mKer AU

HarlekinX

@axartsoftware said:

Hi, this is Achillefs, developer of mKer - could you please let me know if the issue persists? Thank you!

Hi, i have the same problem. Sometimes notes will not be played although probability is at 1.0
Listen to the Hi-Hat on Lane 3. At the beginning and at 1:10 it gets worse.
The Kick in Lane 2 has misses too.
The Toms use probability, so they behave as expected.
mKer triggers Digistix 2 and Tal-U-No-Lx (disabled in this demo).

catherder

@axartsoftware said:

@Darkstring said:
@axartsoftware Any chance of getting an optional piano roll popup when editing the lanes, instead of having to drag out the notes? At least for me, it's usually easier getting a composition down when it can be drawn and visualized.

Hi, thanks a lot for the input, at this time here is no plan to implement a piano roll view and I do not think that it will be done anytime soon for the simple reason that there are features with higher priority to be developed first. One question: would MIDI in help your workflow when entering notes/chords?

Yes, MIDI step input please.

onlydeals

@HarlekinX said:

@axartsoftware said:

Hi, this is Achillefs, developer of mKer - could you please let me know if the issue persists? Thank you!

Hi, i have the same problem. Sometimes notes will not be played although probability is at 1.0
Listen to the Hi-Hat on Lane 3. At the beginning and at 1:10 it gets worse.
The Kick in Lane 2 has misses too.
The Toms use probability, so they behave as expected.
mKer triggers Digistix 2 and Tal-U-No-Lx (disabled in this demo).

Also having this issue, first note is repeatedly missed, sometimes other notes as well, probability at 1.0

mikejohn

@axartsoftware said:

@mikejohn said:
I wonder if anyone can help me figure this out … I’m having an issue in mKer sequencer where after pushing ‘play’ in AUM, mKer will play through the lanes one whole time before producing any sound from the audio unit it’s routed to. During this first (silent) play through, the notes will light up in the sequencer as if they’re being triggered but no sound comes out until the second go around.

For example, if I have a 16 step lane, playing 1/16 beats, no sound will play until the 2nd measure (or the second time around for that lane). Likewise, if I have another lane with 16 steps playing at 1/2 beats, that lane won’t produce any sound until the 9th bar, etc..

I should note that all of the lane settings in mKer are set to their defaults, so there are no skips, offsets, or probabilities set.

I’d appreciate the help / thoughts if anyone has any .. thanks!

Hi, this is Achillefs, developer of mKer - could you please let me know if the issue persists? Thank you!

Hi Achillefs .. yep, I’m still having the problem with notes missing .. it’s not just on the first step though - seems to be happening on other steps, as well. Probability also set to 1.0

axartsoftware

Thank you all for alerting me to the issue, will start working on it and hopefully come back with some good news.

akeia

Individual steps and the lanes do have settings for play, skip and offset. Setting the lane overwrites the setting in all steps but can then be set individually for each step. The play, skip and offset parameters on main tab seem to override the settings in probability tab.

axartsoftware

Quick update:

• The missing note(s) issue has been identified and a fix has been merged into the coming release (1.7.0) - I do not know how that slipped under the radar so thanks to everybody who brought the issue up!
• The update also includes some major UI/layout changes that can -hopefully- make the workflow faster
• More features, such as step input via external MIDI and randomization are planned and being developed

MrStochastic

@axartsoftware said:
Quick update:

• The update also includes some major UI/layout changes that can -hopefully- make the workflow faster
• More features, such as step input via external MIDI and randomization are planned and being developed

👍🏻

mikejohn

@axartsoftware said:
Quick update:

• The missing note(s) issue has been identified and a fix has been merged into the coming release (1.7.0) - I do not know how that slipped under the radar so thanks to everybody who brought the issue up!
• The update also includes some major UI/layout changes that can -hopefully- make the workflow faster
• More features, such as step input via external MIDI and randomization are planned and being developed

This is exciting!
Any plans for midi learn?

axartsoftware

@mikejohn said:

@axartsoftware said:
Quick update:

• The missing note(s) issue has been identified and a fix has been merged into the coming release (1.7.0) - I do not know how that slipped under the radar so thanks to everybody who brought the issue up!
• The update also includes some major UI/layout changes that can -hopefully- make the workflow faster
• More features, such as step input via external MIDI and randomization are planned and being developed

This is exciting!
Any plans for midi learn?

Yes!

Poppadocrock

Dang this upcoming update and future additions really sound great. Excited.

MrStochastic

New UI looks great! Better clarity helps the workflow.

5k3105

If i open as stand alone, how do i connect it to aum? It shows midi output as aum and network session 1.. but no midi is coming through to aum, rather, aum destination is showing a solid orange line beneath and network 1 shows nothing

mikejohn

@5k3105 said:
If i open as stand alone, how do i connect it to aum? It shows midi output as aum and network session 1.. but no midi is coming through to aum, rather, aum destination is showing a solid orange line beneath and network 1 shows nothing

While I don’t have a direct answer to your question, I’m curious as to why you wouldn’t just open it in AUM and make all of your connections in there.

