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Any way to move the "playhead" in Modstep?

markkmarkk
in General App Discussion

Playhead = song position line = cursor.

Pretty sure the answer is no, but anyway.

When editing bar 12 of a clip in pattern view or piano-roll and I want to change something in bar 5, I often wish I could just drag the playhead with my finger or even press a rewind button. But no such amenities exist in MS, correct?

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  • gonekrazy3000gonekrazy3000

    Just enable bar 12 and bar 5. That way the play head will jump between those 2. Or enable just bar 5. It's not exactly what you wanted but the closest you can get currently...

  • markkmarkk

    @gonekrazy3000 D'oh! Thanks.

  • gonekrazy3000gonekrazy3000

    You're welcome :)

  • markkmarkk

    Hey @gonekrazy3000 this is spooky. I was just watching one of your MS vids on youtube when you answered.

    So is the general consensus that it's better to host AU's in AUM than in MS? Seems like extra hassle. Wouldn't controlling iSEM be easier from within MS?

  • gonekrazy3000gonekrazy3000

    @markk said:
    Hey @gonekrazy3000 this is spooky. I was just watching one of your MS vids on youtube when you answered.

    So is the general consensus that it's better to host AU's in AUM than in MS? Seems like extra hassle. Wouldn't controlling iSEM be easier from within MS?

    That is quite a coincidence lol.

    Its more that i prefer how you can route audio in AUM. Not to mention all its fantastic dynamics processing tools like stereo width, stereo=> mono, etc.

    Also you cant send audio to buses in modstep. but in Aum you can smash different channels together by sending to a bus and then applying effects on it all as a group. that way i can apply compression to "glue" together my drums and bass and also apply reverbs to my lead instruments together etc.

    Also Modstep is super stable if you don't add things to it like audio processing. Its never crashed on my when i use it for purely midi. and this way even if AUM crashes i don't need to reload modstep. That being said for some stupid reason iSEM doesnt seem to remember what preset it was on when used as an AU and also doesn't take tempo from the host so i mostly use it just as an IAA now till they fix it. much prefer Viking or Enkl currently.

    lastly another reason i use AUM is cause i use modstep to sequence external synths like my Volcas or to trigger long samples in AUMS fileplayer since modstep doesn't support long samples. you can actually see it in my modstep contest entry:-

  • markkmarkk

    Thanks @gonekrazy3000 .

    All good reasons. What about Modstep's claimed ability (which I haven't investigated properly yet) to produce sample-accurate renderings of patterns when you freeze (not an actual freeze as it's done in real time using the cassette icon somehow, correct)? Isn't that functionality lost when hosting outside of MS?

  • gonekrazy3000gonekrazy3000

    @markk said:
    Thanks @gonekrazy3000 .

    All good reasons. What about Modstep's claimed ability (which I haven't investigated properly yet) to produce sample-accurate renderings of patterns when you freeze (not an actual freeze as it's done in real time using the cassette icon somehow, correct)? Isn't that functionality lost when hosting outside of MS?

    Hmmm. I rarely ever use the freeze function in most daws so I honestly don't know if it matters to me tbh.

  • wimwim

    @markk said:
    Hey @gonekrazy3000 this is spooky. I was just watching one of your MS vids on youtube when you answered.

    So is the general consensus that it's better to host AU's in AUM than in MS? Seems like extra hassle. Wouldn't controlling iSEM be easier from within MS?

    I don't know about consensus, but it's absolutely my method. Four times now I've been burned by projects that fail to open because ModStep fails to auto-load some plugin. As the option to not load IAA plugins doesn't currently work, every project I load an IAA into is a potential ModStep killer. Once I had to re-install and lost templates I hadn't backed up. Once I managed to recover by very, very quickly deleting the project and all auto-backups. Twice I solved it by temporarily uninstalling the app that was causing the crash.

    I'm sure the ModStep developers will fix all that, but I will still load things externally anyway, for several reasons. My most efficient and stable workflow is to host everything I can as inputs in AudioBus, and all FX and AUs in AUM in the AudioBus output. This gives me state saving, easy app switching, global transport control, and AudioBus Remote if I want it. And ModStep is completely stable this way.

  • markkmarkk

    @gonekrazy Ok, will experiment and report my findings.

    I've just finished a two week holiday in which my goal was to settle on a definitive iPad workflow. For sequencing I've bounced around from Auria to Cubasis to Modstep, around and around. Due to the current (does it ever stop?) bout of Gadget fever I even tried my best to come to grips with that app, but we're just not simpatico.

    I think I've settled on Modstep. I apologize in advance for all the newbish questions that you may be peppered with in the near future. :p

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