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Roland Zenbeats by Roland Corporation (Auv3)

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  • SergiuSergiu

    Thank you guys!

  • SamuSamu

    Last day to get Zenbeats for free (for now), get it if you haven’t already :)

  • tahichetahiche

    @tahiche said:
    Hi!
    Yet another question for Zen gurus here.
    I’m really confused about recording synths/fix automation. Can’t figure it out. I’ve looked around for video tutorials and can’t find it.
    I mean recording knob/parameter movement live. In 2 ways:

    • physical controller (Midi learn?)
    • UI knob tweak (AUV3 plugin controls vs Zenbeats parameter display).
      As far as I recall Zenbeats is picky about what it will record and you have to do a few “preps”. I’m pretty sure I’ve recorded automation before, I can’t tell if it’s me or some dude in a video anymore!!.
      Cheers!

    Sorry for insisting....
    Any good tutorial on recording live automation?.

  • anicktanickt

    @tahiche said:

    @tahiche said:
    Hi!
    Yet another question for Zen gurus here.
    I’m really confused about recording synths/fix automation. Can’t figure it out. I’ve looked around for video tutorials and can’t find it.
    I mean recording knob/parameter movement live. In 2 ways:

    • physical controller (Midi learn?)
    • UI knob tweak (AUV3 plugin controls vs Zenbeats parameter display).
      As far as I recall Zenbeats is picky about what it will record and you have to do a few “preps”. I’m pretty sure I’ve recorded automation before, I can’t tell if it’s me or some dude in a video anymore!!.
      Cheers!

    Sorry for insisting....
    Any good tutorial on recording live automation?.

    I can’t make any videos for a week or so but what I do is MIDI learn whatever parameters I want to record (chosen on the parameters page not the effect interface) and then hit record and tweak away. Just make sure Overdub MIDI is enabled. It is by default. That’s really all there is to it. You can’t tweak from the AU interface yet.


  • SergiuSergiu

    Thanks Anickt! Where is that setting placed for overdub midi? Do you access it from parameter view page?

  • wimwim
    edited August 2020

    To add to the above, you can record automation from the screen on the AU parameters page as well. You don't necessarily have to midi-learn a controller.

    nvm - it doesn't work this way.

  • anicktanickt
    edited August 2020

    @Sergiu said:
    Thanks Anickt! Where is that setting placed for overdub midi? Do you access it from parameter view page?

    Tap on the little grid icon after tapping the arrow next to tempo

  • SergiuSergiu

    Thx!> @anickt said:

    @Sergiu said:
    Thanks Anickt! Where is that setting placed for overdub midi? Do you access it from parameter view page?

    Tap on the little grid icon next to tempo

  • anicktanickt

    @wim said:
    To add to the above, you can record automation from the screen on the AU parameters page as well. You don't necessarily have to midi-learn a controller.

    I can’t. ☹️ How do you do that?

  • SergiuSergiu

    ( and we thought Octatrack is deep menu diving...) :smiley:

  • wimwim

    Eh? I'm sure I did it that way before! I haven't for awhile. Let me go check if it still works or not.

  • wimwim

    Well, crap, either my memory is faulty or it no longer works. Probably my memory. Sorry for the confusion.

  • anicktanickt

    @wim said:
    Well, crap, either my memory is faulty or it no longer works. Probably my memory. Sorry for the confusion.

    The confusion is there anyway! 🤪🤪🤪

  • tahichetahiche

    @wim said:
    Well, crap, either my memory is faulty or it no longer works. Probably my memory. Sorry for the confusion.

    Same memory here... I'd swear I've done it like this. No wonder I couldn't get it working.
    So to record automation you absolutely need a mapped hardware device . Right?. Sort of weird.
    Thanks @anickt

  • anicktanickt

    @tahiche said:

    @wim said:
    Well, crap, either my memory is faulty or it no longer works. Probably my memory. Sorry for the confusion.

    Same memory here... I'd swear I've done it like this. No wonder I couldn't get it working.
    So to record automation you absolutely need a mapped hardware device . Right?. Sort of weird.
    Thanks @anickt

    They have directly told me they are working on automation and they’ve been steady on updates so hopefully by end of year it’ll be a whole new Zenbeats. That’s my prediction anyway! 🤣

  • WillWill

    @anickt said:

    @Sergiu said:

    @syrupcore said:
    Is it possible to record MIDI CC automation from a hardware controller to a MIDI track? Is it possible to have it captured automatically when recording notes (without specifying anything first ala Cubasis)?

    +1

    Yes but you do have to MIDI learn whatever parameters you want to control. That takes a second.

    Thank you, sorry for my delay in replying but just getting hooked back up to try this tonight.

    Alas, I'm confused. How do you MIDI learn an external CC?

    Just to make sure I’m ‘splainin my trouble correctly:

    1. I’m trying to record and send external CC messages (to/from a hardware synth)
    2. I have loaded an “Instrument” track
    3. I have not set an instrument for the track
    4. I have mapped the input/output ports and channel correctly
    5. I can capture and send notes
    6. I can send manually added CCs
    7. I’m looking for a way to capture and send CCs
    8. MIDI learning cc42 to send cc42 seems goofy but I’m up for it!
    9. I try to find a way to do that but end up back here on the forum...
  • SergiuSergiu

    You load your instrument track ( auv3 I suppose) and after its main screen you go to that 4 square menu button and open up... choose view parameter list, midi learn and touch the parameter you want to control, after move your knob/slider. It should work.

