http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7IxbYDggMw
This video, via Audio Damage, Inc, is a demo of the new Audio Damage Sequencer 1 for Eurorack modular synths, a new step sequencer, inspired by the Elektron Analog Four.
The video demonstrates Sequencer 1’s ability to drive Hz/V and S-Trig gear.
Technical Details. via AD:
Sequencer 1 is being driven from the Silent Way Sync plug-in in Ableton Live via an Expert Sleepers ES-4. (The orange module you see to the left of the sequencer.)
Pitch is set to Hz/V, and Gate is set to Inv Gate (Yamaha monosynths use an inverse gate, not an S-Trig gate. Seq 1 will send all three flavors: normal, inverted, and S-Trig.)
Pitch and Gate are patched directly to the Yamaha CS-5’s “Control Voltage” and “Trigger” inputs. The CS-5’s output is sent directly back to Ableton Live.
The drums are from Audio Damage Tattoo.
Once the sequencer is running for a moment, as you can see in the video, we start hitting the REP and RAT buttons on Seq1. The buttons are labeled REP 8, REP 4, REP 2, REP 1, and RAT 2 and RAT 4. They repeat the last 8, 4, 2, or 1 steps, or ratchet the current step 2 or 4 times. These can also be controlled via control voltage to Seq1’s “CV1” or “CV2” inputs, and RAT 1 and RAT2 can also be programmed per note.
Pricing and availability are to be announced.
I feel like a stuck record, regards sequencers. Those of us into midi sequencing on pcs , really could do with a simple sequencer like how cubase was on the atari. Even better would be a physical object
that offered piano roll, grid edit etc. I live in hope for that machine, as I watch bloat ware get more stupid, my mates spending thousands to run daw after daw.
Great to see this video , but one day I hope we see a midi sequencer for midi sequencer, polyphonic,etc
I actually agree with you. I’ve always prefered the immediacy of a hardware MIDI sequencer to a DAW, and it seems that hardware MIDI sequencing is still stuck in 1992. Perhaps this is something we’ll apply some R&D to in the future.
This is off topic, Chris, but is there a future for Phaedra?
I’d live to see it developed further. I’d pay to get features like a per note probability slider that controls whether a note plays, and something similar for ratcheting.
brandonacab@hotmail,com Chris please keep me posted of any midi only sequencer developments. I use cubase in the same way as I did in the late 80s, but now its unstable, doesn’t sync well (doesn’t syn at all to midi clock )and all the commands take time , it is a mess to use and ten times if not 50 times slower to set up. I have taught music tech, I get vinyl out etc been into all this for lots of years. I would pay decent money for a decent midi only sequencer. Have spoken to some programmers about sequencer issues .
For gods sake please leave me out of the ableton, reason etc etc etc bloat ware rubbish discussions. What happened to cubase as a midi only sequencer. I saw a really complicated step sequencer recently , but was a really drag to use.
well, there is Seq24, which is basically just a simple midi sequencer, with the ability to launch midi clips like ableton does
http://www.filter24.org/seq24/
I would check out numerology if you havent. It sequences external gear like a champ, works with silent way, is polyphonic, can host plugins but that feels less like its focus. it can even be run as a plugin. It also has a lemur template and support for the launchpad.
You should check out sequentix circlon! It’s more of a step sequencer, but you can do a lot with it. It’s expencive, but worth every penny if a hardware sequencer is what you want. http://www.sequentix.com/cirklon.htm