That’s the most straightforward way that I know and have no issues doing it that way.

5k3105

@mikejohn said:

@5k3105 said:
If i open as stand alone, how do i connect it to aum? It shows midi output as aum and network session 1.. but no midi is coming through to aum, rather, aum destination is showing a solid orange line beneath and network 1 shows nothing

While I don’t have a direct answer to your question, I’m curious as to why you wouldn’t just open it in AUM and make all of your connections in there.

That’s the most straightforward way that I know and have no issues doing it that way.

Just to have a larger screen surface. Aum cuts about 20% of the screen from the top to show bpm, record control and midi and close window bar

mikejohn

@5k3105 said:

@mikejohn said:

@5k3105 said:
If i open as stand alone, how do i connect it to aum? It shows midi output as aum and network session 1.. but no midi is coming through to aum, rather, aum destination is showing a solid orange line beneath and network 1 shows nothing

While I don’t have a direct answer to your question, I’m curious as to why you wouldn’t just open it in AUM and make all of your connections in there.

That’s the most straightforward way that I know and have no issues doing it that way.

Just to have a larger screen surface. Aum cuts about 20% of the screen from the top to show bpm, record control and midi and close window bar

Oh wow … I’m not seeing as big a size difference between standalone and hosting in AUM as that; they actually look about the same. Yes, the standalone has its own header, as you mention, with BPM and transport controls but that header isn’t (and doesn’t need to be) there when the app is hosted in AUM since it’s controlled by AUM’s tempo and transport.

Is your mKer window maximized when hosted in AUM? Or are you just talking when you have mKer opened with other AUs visible, as well? Because if that’s the case, then I totally get where you’re coming from - t’d be great if mKer’s window did a better job of resizing when hosted.

For what it’s worth, after my first reply, I tried various ways of connecting a mKer standalone instance to AUM and other standalone AUs to no avail ..

5k3105

@mikejohn said:

@5k3105 said:

@mikejohn said:

@5k3105 said:
If i open as stand alone, how do i connect it to aum? It shows midi output as aum and network session 1.. but no midi is coming through to aum, rather, aum destination is showing a solid orange line beneath and network 1 shows nothing

While I don’t have a direct answer to your question, I’m curious as to why you wouldn’t just open it in AUM and make all of your connections in there.

That’s the most straightforward way that I know and have no issues doing it that way.

Just to have a larger screen surface. Aum cuts about 20% of the screen from the top to show bpm, record control and midi and close window bar

Oh wow … I’m not seeing as big a size difference between standalone and hosting in AUM as that; they actually look about the same. Yes, the standalone has its own header, as you mention, with BPM and transport controls but that header isn’t (and doesn’t need to be) there when the app is hosted in AUM since it’s controlled by AUM’s tempo and transport.

Is your mKer window maximized when hosted in AUM? Or are you just talking when you have mKer opened with other AUs visible, as well? Because if that’s the case, then I totally get where you’re coming from - t’d be great if mKer’s window did a better job of resizing when hosted.

For what it’s worth, after my first reply, I tried various ways of connecting a mKer standalone instance to AUM and other standalone AUs to no avail ..

Since mker can only be used in wide view, the percentage of screen space taken by aum is noticeable.
Id say it’s actually an aum problem not being able to put an auv3 into full screen,

HotStrange

I’m curious how is everyone here using it? As a regular sequencer to send midi to 1-2 things or in a way similar to Atom/Helium/Xequence where you sequence entire projects with multiple parts and clips? Basically making an entire track.

I’ve had it since release but I’ve yet to fully use it the second way but I’m planning on diving into it more over the next few days. I forget how powerful this one actually is.

mikejohn

@HotStrange said:
I’m curious how is everyone here using it? As a regular sequencer to send midi to 1-2 things or in a way similar to Atom/Helium/Xequence where you sequence entire projects with multiple parts and clips? Basically making an entire track.

I’ve had it since release but I’ve yet to fully use it the second way but I’m planning on diving into it more over the next few days. I forget how powerful this one actually is.

I’m so psyched on this sequencer but I’ve gone in and out with it because of some issue with notes getting skipped here and there but that bug seems to be squashed with the latest update.

Now I’m fully back in and have made it a point to just use mKer as my main sequencer for the time being just to really squeeze everything I can out of it. Been working on a full song where mKer is the main sequencer pushing 5 or 6 AUs with a number of patterns; I also have an instance of fugue and digistix in the mix, so it’s not all totally mKer. This is my first time using it in that capacity but I’m digging it and can totally see myself continuing to use it to make full tracks.

