UI definitely needs muscle memory type of learning. It in many ways reminds me of the old pal Beatmaker 2, which once learned, became my absolute best friend and we spent many happy months together. During the time when there was time.

I have no doubt some serious tutorial material is going to drop soon.

I hear you (on a number of fronts). Would certainly welcome some straightforward 'This Is Block A, This Is Block B' videos. I am taken with @Reid's approach to Drum Perfect Pro, perhaps there is some other patient teacher out there willing to flex their skills in the service of the numbskulls etc.

Ditto.

Its not the neural horsepower, its just I have so many other things and/or apps going on I cannot dedicated days to "learning" one app when it essentially is just a new way of doing the same thing I already do. Fanfare aside, I think this app looks cool as hell, I just wish I had true video manual for it. I had this app since day one since it and Cream came out.

Till this day I just never really got use out of either. Probably on me really.

I need to be able to pull tutorial up, do a piece step by step from inception shadowing the tutorial vid and then repeat x 1 and be ready to go.

Tones4Christ

I agree. It took me 1hour to get it to recognize my midi controller, although it was selected, and the midi ins wee blinking for each track. I think it was me, but it finally worked, bit it only played drum samples no matter what track I selected. Man, this wild mustang gonna take a while to tame.

Michael_R_Grant

I can see why tutorial videos up until now wouldn't have been particularly useful, given how much has changed in terms of design of the app since the early beta. But now they would really, really be super-helpful and would definitely help to spread the word about this app as well as relieve some frustrations.

Tones4Christ

To make matters worse I don't even remember what I did to make it work. Please videos please? Like simple stuff like, how to record your first midi track. Or setting up midi controller.
Thanks in advance.

supadom

@RustiK said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@supadom said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@supadom said:
Got it. No regrets whatsoever. Smooth performance so far. Couldn't get MS pads to control sounds in elastic drums nor dm1. Isem works as expected though.

Interested in how far you take it as it says here in your file that you're a mad looping bastard.

Looping yes, sequencing not. I'd love to assimilate this matrix - style but we haven't evolved as far yet and imminent house move means I can only dabble with the shallow end of this.. Also the lack of (or my inability to find) any serious tutorial videos makes this a bit of a tap and see kind of exercise. So far I've managed to get some grooves going but the CC section leaves me totally wide eyed. I probably should consult the manual.

This UI definitely needs muscle memory type of learning. It in many ways reminds me of the old pal Beatmaker 2, which once learned, became my absolute best friend and we spent many happy months together. During the time when there was time.

I have no doubt some serious tutorial material is going to drop soon.

I hear you (on a number of fronts). Would certainly welcome some straightforward 'This Is Block A, This Is Block B' videos. I am taken with @Reid's approach to Drum Perfect Pro, perhaps there is some other patient teacher out there willing to flex their skills in the service of the numbskulls etc.

Ditto.

Its not the neural horsepower, its just I have so many other things and/or apps going on I cannot dedicated days to "learning" one app when it essentially is just a new way of doing the same thing I already do. Fanfare aside, I think this app looks cool as hell, I just wish I had true video manual for it. I had this app since day one since it and Cream came out.

Till this day I just never really got use out of either. Probably on me really.

I need to be able to pull tutorial up, do a piece step by step from inception shadowing the tutorial vid and then repeat x 1 and be ready to go.

Funny you should say that. I bought cream on release and completely disliked it, from UI to sound it produced. I did a euro return on that .

Modstep feels quite different. UI is nice and clean but as any major app it requires time. No instant gratification other than for the visuals.

This makes me think that maybe at this point in the digital evolution all apps should have the simplicity of the Garage Band with an 'advanced' button that gives you access to the guts should you wish.

Having said that I hated the latest version of logic's UI so much that I downgraded it back to 9.

Tones4Christ

Agree 100%! An advanced button that would allow the app to expand all advanced features but otherwise it would start off in a very clean simple way, with no extra stuff only the very simple for newbies. I would really love that option.
By the way, how do you start with a clean project?

@supadom said:

@RustiK said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@supadom said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@supadom said:
Got it. No regrets whatsoever. Smooth performance so far. Couldn't get MS pads to control sounds in elastic drums nor dm1. Isem works as expected though.

Interested in how far you take it as it says here in your file that you're a mad looping bastard.

