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A Great Step Sequencer

Archive · 2008 19 old posts

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aliasant ·

Hi. I have started making many mods to the one I already had and its getting better and better. But Im stuck.

So far I made it work with "unlimited" amounts of steps and it works on the chromatic scale so modifying pitches is very simple and nice. It also has a good tempo control. Synced and free rate.

Get it and have a look. Lets make this baby work as it should.

tektoog ·

Hey, Well... it crashes my SM... Can't open it... too bad...

aliasant ·

Sorry. It is made with the latest beta. Maybe thats why? Runs fine here. I made a new save were I detached the ASIO output. download again. It should work.

tektoog ·

Damn !!! That was is it !!! But time to go to bed ... I will check it later. Thanks for the change... don't know how to say it in a better english... or maybe something like thanks for the effort...but that 's not the word I'm looking for either....ho well... Thx anyway... Cheers

Acrobat ·

Colosseum!

Neptune ·

Wow! What a great work.

I changed the ADSR to the manualADSR from the stock and added a trigger to gate. Now its possible to set a short decay.

Edit: File removed (see post below)

aliasant ·

Neptune wrote: Wow! What a great work.

I changed the ADSR to the manualADSR from the stock and added a trigger to gate. Now its possible to set a short decay.

... or a long attack =) Great add. That was a nice trick I want to use in my synth.

I added sample rate compensation to the 2 smooth filters in the sequence area. Without it that smooth character will change with sample rate.

I changed my the download link so it contains the latest version of this.

infuzion ·

A LFO-sequencer is the best approach for a SM sequencer right now IMHO, & this is a very good example of it.

I do see that the sequence playback will stop if you add a new note though; I expect the root to change but the seq to keep going like in other aggropators.

aliasant ·

infuzion wrote: A LFO-sequencer is the best approach for a SM sequencer right now IMHO, & this is a very good example of it.

I do see that the sequence playback will stop if you add a new note though; I expect the root to change but the seq to keep going like in other aggropators.

Maybe something you can fix?

To me the biggest problem is that if the sequence is shifted it is only the arrays that are shifted. Not the Mouse area. So when you start editing it you will edit the wrong area. Some way the mouse area needs to be shifted with the sequence.

Neptune ·

infuzion wrote: A LFO-sequencer is the best approach for a SM sequencer right now IMHO, & this is a very good example of it.

I do see that the sequence playback will stop if you add a new note though; I expect the root to change but the seq to keep going like in other aggropators.

Not sure if this is a feature of my midi-keyboard but if i keep the played note hit and release it after playing a new note the stream does not get interrupted so no restart of the sequence appears.

aliasant ·

Neptune wrote: infuzion wrote: A LFO-sequencer is the best approach for a SM sequencer right now IMHO, & this is a very good example of it.

I do see that the sequence playback will stop if you add a new note though; I expect the root to change but the seq to keep going like in other aggropators.

Not sure if this is a feature of my midi-keyboard but if i keep the played note hit and release it after playing a new note the stream does not get interrupted so no restart of the sequence appears.

Isnt that because this is a polyphonic sequencer?

And to infuzion. Not sure I understand your thought about the sequence playback stopping. Doesnt happen to me. it just keeps going.

electrogear ·

I've made an LFO poly sequencer too, similar to Neptunes' (sorry I hope you don't mind me copying your concept). I was wondering, what if you want the sequencer to play in poly, but instead of starting from the beginning of the sequencer every time a new note is played, to keep all played notes in sync with eachother, would this be possible?

Cheers

NekroDisko ·

Infuzion, what the heck is an approgator? I guess its a play with words like the Tarnce-gate but this sounds cooler! Perhaps an Aggrogator? That would be exactly what I need for my music! Or an Grogginator 😉 . Ha, ha, I better stop now before my drunk mind start to spin away completely. But, anyway, nice sequenser!

Sasu Honka ·

Great little Sequencer!

Just a little mod. I added this:

Now the drawing works right even if shift is not 0.

Very nice Seq indeed Alisant!

Thanks: Sasu

aliasant ·

Wow. This feels so old 🙂

Glad its still usable though !

😀

MegaHurtz ·

i actually need an agogreater, the aggrogator pissed me off.

datsound ·

I was going to add some mods to this awesome sequencer, espectially auto arpeggio drawing.

program changes seem to be working ok, the only bug i noticed werd that the first sequences has a step missing and the following ones are different.

when i copied it over to new synths, only the fist note appeared on the sequencer display...

EDIT- it started workigng... Something weird happened... i copied in an example synth for a test and then did undo 20 times to get back to my home made synth and all the steps are now showing. same structure just "reainitialised it"somehow. thanks sm for lines that dont activate every time. 😝

also it was running abuot 1000 steps a second in the home synth, checking the ramp and putting a readout on the ramp seemed to fix it.

thanks great seq to learn from.

aliasant ·

I was the one trying to create this a long time ago 😉 You are using SM v2.0 I guess? Seems the trigger fixes in 2.0 makes this not really work.

My recomendation is. Disassembly it 🙂 Take the parts you think are good and make your own from scratch. What I liked about this one is the way I recount the number of steps for the sequencer but again. This was a long time ago and I was even more a novice back then so there are probably many ways better then this to create a seq.

However. I did manage to make it play by forcing some triggers. Try this. Open the osm. Change steps to something else and then change Preset to something else...

philter5 ·

...an old one... but GREAT ! BTW: i like the idea with the animated knob... don´t know why but it never came to my mind that i need the animated strip only once, even if i have dozens of knobs. really great idea, i have to try it out right now with my own projects to see how much i can shrink the filesize etc. thx a lot! 😍

Note: wasn´t there a song called "see you later aggrogator"? lol

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