Yes, this is one of the areas in which the Keystep Pro is unique.
This is how you do it:
LEDs above the keys will show you the notes of which this chord consists.
We now want to sustain one of the notes in the chord.
Let's say the top one.
Here's how you do it:
You can make the sustained notes more pronounced by also making their velocity value higher.
This is how you do it:
- Select a track and activate sequence mode
- Hold 'Shift' and verify that the Keystep Pro is in Polyphonic mode (the LED above note E2 should be lit)
- Press step-edit and select step 1, play a chord
- Press step 6, play a chord.
- Play the sequence, you should hear two chords alternating with fairly short sustain times.
These sustain are the result of the default gate times which are set at 0.5
- Press step 1 and touch the gate knob. The display will show the current gate time of the notes in the chord.
By default, this has a value of 0.5.
LEDs above the keys will show you the notes of which this chord consists.
We now want to sustain one of the notes in the chord.
Let's say the top one.
Here's how you do it:
- Press the highest note of the chord: it will light up to show it's selected, the other notes in the chord will dim.
- Turn the Gate encoder right until it displays a value of around 20.
- Now select the second chord stored in step 6 and lengthen the middle note of the chord stored there, by selecting it and setting the gate value to 40.
- Now play the sequence and hear how the two notes we have changed are sustained in the chords.
You can make the sustained notes more pronounced by also making their velocity value higher.
Yes.
Press the step-edit button and select the chord you want to edit.
The LEDs above the keys will tell you which notes the chord consists of.
Press the note you want to edit and touch the velocity button.
The current value of the selected note is displayed on the info screen.
Change its velocity value to your liking.
Repeat this for the other notes in the chord.
While it's selected you can edit all other properties of the note such as gate length, pitch, time shift and randomness.
The LEDs above the keys will tell you which notes the chord consists of.
Press the note you want to edit and touch the velocity button.
The current value of the selected note is displayed on the info screen.
Change its velocity value to your liking.
Repeat this for the other notes in the chord.
While it's selected you can edit all other properties of the note such as gate length, pitch, time shift and randomness.
This can be a puzzling phenomenon; you connected an oscillator/envelope generator/VCA
on your eurorack system to the CV outputs and play a sequence.
For some reason, some steps are muted... How come?
Here's what happens:
When you press play the first step of the sequencer will trigger the envelope generator/VCA
and the sound of the oscillator will be audible.
The sequencer advances to the next step and again triggers the Envelope generator/VCA, but...
the envelope generator has not yet finished its cycle so it ignores this second trigger.
Again the sequencer advances and this time the EG/VCA responds because its cycle has finished.
AD and ADSR envelop generators respond differently to triggers.
An AD envelop generator will finish its cycle no matter the length of the gate that triggered it.
An ADSR envelope generator will remain in the sustain phase of the envelope for as long as the gate remains high.
This difference may explain why sequences play the way they do.
on your eurorack system to the CV outputs and play a sequence.
For some reason, some steps are muted... How come?
Here's what happens:
When you press play the first step of the sequencer will trigger the envelope generator/VCA
and the sound of the oscillator will be audible.
The sequencer advances to the next step and again triggers the Envelope generator/VCA, but...
the envelope generator has not yet finished its cycle so it ignores this second trigger.
Again the sequencer advances and this time the EG/VCA responds because its cycle has finished.
AD and ADSR envelop generators respond differently to triggers.
An AD envelop generator will finish its cycle no matter the length of the gate that triggered it.
An ADSR envelope generator will remain in the sustain phase of the envelope for as long as the gate remains high.
This difference may explain why sequences play the way they do.
By creating a gate pattern that combines long and short gates, you can make certain steps sound longer.
When, in polyphonic mode, you create a step with a long gate followed by several steps with a shorter gate, the step with the long gate will continue to sound over several steps.
Quick edit mode is ideal for creating such sustain patterns.
A clever timesaver is to create a gate/pitch/velocity pattern that combines long and short gates/velocities in the first steps and copy these steps to other parts of the sequence on the same or another page.
In quick edit mode, new notes you enter in the sequence will have the most recently used pitch, gate, velocity time-shift and randomness value.
