Arpeggiator for pads
Would be great having an arpeggiator mode and not just the note repeat. With the scale and chord modes would made BM3 an amazing machine for live playing.
Would be great having an arpeggiator mode and not just the note repeat. With the scale and chord modes would made BM3 an amazing machine for live playing.
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The first beta of BM3 I laid my fingers on had at least a partial UI for an arpeggiator in place so I have no doubts we'll see that in an update some day
Combining that with 'chords' and 'scales' will be totally awesome!
Thats a really good news! So the arpeggiator maybe in the works now... Can anyone from intua cofirm this?
Arp button over fx and macro knob menu buttons, which would open a menu with step sequencer(16 numbers in 4x4 grid that you could slide to -+24 semi tones) and other arp controls where the fx and macro menus pop up. It could also be used to easily make 16 step sequences by selecting the root note and +-semitones on the arp and just record the root note(from pad, not in keys mode) held down to real sequencer. Also if you could save arp patterns to the track and have 4-8 of those preset buttons on the menu, it would really kick ass. Or maybe a sub menu that would cover the sequencer part with the presets, still leaving things like gate length etc open for tweaking while playing or for automating them.
Instrument banks with free MIDI tracks.
Banks as they are now stay the same.
Create an entirely new type of bank that is triggered by a new MIDI track in the arranger.
When you assign a sampler or AUv3 to a pad in the new instrument bank, it is triggered from the new MIDI track, however the pattern lane that would normally trigger the instrument in the banks as we have them now, would become a step arpeggiator.
No new UI needs to be put in place, but you end up with an unbelievable powerful step arp.
A simple editable arpeggio pop-up/page via a button on pads or keys page (the pages where the arpeggio would often be physically auditioned/played) would be fine and exactly the same results...
Not sure really
A pattern lane has steps, a step arp has steps
A pattern lane sends its info to a loaded sampler or AUv3, an arp sends its info to a loaded sampler or AUv3
So there is no need for any new UI to cover the step input of the arp itself or indeed the assigning to a sampler or AUv3.
So your idea would need the heavy code work, most of the code for my idea is in place, but hey ho, was a silly idea, sorry for commenting, my mistake.
For a start if the arpeggio is receiving its pattern from a midi track, where's it gonna receive transpose/live notes info from? And where would that stuff get recorded if sequenced?
Plus the sequencer would be playing the arpeggio pattern independently (looped if held and/or off grid if played live) from everything else whilst the rest of the timeline patterns scrolled along..
Etc etc..
I have no idea tbh, just assumed that all that stuff would be far more complicated to code than a traditional (tho editable) arpeggio that was separate from the timeline sequencer and part of the banks/instruments like you'd normally expect...
Now now...let's all just go off and make pretty sounds and melodies
I'm not being defensive, i have just been told by somebody in PM that every time they read a post by me it makes them feel ill, so i apologised for commenting on your idea and moved on, i wont be commenting on posts from now on, i obviously come from a very different place to people posting here and the AB forum, in my world people state things as they are, but hey ho, if i can help i will, and i will be posting my own FR and BR, and a might post a tutorial if i can be bothered, but that's pretty much it.
You can use arpegist but in iaa and route the output of arpegist to the input of BM3
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BM3 already has loads of chord & scale presets that would be a blast to use with the arpeggiator.
In addition it would be nice to have 'trigger patters'(for adding rhythm), 'step repeat' and 'step ratchet'.
Hopefully the step-modulator will get an option to re-trigger the sample, that would be a real boon for creating playable sequences
yeah, i love arpeggiators. i sold my blofeld because the arp doesn't trigger properly. virsyn apps have great arps. i'd be happy to pay for an IAP as an incentive for intua too. that's real love
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@5pinlink what are the benefits of AU midi for an arp over a well designed/integrated internal arpeggio? I don't actually know what AU midi refers to, is it something that has only become recently available in ios 11?
@Heyez sorry about that, I think that my humour is too weird >... @5pinlink honestly ARP fonction is actually a must have in BM3 and what a mean with my screenshot is that before BM3, ma.......ne was my favorite beat app and I seriously miss the arp fonction.
So, yeah we can use a third parti AU but it’s pain on the ass.... : BM3 , load the AU app, activate it.... , return on BM3 , hit record, go to AU app, find the good melody....no that’s not the good one, return to BM3, redo it .......etc etc ....
The workflow isn’t a priority value for a great standard App ?