I'm planning to use the Beatstep Pro as follows: The PC will be the master clock and they would be linked via USB. For Sequence 1 or 2, setting probability at maximum and a randomness of just 1 changed almost every note but identical values made little obvious impact on a drum pattern. The Arturia Beatstep Pro, arguably the best sequencer available for eurorack systems and in fact synthesizers in general.

From there, you can keep recording overdubs until you perfect your riff, toggling steps on or off as you go. The Arturia BeatStep Pro is a powerful, compact hardware step sequencer and pad controller designed to control software instruments, analogue and digital synthesizers, drum machines and more.

Anytime I hit play in Logic you could hear the constant zzzzzzzzzzzzzz in the monitors from it coming through the Nord's outputs. The information obtained through cookies allows us to compile ad performance statistics and serve ret If someone had told me three years ago that hardware step sequencers were about to become one of the hottest gear trends, I probably would have recommended a good therapist or at least asked what they were drinking. Andertons Music Company is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, firm registration number 716155. That’s essential for such a fantastic device, because it will be hard to stop using it once you start!

There’s no user control over whether notes, velocities, lengths or triggers are to be randomised; the results are a mixture of all these attributes. This is probably a good place to explain how it is possible to have the Beatstep Pro output a polyphonic sequence. And if that's not enough, there's a third drum sequencer with pads and eight analog drum-gate outputs to do TR? The knobs are designed for the onboard sequencing of the unit, and don't work well when MIDI controlling other parameters. You can configure the Beatstep Pro as a regular hardware controller loaded with DAW and MIDI commands.I use it like that and the only thing I can complain about that it is not possible to set note priority through the cv/gate. For interfacing with older analog gear, there are pitch, velocity, and gate outputs on 1/8'' mini jacks for each sequencer. The MIDI channels default to 1, 2 and 10 for the three tracks respectively, but are easily changed direct from hardware. According to a mod on Arturia’s forums, “wait until the end before switching pattern” was enabled months ago in betas.

Patterns can be played backward and in back and forth fashion, but the same issue applies- as soon as you change the direction, you’ll lose sync with the other sequences. Here, you have 16 discrete drum sequences that can be composed in real-time or via the step sequencing row. It’s thanks to this extensive connectivity that the Beatstep Pro is able to span generations of gear, sequencing CV or MIDI, in the box or out. It takes power from the USB port so if you are getting a ground loop (not the BSP’s fault) and you want to keep it connected to a computer, using the Y adapter is the only way. The pitch CVs can operate in either volt-per-octave or Hertz-per-volt mode, allowing them to integrate smoothly with both Moog and Roland gear (and of course, Arturia?The system also lets you choose from a range of scales or, via the accompanying software editor, define your own, consisting of as many or as few notes as you like. While the sequencer persona dominates, the Beatstep Pro is still a capable MIDI control surface and DAW controller. In my tests, this was most effective when set to very small amounts, as the results with more extreme settings can be a little too random.