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GlitchStep has been released!
I am working on finishing the last touches on the UI and looking to go into beta in the next few days for my new app GlitchStep.
GlitchStep is my take on a monophonic 16 step, step sequencer. I have long been looking for the perfect little step sequencer that lets me Jam with it, turning steps on and off without either removing them from the sequence, or resetting their note values, also since I have built in 8 patterns and 8 slices, which are re-arrangements of the steps, similar to the grid editor in GlitchCore. And of course there is a Glitch button and slider, that adds some chaos.
I will have more details, some screens and some videos soon, but I just wanted to get a measure of who might be interested in the beta. I will be either revitalizing my slack or using a discord server for beta signup and communication.
I am looking forward to seeing what everyone thinks.
Send me a message if you are interested.
Alex
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@amatheu pretty much use your apps in every other comp. I AM SOOOOOO INTERESTED!!!
Hey, this is exciting news!
I've come to realise it's a bit too much work to be a somewhat serious beta tester but I do hope you get a few committed souls to help you out.
I’m definitely interested. Is this anything like the Glitchmachine project @amatheu? https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/43167/early-prototype-of-glitchmachine-by-alex-matheu
or is that still on hold or scrapped?
GlitchMachine is a different animal and I hit a wall with it and bounced off, but plan at some point to revisit it, GlitchStep is my first midi auv3.
Here is a better description of GlitchStep
GlitchStep is a monophonic step sequencer auv3 with 16 steps. I created it because for a long time I have been looking for the perfect little step sequencer that was tuned to my workflow. The main feature that I was looking for was to be able to set the notes on all 16 steps, but then toggle the steps on and off without either removing them from the sequence or erasing the note information. I found a couple apps that could do this but ran into other limitations like octave range.
I took this jammability concept further by adding a slice grid to it, similar to what is in GlitchCore, where you can create slice patterns to rearrange the steps on the fly. I also added a Glitch button and slider that lets you add some chaos to the sequence.
It is really geared for performing with the sequence and has randomization for both patterns and slices. For patterns you can set steps, notes, gate, velocity, and randomize or shuffle 1 or more of these (shuffle keeps your setting but shuffles the order).
For slice randomization it uses the same randomization algorithm as GlitchCore making more intelligent grid runs when randomizing.
There are playlists for both patterns and slices, and you can dynamically change the current list index while playing.
It has copy and paste, and pattern and slice shifting (4 directions for slices)
It has lots of built in scales, and you can change the key, octave range, minimum octave, rate, step direction, step start and end, and of course midi channel.
Sounds interesting! I wonder if it would be possible to allow custom scales? Perhaps in a similar way to Kai Aras's Harmonicer, letting the user tap to toggle possible notes on/off.
Possibly, although for this version I am locking in a feature set to get through beta. I currently have an extensive list of scales, but they are just arrays, and I could easily add more, but don't have a feature for letting a user add custom ones in place.
During the beta, any scales I am missing, could easily be added though.
This is the current scale list.
Chromatic
Major
Minor
Harmonic Minor
Dorian
Phygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Locrain
Algerian
Arabic
Augmented
Byzantine
Chinese
Diminished
Egyptian
Enigmatic
Geez
Hawaiian
Hindu
Hirajoshi
Hungarian
Iberian
Iwato
Japanese
Neapolitan
Oriental
Prometheus
Romanian
Spanish
Yo
I am not quite ready to share a full picture yet because I am working to wrap the UI up but here are some teasers for how it is coming along (with a WIP disclaimer). Oh and I forgot to mention I have support for themes, but need to add the theme picker still.
I wanted to add that I am making the UI fully responsive, and this is a universal iOS app.
Could we add:
Pentatonic Major
Pentatonic Minor?
Fr> @craftycurate said:
Sure!
From what I can tell
Pent Major should be [2, 2, 3, 2, 3]
Pent Minor should be [3, 2, 2, 3, 2]
I am using this for reference
https://pianoscales.org/pentatonic.html
Would it be possible (or viable) to aim this at modular folks as well?
Like a mode where audio ports could be utilised to interface eurorack?
It is a midi auv3 or sometimes called midi effect or processor. The only way I see this possible is if you have something that is doing the midi to CV conversion. I believe this should work but would need something do do that for it, I will test it with my Mavis, Beatstep and AUM
This thing looks awesome man! A lot of people could potentially enjoy this one.
Seems like a strait forward way to get some patterns to break up some of the repetition!
Looks great. A bit like a “virtual Korg SQ-1” on steroids. I would love to see an option to clock this app not only via host sync, but with note or CC messages that advance the sequencer a given number of steps per note/CC. Or every X of these virtual clock pulses.
The ‘Bassline’ scale - as appears in Jim Audio’s Pure Acid would be very welcome too I think. I’m not sure how to describe it properly. Maybe you have this app already? Or perhaps someone could describe it. I haven’t seen it anywhere else before - but it is excellent. It’s only three notes too.
A question, @amatheu : By "Minor", does this means a natural minor scale? If so, do you also have ascending melodic minor somewhere, probably under a different name?
"Phygian" should be spelled with an r — "Phrygian".
Excited to learn more about this! 👍
Hi @Artj,
Thanks for the typo correction!
For Minor I have [2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2]
Which is a Natural Minor
I realized my harmonic minor was actually a melodic minor, fixed that
So now I have all 3
hMinor: [2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 3, 1]
mMinor: [2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1]
Thank you for that!
I am using this for reference
https://pianoscales.org/minor.html
This sounds really good. My vote too for user defined scales at least at some point.
Any chance to be Mac (Apple silicon) compatible?
My goal is to make it a Mac Catalyst app as well assuming I don't hit any serious issues during testing with that. If I do, then I would put the work in to making it a native plugin at some point, although I don't think you can do a universal version that is not Catalyst if I am not mistaken.
Cool. I'm enjoying a few iPad apps in Logic on my MacBook Air.
In any case I am looking forward to this.
Did you notice my suggestion about the ‘bassline’ scale @amatheu? Just not sure if you saw it or not - I imagine it would be very useful, possibly more so than some of the ones already listed. What do you think?
I am not sure what the bassline scale is, sorry I did see it, and did open Pure Acid to figure out where it is, but have been getting a lot of message lately. Can you point me where to look, or give me the semi notes for the scale like this?
For example Major is [2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1]
It looks like it's just [7, 3]
Sorry, I haven’t a clue what the numbers mean.
@robosardine it's the number of semitones to generate the notes starting from the root (right, @amatheu?). From what I can tell, root C generates C, G, A#; root D generates D, A, C; root G generates G, D, F, etc., i.e. the root plus notes 7 and then 3 semitones apart.
Thank you - that sounds like it will probably be right 😛
Got it, thank you.
It is the semitones and it actually becomes [7, 3, 2]
It counts the semitones to get back to the root note, always equals 12.
I added it, and when the key is set to C it is locked to C, G, A#
Check out that scale
Would love to beta if still needed!