Once again, these sequences can be recorded in real-time by banging the pads, or with a classic drum machine workflow, by entering steps. You can therefore take juice from a computer’s USB port or from a regular USB adapter borrowed from a phone or iPad. s ability to restrain your note options to specific keys and modes, much like iPad compositional tools or Ableton? Record note pitch, length and velocity in real-time with the pads or an external keyboard and hear your sequence play back, quantized at the step resolution. I want the midi to pass through Ableton so I can record midi clips with the notes of the beatstep sequencer.

Bill Cheney and Jim Romney are the men responsible for keeping the amazing legacy of Spectra Sonics, a legendary, if criminally unheralded, pro-audio company alive. A few months ago, while Neil Mclellan and I were having dinner at his place and listening to some tracks he'd been mixing on his home rig, he started to show me webpages of some big old synths that he.

The notes generated correspond to those used already in the pattern: it’s not one of those ‘scary randoms’ where you have no idea what to expect.

You can of course program this old school: select a step, turn the knob for that step to select a pitch, do the same for velocity and gate, move on to the next step, and repeat.Switching clock divisions changes both the playback resolution and the granularity of recorded notes, with the available options printed adjacent to the pads. 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.