  • reasOnereasOne

    a few things that make zenbeats great

    1 clip launching
    2 when in time line mode you can make changes to one bar and have it auto duplicate across many bars
    3 sliding up and down on a note in the piano roll adjusts velocity
    4 sliding right or left in piano roll auto fills in steps and changes notes to triplets
    5 recording midi fx into clips or timeline
    6 the master channel buttons switch each tracks view from volume/audio fx/ send fx all at once
    7 set the scale for each track
    8 lots of color options for the gui
    9 record clips into the time line

    and more but those are some of my fav features

  • DMfanDMfan

    Please give us Zenology in Zenbeats!

  • bleepbleep

    Let's say you record to timeline a short loop clip, resulting in N repeats of the pattern on the timeline. You then draw some track automation spanning these N blocks. Is it possible to get the result back as a (longer) loop clip in loop mode? I tried some variations with "break up", glue, copy/paste, print track automation to pattern etc., but wasn't able to get the longer pattern back as a clip in loop builder.

  • anicktanickt

    @bleep said:
    Let's say you record to timeline a short loop clip, resulting in N repeats of the pattern on the timeline. You then draw some track automation spanning these N blocks. Is it possible to get the result back as a (longer) loop clip in loop mode? I tried some variations with "break up", glue, copy/paste, print track automation to pattern etc., but wasn't able to get the longer pattern back as a clip in loop builder.

    Easiest is to create a longer pattern in the first place or create a new long pattern and copy paste the contents of the short pattern.

  • DarSwanSwedeDarSwanSwede

    @reasOne said:
    Cool
    A lot of things about this look exactly like stagelight, kinda strange... Just about to try it out

    It Is Stagelight. Roland bought them and integrated the synth into the ZenCore product as the host along with the original DAW structure. I recently purchased the ZenCore Ultimate package and was playing with it heavily on my iPad... so a few weeks ago I sprung for the $150 Ultimate package. It unlocked the Whole FLipin Store!!! Seriously. All the loops and Plugins. Now this unlocks certain pieces such as the new ZenCore packs. But to get the secret sauce its grabbing Zencore from that and it unleashes their new ZenCore Engine that is the same in Jupiter X and Xm. Anyways... sorry... Got to Files in the iPad and find the ZenBeats folder... dig down to ZenBeats User/temp look in the folder. You will see the Stagelight wrappers, labels, and structure all there. They didn't even bother to rename it.

  • DarSwanSwedeDarSwanSwede

    Wow..use it a lot...and... lol in the temp folder are the raw sample sounds... On the iPad.. and you can move them from the temp folder to your own folder for safe keeping. I gotta get to work.. lol...

  • JeezsJeezs

    @anickt said:

    @Sergiu said:

    @syrupcore said:
    Is it possible to record MIDI CC automation from a hardware controller to a MIDI track? Is it possible to have it captured automatically when recording notes (without specifying anything first ala Cubasis)?

    +1

    Yes but you do have to MIDI learn whatever parameters you want to control. That takes a second.

    Have you succeed to send cc to external device? dunno how to proceed

  • JeezsJeezs

    Anyone succeed to use Octachtron with Zenbeats?

  • SergiuSergiu

    I only controlled parameters inside Zenbeats iOS environment ( midi mapping) never tried to control external synths inside Zenbeats and cc’s of that synth

  • eineruntervieleneineruntervielen

    midi out plays patterns on external synth

  • JeezsJeezs
    edited August 2020

    @eineruntervielen said:
    midi out plays patterns on external synth

    Pattern are played without any problem, but no CC for me .
    It used to work using BeatHawk as a midi plugin but doesn't work anymore since the two last versions. Hope they allow cc recording and playback soon.

  • tahichetahiche

    I’m getting horrible crackels and pops, the timeline staggers. Very frustrating.
    Tried freezing tracks to no avail, even when soloing tracks, the timeline staggers, cracks, pops, out of sync... Im using Roxsyn guitar synth, NuRack, Nembrini amp, Ting and ZB drums. 5 audio tracks and 2 midi drums. It’s unusable. It just started at some point and won’t go away. Tried restarting, changing buffer to longer values, rescanning plugins, as I said I froze everything... nothing.
    I would expect freezing tracks to be very light on cpu load, but it’s like something is “stuck” somewhere in the background (not very technical, I know).
    ¿Has this happened to anyone?. ¿How do you go about debugging this kind of glitchy behavior?.

  • Ozzy57Ozzy57

    Hi all, seems that Zenbeats only imports 0 type Midi Files, however a great little app I have called Piano Motifs only exports type 1 Midi Files, making it impossible to load them into Zenbeats, my question is: does anyone know of an iOS midi file type “converter” or does Roland plan to expand the midi file import possibilities?

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