This makes it easy to create a pattern: set initial values for pitch, gate and velocity and create steps in the sequence with these values.
Now create other values for pitch, gate and velocity and create steps in the sequence with these new values.
Voila; there's your pattern.
When, in polyphonic mode, you create a step with a long gate followed by several steps with a shorter gate, the step with the long gate will continue to sound over several steps.
Quick edit mode is ideal for creating such sustain patterns.
A clever timesaver is to create a gate/pitch/velocity pattern that combines long and short gates/velocities in the first steps and copy these steps to other parts of the sequence on the same or another page.
In quick edit mode, new notes you enter in the sequence will have the most recently used pitch, gate, velocity time-shift and randomness value.
This makes it easy to create a pattern: set initial values for pitch, gate and velocity and create steps in the sequence with these values.
Now create other values for pitch, gate and velocity and create steps in the sequence with these new values.
Voila; there's your pattern.
Yes, that is possible.
Hold 'Shift' and press invert (step5).
The name invert is also used in DAW to indicate mirroring a MIDI sequence: the highest pitches become the lowest and the lowest the highest.
In Keystep Pro lingo 'invert' means: play the last steps first and the first step last.
Hold 'Shift' and press invert (step5).
The name invert is also used in DAW to indicate mirroring a MIDI sequence: the highest pitches become the lowest and the lowest the highest.
In Keystep Pro lingo 'invert' means: play the last steps first and the first step last.
Yes.
Whenever you create a step by holding a note, pressing a step to assign it to and change the Gate/Velocity values, these values become the new default values and will be remembered when you create another step and be applied to it.
Whenever you create a step by holding a note, pressing a step to assign it to and change the Gate/Velocity values, these values become the new default values and will be remembered when you create another step and be applied to it.
No(t yet).
A workaround could be to create a dummy track with sixteen steps and edit the velocity of successive steps.
Step 1 could start on velocity 50 and increase velocity with 5 for each next step.
You could then copy/paste this velocity pattern when you need to create a crescendo.
Use 'invert' on this pattern to create a diminuendo dummy pattern.
A workaround could be to create a dummy track with sixteen steps and edit the velocity of successive steps.
Step 1 could start on velocity 50 and increase velocity with 5 for each next step.
You could then copy/paste this velocity pattern when you need to create a crescendo.
Use 'invert' on this pattern to create a diminuendo dummy pattern.
No, but you can make space in a pattern by nudging steps to another location in the pattern.
Say you have a brilliant chord sequence in the first 4 steps but want to insert 3 other chords before them.
It's easy: hold "Shift", press 'nudge' three times and insert the chords in the now-empty first three positions.
Say you have a brilliant chord sequence in the first 4 steps but want to insert 3 other chords before them.
It's easy: hold "Shift", press 'nudge' three times and insert the chords in the now-empty first three positions.
No. When recording the Keystep Pro will loop indefinitely.
The fastest fix is to clear the steps by holding 'Shift' + 'Clr Steps' and try again.
On startup, the Keystep Pro will always be in overdub mode when recording.
That means that whatever you play will be added to what has been recorded in the previous recording loop.
If you want to delete/overwrite something you've recorded in the loop, set the tempo to (very) low, unselect 'Overdub' and record/erase over the offending steps.
If it's just one step that you want to edit :
The fastest fix is to clear the steps by holding 'Shift' + 'Clr Steps' and try again.
On startup, the Keystep Pro will always be in overdub mode when recording.
That means that whatever you play will be added to what has been recorded in the previous recording loop.
If you want to delete/overwrite something you've recorded in the loop, set the tempo to (very) low, unselect 'Overdub' and record/erase over the offending steps.
If it's just one step that you want to edit :
- Press stop to end real-time recording.
- Hold 'erase' and erase the step which you want to delete.
- Press 'Step Edit' and press the step you want to edit.
- Insert the correct chord in the step and edit the Velocity and Gate values to match those of the real-time recording.
Yes, quick edit mode is ideal for that.
Make certain record mode and Step Edit mode are not active.
Let's create a sequence in which the velocity values alternate between soft and loud.
The even steps are loud the uneven steps soft.
Here's how you do it:
Now set velocity to 60.
