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  • @DMan said:

    @kinkujin said:
    Success! Decided to hook up my Minilogue and send a sequence from ModStep to it. The display made it easy to show that I was indeed on midi channel 1. So good, I know that it is a setting on the Volca (likely midi channel) I need to change. Bought it used so I guess someone had fiddled with settings.

    Thanks for all the help. I’m off and running ...

    Make sure the volca is powered off, hold memory, power it on, select one of the first 1-16 “key” for for channel, then hit record and I’m pretty sure that is how. At least that is what my memory is telling me.

    DMan ! thanks I'll give it a go. I had thought earlier, that I needed to google that, and of course forgot.

  • Anyone knows the sate of Modstep 2, is it still develloped?

  • @Jeezs said:
    Anyone knows the sate of Modstep 2, is it still develloped?

    Developer posted recently, in a thread about another of their apps, that it was next to work on basically.

  • edited October 2018

    ...

  • 2 quick questions...

    • can Modstep record incoming aftertouch data?
    • How can I include the first track when I import a midi file? It’s so tedious after import to delete that default track 1 and then rename all others. Is there a workaround?

    Cheers

  • @SpookyZoo said:
    2 quick questions...

    • can Modstep record incoming aftertouch data?
    • How can I include the first track when I import a midi file? It’s so tedious after import to delete that default track 1 and then rename all others. Is there a workaround?

    Cheers

    Huh. Dont seem to have aftertouch on these keys.

    Easier to use the copy function after import to move everything left. Then delete the right most tracks. Copies the track names iirc.

  • edited October 2018

    @Multicellular said:

    @SpookyZoo said:
    2 quick questions...

    • can Modstep record incoming aftertouch data?
    • How can I include the first track when I import a midi file? It’s so tedious after import to delete that default track 1 and then rename all others. Is there a workaround?

    Cheers

    Huh. Dont seem to have aftertouch on these keys.

    Easier to use the copy function after import to move everything left. Then delete the right most tracks. Copies the track names iirc.

    Thanks for reply.

    How would I go about copying all tracks, I only seem to be able to copy one clip at a time. And I have 15 tracks x 8 clip sections?

    cheers

  • edited October 2018

    Giving up on this app.

    Xequence > Modstep.

    Fact :)

  • edited October 2018

    ... deleting my rant. I know some of you guys love this app.

  • @SpookyZoo true it's not perfect, but it's also far away from a bad app...
    Also true that copy/paste of tracks might be improved in many ways.

    That said, Xequence is really cool and complete my workflow perfectly...

  • @crony said:
    @SpookyZoo true it's not perfect, but it's also far away from a bad app...
    Also true that copy/paste of tracks might be improved in many ways.

    That said, Xequence is really cool and complete my workflow perfectly...

    It's always just a frustrating experience. Crashes/No Undo/No Development. Still come back every few months to give it an umpteenth chance. but, yeah....grrr.

  • For the crash it's weird...the last I had was zooming very highly into a pattern editing and adding weird CC's to control external gears.
    But it's extremely rare, to me it's super stable.
    But I use it only as a midi sequencer, no AUv3 or anything loaded into Modstep but midi.

  • @crony said:
    For the crash it's weird...the last I had was zooming very highly into a pattern editing and adding weird CC's to control external gears.
    But it's extremely rare, to me it's super stable.
    But I use it only as a midi sequencer, no AUv3 or anything loaded into Modstep but midi.

    Yeah I only experiment with midi in Modstep.

    However, last crash was neither midi or audio. It was simply hitting "New Project"! :(

  • edited October 2018

    I think they’ve been pretty busy with Touchable pro but hopefully they’ll be back on Modstep soon. For midi recording and piano roll arranging, looks like Xequence has the edge. But for me for composing, Modstep is far better with the step sequencer and clip triggering.