Looping yes, sequencing not. I'd love to assimilate this matrix - style but we haven't evolved as far yet and imminent house move means I can only dabble with the shallow end of this.. Also the lack of (or my inability to find) any serious tutorial videos makes this a bit of a tap and see kind of exercise. So far I've managed to get some grooves going but the CC section leaves me totally wide eyed. I probably should consult the manual.

This UI definitely needs muscle memory type of learning. It in many ways reminds me of the old pal Beatmaker 2, which once learned, became my absolute best friend and we spent many happy months together. During the time when there was time.

I have no doubt some serious tutorial material is going to drop soon.

I hear you (on a number of fronts). Would certainly welcome some straightforward 'This Is Block A, This Is Block B' videos. I am taken with @Reid's approach to Drum Perfect Pro, perhaps there is some other patient teacher out there willing to flex their skills in the service of the numbskulls etc.

Ditto.

Its not the neural horsepower, its just I have so many other things and/or apps going on I cannot dedicated days to "learning" one app when it essentially is just a new way of doing the same thing I already do. Fanfare aside, I think this app looks cool as hell, I just wish I had true video manual for it. I had this app since day one since it and Cream came out.

Till this day I just never really got use out of either. Probably on me really.

I need to be able to pull tutorial up, do a piece step by step from inception shadowing the tutorial vid and then repeat x 1 and be ready to go.

Funny you should say that. I bought cream on release and completely disliked it, from UI to sound it produced. I did a euro return on that .

Modstep feels quite different. UI is nice and clean but as any major app it requires time. No instant gratification other than for the visuals.

This makes me think that maybe at this point in the digital evolution all apps should have the simplicity of the Garage Band with an 'advanced' button that gives you access to the guts should you wish.

Having said that I hated the latest version of logic's UI so much that I downgraded it back to 9.

AndyPlankton

@hellquist said:

@AndyPlankton said:
I have said elsewhere on here that the combination of ModStep, blocs wave, AUM and Launchpad allows me to work in may different ways, enabling a workflow to suit the material I am producing at the time but using the same basic tools, which means once I've learned it, it goes towards anything I will do in the future. These four apps are the scaffolding that I can use to build anything I want.

Right, that made me curious, and I've been "off the grid" for a couple of weeks, but have you gotten that 4-app workflow described in another thread?

I will use a different workflow depending on what type of track I am producing. These 4 apps are adaptable enough that I can use them in many different ways and moving a particular job between the apps as and when i need to.

I am at work at the moment, but over the weekend I will attempt to describe some examples of workflows that I will use.

pierre

@cblomert

loving modstep, although, I have a question about the piano roll behavior:

is it normal that when you press on a note to move it around, the note move toward the opposite, like an aircraft stick (left if you move on the right and down if you move up) ?

is this a bug ? if no, is there an option to go back to a normal behavior ?

pierre

AndyPlankton

@Tones4Christ said:
To make matters worse I don't even remember what I did to make it work. Please videos please? Like simple stuff like, how to record your first midi track. Or setting up midi controller.
Thanks in advance.

You will need to arm the track for midi to make it to the instrument from the input.

hellquist

@AndyPlankton said:
I will use a different workflow depending on what type of track I am producing. These 4 apps are adaptable enough that I can use them in many different ways and moving a particular job between the apps as and when i need to.

I am at work at the moment, but over the weekend I will attempt to describe some examples of workflows that I will use.

Thanks, that'd be great, if you have the time. Have been exploring various apps in a similar set-up a bit myself, based on the awesomeness of both ModStep and AUM, so was curious on how you set up Blocs and Launchpad to have it integrate (if they do). Just from cursory looks it looks like a nice qua-mbo (as opposed to combo, which is 2) but I have yet to find if Blocs or Launchpad will respond to external (app) midi control in any way.

For example, it looks like there is an IAP for Launchpad for midi sync out, but I have yet to find if I could midi learn the transport controls in Blocs/Launchpad or indeed if I can start/stop clips to play (or record, where applicable) controlled from for example ModStep. I shall keep digging though. I should probably purchase Blocs, it helps when trying to work out functionality.

AndyPlankton

@Tones4Christ said:

Agree 100%! An advanced button that would allow the app to expand all advanced features but otherwise it would start off in a very clean simple way, with no extra stuff only the very simple for newbies. I would really love that option.
By the way, how do you start with a clean project?

Select the file icon top right, then select New from just below it.
Remember to save your current project first though.