I like that it’s an easy set up - especially after taking a of time to make templates in AUM - and it’s fun to play live. I can get a jam going and spend a couple hours playing it live for my cat.

There’s an immediacy to it - like I don’t feel pulled every which way by a ton of features - what you see is what you get and to me that’s a huuuge strength, plus, pro, whatever for the app. That’s not to say it doesn’t have depth, but it has just what it needs to keep me in it (with midi learn on the road map).

Anyway man .. it’s dope and I’m psyched. After a few conversations with the developer, I can say this app is only going to get better.

HotStrange

@mikejohn said:

@HotStrange said:
I’m curious how is everyone here using it? As a regular sequencer to send midi to 1-2 things or in a way similar to Atom/Helium/Xequence where you sequence entire projects with multiple parts and clips? Basically making an entire track.

I’ve had it since release but I’ve yet to fully use it the second way but I’m planning on diving into it more over the next few days. I forget how powerful this one actually is.

I’m so psyched on this sequencer but I’ve gone in and out with it because of some issue with notes getting skipped here and there but that bug seems to be squashed with the latest update.

Now I’m fully back in and have made it a point to just use mKer as my main sequencer for the time being just to really squeeze everything I can out of it. Been working on a full song where mKer is the main sequencer pushing 5 or 6 AUs with a number of patterns; I also have an instance of fugue and digistix in the mix, so it’s not all totally mKer. This is my first time using it in that capacity but I’m digging it and can totally see myself continuing to use it to make full tracks.

I like that it’s an easy set up - especially after taking a of time to make templates in AUM - and it’s fun to play live. I can get a jam going and spend a couple hours playing it live for my cat.

There’s an immediacy to it - like I don’t feel pulled every which way by a ton of features - what you see is what you get and to me that’s a huuuge strength, plus, pro, whatever for the app. That’s not to say it doesn’t have depth, but it has just what it needs to keep me in it (with midi learn on the road map).

Anyway man .. it’s dope and I’m psyched. After a few conversations with the developer, I can say this app is only going to get better.

Thanks, yeah I really like the app as well. mLFO from the same dev is also great and really easy to set up. Kinda the same as this app in that it could be the only LFO you ever needed.

I’m planning on attempting a full song with it soon myself. Idk why I have done it sooner. I always underestimate this one until I’m using it again and realize how powerful it really is. Would love to hear the track when it’s done if you feel like posting here!

mikejohn

@HotStrange said:

@mikejohn said:

@HotStrange said:
I’m curious how is everyone here using it? As a regular sequencer to send midi to 1-2 things or in a way similar to Atom/Helium/Xequence where you sequence entire projects with multiple parts and clips? Basically making an entire track.

I’ve had it since release but I’ve yet to fully use it the second way but I’m planning on diving into it more over the next few days. I forget how powerful this one actually is.

I’m so psyched on this sequencer but I’ve gone in and out with it because of some issue with notes getting skipped here and there but that bug seems to be squashed with the latest update.

Now I’m fully back in and have made it a point to just use mKer as my main sequencer for the time being just to really squeeze everything I can out of it. Been working on a full song where mKer is the main sequencer pushing 5 or 6 AUs with a number of patterns; I also have an instance of fugue and digistix in the mix, so it’s not all totally mKer. This is my first time using it in that capacity but I’m digging it and can totally see myself continuing to use it to make full tracks.

I like that it’s an easy set up - especially after taking a of time to make templates in AUM - and it’s fun to play live. I can get a jam going and spend a couple hours playing it live for my cat.

There’s an immediacy to it - like I don’t feel pulled every which way by a ton of features - what you see is what you get and to me that’s a huuuge strength, plus, pro, whatever for the app. That’s not to say it doesn’t have depth, but it has just what it needs to keep me in it (with midi learn on the road map).

Anyway man .. it’s dope and I’m psyched. After a few conversations with the developer, I can say this app is only going to get better.

Thanks, yeah I really like the app as well. mLFO from the same dev is also great and really easy to set up. Kinda the same as this app in that it could be the only LFO you ever needed.

I’m planning on attempting a full song with it soon myself. Idk why I have done it sooner. I always underestimate this one until I’m using it again and realize how powerful it really is. Would love to hear the track when it’s done if you feel like posting here!

Yeah .. will do!

Yuriy1981

Can mker do something that midistep can't? Or do they duplicate each other?

ejacul337

What a great update. I hope LEO or Gav cover the recent update.

The update added a genre randomization feature, it’s pretty fun. Plays great in drambo and AUM. Leo’s video shows the previous build in drambo. A great tutorial.

Thx Axart and Leo

Slush

I agree, great update with the genre randomization!

ejacul337

Yeah, been having a blast with it. The GM drum mapping is fantastic, the genre randomization is pretty awesome. Would love to see that in Octochodone.