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Best Hardware sequencer EVER
https://www.google.com/amp/www.synthtopia.com/content/2018/05/26/pyramid-sequencer-3-0-sneak-preview/amp/
Oh please iOS Gods .. Fetch us thee a miracle . I can wait ..
Will we ever see anything comparable in iOS?
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what are your favorite features ?
yes, it is an incredible machine!
with the new os, it has become my dream machine. It is so flexible and so fun to use. the live looper mode is so fun. Each track can send cc, program changes etc, so a sequence can be quite complex if you want it to be. what I really love about it is that once it's set up with AUM, I can just hit record and create midi loops on the fly and build a piece up. Add midi effects as I go, removing any notes or adding drum accents in the step mode, add some lfos, arpeggiators, etc, transpose any selected tracks from a master controller, add several automation lanes from external controllers.. each track capable of being completely polyrhythmic, polymetric, or in a euclidean rhythm.
I love being able to make something from nothing very quickly, all without having to touch the computer or ipad. I input notes from a keyboard controller and then program all the midi in the Pyramid.
It's funny that so many people are willing to spend significant amounts of time with hardware but refuse the same with software solutions, even under IOS with it's rather direct approach to control.
Imho the Pyramid box is far from intuitive with it's double hold buttons and menu control, on which you obviously got to have an attentive view. No chance to operate in blind mode
@Telefunky : Oh no doubt . No one ever said it was intuitive . It takes time to learn .. Jist wondering, are you visually. Impaired/blind? Because then , yeah it would be difficult . I just think it’s the high water mark and in ten years time ios will def ha e something like this if not five or six . I just posted to show what’s possible, that’s all. Maybe a developer is watching
@kobamato ; I like the midi fx , the echo., etc. on the new version I like the idea of the newer arp styles. I also like the feaux guitar strumming styles, the randomizer, not to mention the Eiclidean rhythms that I don’t quite grasp yet . I like the polyrhythm thing too.
@palm : Wow , you’ve got it down!!
The best hardware sequencer :
I just fail to see the outstanding advantage of this box, of course limited by that single prerealease (?) video. It kind of reminded me on my Roland SP808.
We both agree on the main aspect, which is learning (by doing) and not start the box up, fiddle around a bit and then say ... boo, not my cup of tea.
I'm far from talking the Pyramid device down, and often find things in IOS 'sequencers' not that great in workflow context, too.
Imho 'workflow' is the most neglected part in almost all software today, including desktop.
The focus is on flashy visuals and millions of options.
When i was looking for a hardware based sequencer solution i was seriously jonesing for the Pyramid.
After months and months of research i ultimately chose the Octatrack because of its sequencing and sampling capabilities.
Love it to this day. But the Pyramid still has a special spot in my heart.
The new five12 Eurorack sequencer also looks amazing.
What about the Synthstrom Deluge?
Oh, for those innocent days of iPad-only app purchases, when I had zero idea what GAS stood for....
thanks, I'm always interested in how people are getting into the Pyramid, it's one of those things I can see in my future albeit distantly
yeah saw that, was hoping 512 would put out a more desktop friendly design as well
Instrument definitions are a beautiful addition. It's making me wanna sell my Digitakt. Well, not the definitions alone, obviously! MIDI wise, the only thing I'd miss are the trig conditions. The Pyramid seems better at MIDI sequencing in just about every other way.
Consolidate is a big'n too. You can load a track with MIDI FX and then consolidate (bounce/render) to a new track and stack more effects on.
I don't quite get what the Polymetric MIDI Looping update is but I'm a little turned on when I see those three words together, can't lie. @palm could you explain this one?
pretty sic, makes one wonder when someone will get promoted for the suggestion they add a sampler to those sequencer features.
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/squarp-instruments-pyramid is a good overview though it's for an older OS.
The new 3.0 feature list: http://squarp.net/PYRAOSV3.pdf
The list of instrument definitions already created by the community is impressive! http://squarp.community/c/def
/GAS
Came along a maybe interesting sequencer for whoever is looking for one: https://twisted-electrons.com/product/crazy8beats/
Not that expensive (no one's money is growing at a tree) but still quite useful I think.
Twice the price of the Pyramid (and a year wait!) but if we're talking best ever, can't really leave out the Cirklon. Might just be me but I love the DOS 3.2 feel of the thing screen. Also has instrument definitions.
And a gillion track effects, including interesting ways for tracks to affect other tracks.
Also a very simple demo of polyrhythmic sequencing. Nothing flashy (kick and a single note), but illustrates how it works (in any sequencer that supports it, including Quantum) and how it's different from polymetric sequencing. From 0:45 to 2:55
It's actually kind of amazing how much of the Cirklon territory @midiSequencer has managed to cover in Quantum. Including a lot of the "Gang" functions described in this one starting at 1:30 (aka "select" in Q). Would be sweet to see the recurring pattern based ganging described at around 4:10.
@syrupcore noted - added to my list!
Sweet. Thank you! You're gonna need another room in your house to store that list soon.
smart box, I like the straight approach
The live looper mode can be set to start and stop recording on beat divisions rather than bar divisions, thus you can quickly create polymetric sequences just by recording two or more tracks of different lenghths. Say 20 beats on one and 22 and 1/16th on another. Great for doing phasing arpeggios and such.
working through them now - plus exploring AUv3 midi
Delicious. Thanks for the explanation. Do you have to set the track lengths in advance or can you set the loop point on the fly (like audio loopers)?
you can do it either way. You can turn the looper off and have each track set to specified lengths, or with looper on, you can set it to loop to either the nearest beat or the nearest bar (bear in mind each track can be in its own time signature/meter).
Thanks @syrupcore .. That’s crazy! I didn’t know (Cirklon)
This is what I did a surprising amount of the more decent late-90s computer-less output of mine on:
Here it is hooked up to the SH-09. The battery is now replaced, everything’s tidied up, and it is all still up in the attic, unused. I really should sell both units.
The downside is that it doesn’t accept a DIN-24 clock input, only acting as a master. It can sync to the Roland drum machines which have the required clock and start/stop jacks such as a CR-78 – a normal jack, accepting a very high-rate clock (960ppqn). I’ve never done that as I never had a drum machine with such clock out (I was using it with a TR-808 back then, which doesn’t have that high-rate clock, and I no longer have that). However, as a master clock (which even my Mac slaved to for the midi tracks on the midi-mute mixer I was using (Tascam MM-1)), I always felt the CSQ-600 lent a more organic (ie less accurate) feel to the tempo. I preferred that.
Hi @Palm, Interested in how you are using AUM to record the midi?
Deluge and nothing else
You don't wonder what hides behind a row of buttons.
You have a zoomable piano-roll, p-locks, conditions. WIth OS v.2.0 song mode its more or less like Ableton Live.