    I also haven’t used it in a while so maybe there’s some iOS 12 bugs not addressed.... :)

  • Hmm...Right Modstep does not record aftertouch...Something to ask on their todo... ;)

  • edited October 2018

    @SpookyZoo said:

    @Multicellular said:

    @SpookyZoo said:
    2 quick questions...

    • can Modstep record incoming aftertouch data?
    • How can I include the first track when I import a midi file? It’s so tedious after import to delete that default track 1 and then rename all others. Is there a workaround?

    Cheers

    Huh. Dont seem to have aftertouch on these keys.

    Easier to use the copy function after import to move everything left. Then delete the right most tracks. Copies the track names iirc.

    Thanks for reply.

    How would I go about copying all tracks, I only seem to be able to copy one clip at a time. And I have 15 tracks x 8 clip sections?

    cheers

    If you select the copy icon, and then select the track header you can copy the whole track ? I think, it's been a little while.

  • @AndyPlankton said:
    If you select the copy icon, and then select the track header you can copy the whole track ? I think, it's been a little while.

    Yes. And I just double checked, it does copy the track name.

  • edited October 2018

    @AndyPlankton said:

    If you select the copy icon, and then select the track header you can copy the whole track ? I think, it's been a little while.

    @Multicellular said:

    Yes. And I just double checked, it does copy the track name.

    Yeah, found this too cheers. Unfortunately it still means that I need to change all of the track names so no time saved. ☹️

  • @Carnbot said:
    I think they’ve been pretty busy with Touchable pro but hopefully they’ll be back on Modstep soon. For midi recording and piano roll arranging, looks like Xequence has the edge. But for me for composing, Modstep is far better with the step sequencer and clip triggering.

    I also haven’t used it in a while so maybe there’s some iOS 12 bugs not addressed.... :)

    Out of interest, how do you find it helps your composing?

  • @SpookyZoo said:

    @Carnbot said:
    I think they’ve been pretty busy with Touchable pro but hopefully they’ll be back on Modstep soon. For midi recording and piano roll arranging, looks like Xequence has the edge. But for me for composing, Modstep is far better with the step sequencer and clip triggering.

    I also haven’t used it in a while so maybe there’s some iOS 12 bugs not addressed.... :)

    Out of interest, how do you find it helps your composing?

    I'm not Carnbot, but I'll tell you for me. Absolutely not a knock again Xequence, I would even recommend it for linear midi work, but
    I like the pattern, loop, based work for initial composing. I find it a lot easier in those writing stages to just keep on infinite, and then when lyrics are done, etc., I type in the number of repeats. Easier than cut and pasting imho.

    Plus it hosts AUs so I can tweak my sound design all in one file per song.

    Last, I don't do dance music. I need tempo changes in songs. Xequence does not have those.

  • @SpookyZoo said:

    @Carnbot said:
    I think they’ve been pretty busy with Touchable pro but hopefully they’ll be back on Modstep soon. For midi recording and piano roll arranging, looks like Xequence has the edge. But for me for composing, Modstep is far better with the step sequencer and clip triggering.

    I also haven’t used it in a while so maybe there’s some iOS 12 bugs not addressed.... :)

    Out of interest, how do you find it helps your composing?

    I really like the step sequencer and you can quickly copy and paste and move parts around whilst still playing with it, also using active step mode is really interesting. Arranging parts on the fly I find can be very quick compared to other sequencers. Having said that I have taken a break from Modstep and don't use it exclusively. I only wish Modstep had it's own AU extension without the hosting so then it could be easily hosted in AUM/apeMatrix etc

  • @Multicellular Thanks

    @Carnbot I took a quick look at the step sequencer. This could be interesting. If I recorded my midi using Xequence with its benefit of a better piano roll and then bring into Modstep for experimentation.

    One quick question...

    • How do I get other pattern numbers to be the focus of the step sequencer? The white highlight box and steps all seem to be fixed on Pattern number one? Cheers.

  • edited October 2018

    @SpookyZoo said:
    @Multicellular Thanks

    @Carnbot I took a quick look at the step sequencer. This could be interesting. If I recorded my midi using Xequence with its benefit of a better piano roll and then bring into Modstep for experimentation.

