Device Details
Device Overview
| Name/Version: | Advanced Step Sequencer 1.0.5 |  |
| Author: | Rozzer | |
| Description: | This step sequencer is quite unlike the Step Sequencer bundled with M4L. On the surface it's reasonably standard. It's a live.grid based sequencer - notes, gate, tie, velocity and two control changes. What's unique about it is that you can set different loop points for each of those elements, which allows for anything from simple 303-style basslines to endlessly evolving, rotating, mutating melody lines. The other unique thing about this is that it's designed to work solely within musical scales. The sequencer grid adapts itself to whatever scale you choose. Choose a chromatic scale, and you get a full 12 steps to play with, but choose a pentatonic scale and the grid automatically adapts itself to show only 5 rows (notes). You don't need to know any music theory to get great results. Add to all that a bunch of useful randomization options and it becomes a really useful tool. Hit the URL link for a video demo. Top tip - Rack these up and put several each in their own chain for mad polyphonic polyrhythmic sequences. Updates: 1.0.5 - Proper naming for automate-able parameters. 1.0.4 - New syncing/clock system. Fixes several bugs and allows the sequencer to lock to song position. 1.0.2 - Fixed a problem with sequencer not starting on first launch. |
Device Details
| Downloads: | 8398 |
| Tags | sequencer |
| Live Version Used: | 8.1 |
| Max Version Used: | |
| Average Rating (16) | 5 |
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| Device Type: | midi_device |
| URL (optional): | http://www.rozzer.net/wp/?p=319 |
| License (more info): | AttributionNonCommercial |
Device Files
| Device File: | Rozzer - Advanced Step Sequencer.amxd |
Comments
| Awesome patch! Would it be hard to add APC40/Launchpad support? |
Posted on March 02 2010 by dirtybit (report) |
| Most excellent, I really like functionality and layout, thanks! Maybe a swingfunction ? Most seqs seem to be missing that. Is wonderful as it is though. |
Posted on March 03 2010 by AuralBee (report) |
| Need no music theory...!?! Must be the ideal thing for me...!!! |
Posted on March 03 2010 by simplicissimus (report) |
| hi rozzer, great work, and thanks. a point though - all the automation / modulation appears under unusable generic object names (like live.numbox[1] etc). could you look into naming all your parameters etc with rozzer-type names and ordering them? my names suck, (and i do hate to use edits of others devices, (!)). thanks again! |
Posted on March 05 2010 by pp (report) |
| Hi pp. Absolutely, I am aware that needs doing. Pure laziness on my part. Will fix in an update soon :) |
Posted on March 05 2010 by Rozzer (report) |
| different loop points and musical scales are doing a lot of job for me!!! saves my time... is it posibile to add patches so it can be automated? or somehow add to clips. or maby i'm not diggin it... |
Posted on March 09 2010 by mdrfdr (report) |
| Thanks for the suggestions mdrfdr. Patches would be nice, but it seems that the Preset object does not support live.grid at this time. I've been told Ableton will fix that at some point. What do you mean by adding clips? |
Posted on March 11 2010 by Rozzer (report) |
| I mean like you work with audio clip in arrangement view, and then you export slices in new midi track... but nevermind that, that was stupid suggestion. Adding any option, any way to make ASS work through diferent phrases in track will be great! ;) P.S. And people, how do you get it ? Adding more than one ASS and enableing and disableing them in arrangement ? |
Posted on March 11 2010 by mdrfdr (report) |
| I tend to just record the output to a midi clip when I'm happy with the sequence. I do want to think more about live performance features though so I'll bear your request in mind. Another thing I want to add is transposition via midi input, so you could transpose the whole sequence, but still have it output in the correct key and scale. |
Posted on March 12 2010 by Rozzer (report) |
| is there anyway to export a pattern from the sequencer to "midi clip" pattern. So I can work with it as an ordinary midi pattern (midi clip) with the grid and the keyboard on the left? |
Posted on October 22 2010 by covent (report) |
| covent - see the comment above yours. |
Posted on December 27 2010 by Rozzer (report) |
| Love this sequencer! thanks so much Rozzer for your great work. just one question, i cant figure out how to use the cc controllers section, am i missing something? i figure out a parameter's midi cc number under the midi mapping tab in live and then change the knob to that same number, nothing happens. any ideas? |
Posted on January 16 2011 by dsb (report) |
| Disregard, Figured it out. Thanks again for the wonderful step sequencer! |
Posted on January 16 2011 by dsb (report) |
| After heavy use i have to say this one is very usefull intuitive and lot of fun!!! |
Posted on February 08 2011 by vh (report) |
| Beautiful device! But I do not get the tie thing: I would expect it to holde the first note that appears during the tie as long as long as there is a consecutive set of ties. But if I look at the MIDI notes that is not the case. So how can I use the ties e.g. with simpler? |
Posted on September 22 2011 by ander (report) |
| Is there anyway to make the random buttons midi-mappable I am a heavy user and I would really love to have it midi-mappable Thanks for making this in the first place |
Posted on January 04 2012 by Cryptonym (report) |
| I love this thing. There are a couple of improvements I would like to see (like the ability to automate named parameters and not just generic MIDI CCs, and being able to record realtime edits to the sequence as MIDI data) but this is a terrific tool for putting together some nicely layered grooves. |
Posted on January 06 2012 by hdouble (report) |
| hey just wanted to say that presets recall the settings for the livegrids and other live stuff now, at least in max519. I wasted a lot of time trying to use pattr objects for the livegrid and livenumber objects, which doesn't work - has to use autopattr for the live objects and then the pattrstorage can access them properly as far as i can tell. Thanks so much rozzer for this really versatile step sequencer. You are great. |
Posted on January 29 2012 by fantasticmachine (report) |
| Very strange, none of the random buttons make any changes for me. Am I overlooking something obvious? |
Posted on October 14 2012 by soundsketcher (report) |
| ... also noticed that the "arrow" controls for each parameter also do nothing. I'm guessing it's a problem with my system since nobody else reported it. |
Posted on October 14 2012 by soundsketcher (report) |
| Exactly the same here, no random or move notes functionality. Live 9, M4L 6.1. Apart from that - a lovely little tool ;) |
Posted on April 16 2013 by Spotta (report) |
| Since updating to Live 9 and max 6.2. It dose not fully work for me too. Big shame I love this sequencer. |
Posted on May 02 2013 by atari (report) |
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This step sequencer is quite unlike the Step Sequencer bundled with M4L.
On the surface it’s reasonably standard. It’s a live.grid based sequencer - notes, gate, tie, velocity and two control changes. What’s unique about it is that you can set different loop points for each of those elements, which allows for anything from simple 303-style basslines to endlessly evolving, rotating, mutating melody lines.
The other unique thing about this is that it’s designed to work solely within musical scales. The sequencer ‘grid’ adapts itself to whatever scale you choose. Choose a chromatic scale, and you get a full 12 steps to play with, but choose a pentatonic scale and the grid automatically adapts itself to show only 5 rows (notes). You don’t need to know any music theory to get great results.
Add to all that a bunch of useful randomisation options and it becomes a really useful tool.
Hit the 'more info' link for a video demo.
*Top tip* Rack these up and put several each in their own chain for mad polyphonic polyrhythmic sequences.