Fill the even steps with other pitches. Each step you add will have a velocity value of 60.
When now you playback the sequence the volume will alternate between loud and soft each time the sequencer advances.
Remember that in quick edit mode, as used above, new notes you enter in the sequence
will have the current pitch, gate, velocity time-shift and randomness value.
Make certain record mode and Step Edit mode are not active.
Let's create a sequence in which the velocity values alternate between soft and loud.
The even steps are loud the uneven steps soft.
Here's how you do it:
- Select an empty sequence
- Set velocity to 120
- Hold a key and press step 1
- Hold another key and press step 3
- Continue to fill the uneven steps with notes of a velocity value of 120
Now set velocity to 60.
Fill the even steps with other pitches. Each step you add will have a velocity value of 60.
When now you playback the sequence the volume will alternate between loud and soft each time the sequencer advances.
Tip
Remember that in quick edit mode, as used above, new notes you enter in the sequence
will have the current pitch, gate, velocity time-shift and randomness value.
Yes, in both cases the procedure is the same: select the chord/step in step edit mode and add the note.
The note will be in edit mode automatically and you can edit its values while it's selected.
The note will be in edit mode automatically and you can edit its values while it's selected.
Yes.
This is the default behaviour.
If it does not restore to the same state it had before you switched it off, you'll have to update the Firmware.
This is the default behaviour.
If it does not restore to the same state it had before you switched it off, you'll have to update the Firmware.
Yes.
Each pattern can run in its own time division.
When you save a track, the time division of the pattern is saved with it.
When you create a chain with patterns in different time divisions the patterns in the chain will maintain their original time division.
You cannot save the chain separately, but you can store the current chains in a scene.
When you save the project, the scenes and the chains stored in it will be saved.
Each pattern can run in its own time division.
When you save a track, the time division of the pattern is saved with it.
When you create a chain with patterns in different time divisions the patterns in the chain will maintain their original time division.
You cannot save the chain separately, but you can store the current chains in a scene.
When you save the project, the scenes and the chains stored in it will be saved.
Select Mono by holding 'Shift' + Eb (Sequencer/Drum Mode/Mono) on the keyboard.
When recording in MONO mode the Keystep Pro will allow you to store one note in a step.
Whether it is in Quick Edit, Step Edit and Real Recording mode.
This makes it easier to record bass lines.
New patterns you create in MONO mode will always record with Overdub OFF.
If you're updating from an older firmware version in which you recorded patterns in MONO with overdub ON, you'll notice that the Overdub button will still be lit. Overdub will however not work.
When recording in MONO mode the Keystep Pro will allow you to store one note in a step.
Whether it is in Quick Edit, Step Edit and Real Recording mode.
This makes it easier to record bass lines.
New patterns you create in MONO mode will always record with Overdub OFF.
Note
If you're updating from an older firmware version in which you recorded patterns in MONO with overdub ON, you'll notice that the Overdub button will still be lit. Overdub will however not work.
Holding 'Shift' and turning one of the five encoders will apply a relative offset to all steps contained in the sequence for a parameter.
The offset can be positive or negative.
If for example you Hold 'Shift' and turn the Velocity encoder to the right the value you dial in will be added to the velocity value of all steps in the sequence.
Turning the encoder to the left will subtract values.
The Keystep Pro will display the amount of added/subtracted velocity.
Global offset has no effect on the pitches in the drum track, but it will affect Gate, Velocity, Time Shift and Randomness.
The offset can be positive or negative.
If for example you Hold 'Shift' and turn the Velocity encoder to the right the value you dial in will be added to the velocity value of all steps in the sequence.
Turning the encoder to the left will subtract values.
The Keystep Pro will display the amount of added/subtracted velocity.
Global offset has no effect on the pitches in the drum track, but it will affect Gate, Velocity, Time Shift and Randomness.
Use Time Shift to offset notes in a step from each other.
This emulates strumming or finger-picking a guitar chord.
Used in tandem with copying/pasting steps you can create very intricate sequences.
This emulates strumming or finger-picking a guitar chord.
Used in tandem with copying/pasting steps you can create very intricate sequences.
If you have any further questions, feel free to contact us.