    One quick question...

    • How do I get other pattern numbers to be the focus of the step sequencer? The white highlight box and steps all seem to be fixed on Pattern number one? Cheers.

    You mean the focus of the white highlighted box? If you hold the box for a brief moment the focus will shift to that part.
    Yeah. Once you have the midi in there, being able to drag/copy the parts around in the step sequencer and turn parts on and off is a great way to experiment I think. I'm not a big fan of composing in piano rolls myself. So this gives me a better method, but you can always switch to the piano roll view when needed.

    You can also stick it on "chase" mode so the focus always keeps up with the timeline, which can be useful sometimes too.

  • @Carnbot said:

    @SpookyZoo said:
    @Multicellular Thanks

    @Carnbot I took a quick look at the step sequencer. This could be interesting. If I recorded my midi using Xequence with its benefit of a better piano roll and then bring into Modstep for experimentation.

    One quick question...

    • How do I get other pattern numbers to be the focus of the step sequencer? The white highlight box and steps all seem to be fixed on Pattern number one? Cheers.

    You mean the focus of the white highlighted box? If you hold the box for a brief moment the focus will shift to that part.
    Yeah. Once you have the midi in there, being able to drag/copy the parts around in the step sequencer and turn parts on and off is a great way to experiment I think. I'm not a big fan of composing in piano rolls myself. So this gives me a better method, but you can always switch to the piano roll view when needed.

    You can also stick it on "chase" mode so the focus always keeps up with the timeline, which can be useful sometimes too.

    Thanks a lot. This was helpful. :)

  • @SpookyZoo said:
    @Multicellular Thanks

    @Carnbot I took a quick look at the step sequencer. This could be interesting. If I recorded my midi using Xequence with its benefit of a better piano roll and then bring into Modstep for experimentation.

    One quick question...

    • How do I get other pattern numbers to be the focus of the step sequencer? The white highlight box and steps all seem to be fixed on Pattern number one? Cheers.

    Some other ways to switch focus.
    *If you long press the focus pattern, top middle, you can then jump to any pattern.
    *> @SpookyZoo said:

    @Multicellular Thanks

    @Carnbot I took a quick look at the step sequencer. This could be interesting. If I recorded my midi using Xequence with its benefit of a better piano roll and then bring into Modstep for experimentation.

    One quick question...

    • How do I get other pattern numbers to be the focus of the step sequencer? The white highlight box and steps all seem to be fixed on Pattern number one? Cheers.

    A couple other ways to change focus:
    *Select the scene and track
    *in piano roll, step etc. use the up down left right arrows

  • Good stuff, thanks. Will give this a go tonight.

  • @DMan said:

    @kinkujin said:
    Success! Decided to hook up my Minilogue and send a sequence from ModStep to it. The display made it easy to show that I was indeed on midi channel 1. So good, I know that it is a setting on the Volca (likely midi channel) I need to change. Bought it used so I guess someone had fiddled with settings.

    Thanks for all the help. I’m off and running ...

    Make sure the volca is powered off, hold memory, power it on, select one of the first 1-16 “key” for for channel, then hit record and I’m pretty sure that is how. At least that is what my memory is telling me.

    Ok so, took the day off today and decided to give this a go. Good memory @DMan ! That did it. Really appreciate your help.

  • @AndyPlankton thanks, I forgot about the full copy of a track or a scene very helpful :)

    Does anyone knows how to erase a midi map ??? I can reassign, but I wanted to "clean" it, nothing assigned, to makes things cleaner...And avoid bad messages...

  • @crony said:
    @AndyPlankton thanks, I forgot about the full copy of a track or a scene very helpful :)

    Does anyone knows how to erase a midi map ??? I can reassign, but I wanted to "clean" it, nothing assigned, to makes things cleaner...And avoid bad messages...

    Use the edit/delete/ hit the midi map button itself

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