MidiStep for iOS - Aleatoric Step Sequencer - Preview

[@Silent_Stillness]

Paul! MASSIVE congratulations for this incredible achievement, I cannot wait to see where MidiStep is going to go from there. You are a true pioneer for the iOS music community. Your productivity and dedication despite the serious challenges you've faced is nothing short of astounding to me. I applaud you sir and you have my utmost respect and gratitude!😊

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate everyones enthusiasm for my apps. Thankfully I have made a lot of great friends while developing these apps, and it wouldn't be possible without their help (shout out to David for all the work on my manuals). We already have a lot of great ideas for the first update which I think will set this apart from the rest of the pack.

[@iosmusicman]

@@PaultheMusicManI won’t be the first to second that (see what I did there there?). Many thanks Paul as always. Lee

[@MarkDammer]

Hi Paul - this is a great sequencer. Great for jamming. From my first experience I do have one feature request: Please do not hide disabled steps. I suggest the same “ghost note” behaviour of tied notes. In my own jams I often “prepare” disabled notes before enabling them. And the same would be good for sequences that are shorter than 16 steps. Please don’t hide the unused steps. Thanks a lot!

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Yep, will looking into adding this in a future verion.

[@Bowzee303]

Bought it today, worth every penny!!!!! ❤ Sending midi to Pure Acid and Korg gadget. Love it. I also like that it came with presets to try out.

[@maumau-music]

This looks incredible! Can't wait for it to drop - thanks for all the effort you've put in to this (and your other apps) One thing I'd love love is 'trigger condition' a la Octachron - to be able to have a note/chord play only on bar X out of 2/3/4 has been game changing for me to quickly write interesting patterns even before going to song mode.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

We do have note probability, note skip and the ability to randomize if a note or a chord is played per column. Wait until I start doing the masterclass videos and I will go through all this.

[@TheSemtexCow]

Wow, looks very much like Stepic. Can’t wait for this one.

[@dacat101]

Yes I thought that steric for iPad

[@JadeStarr]

As always ahead of the curve and outside the box! Wonderful

[@smooth7689]

It looks like a awful lot of hard work. Well done. It raises the game for everyone.

[@davids.688]

Wow, just wow. The visionary, and prolific, Paul TMM strikes again. If Microsoft employed, say, just twenty Pauls and fired everyone else, they’d not only be the biggest software company in the world, but the highest quality one. And they’d pretty much be able to disable their tech support chatbot. Once again, and as always, hats off to Paul. Cheers!

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Thanks David, nice that you guys appreciate what I do.

[@TheOverlordOfProcrastination]

You sound very healthy and well, sir. And I’m very glad about that. Would like to see this demonstrated in GarageBand or Logicpro for iPad, before I buy. I’d guess this is where most of us create songs. If you know of any instances please post them, as this looks very cool.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

This won't work in GarageBand as Midi plugins are not supported in this app sadly, but it does work in LP so I will include some demos in future MasterClass video tutorials.

[@TheOverlordOfProcrastination]

@@PaultheMusicMan thanks, mate. I’m sure many of us would appreciate that. Good luck with the app.

[@edzielinski]

*Tip of the day: If you want to use the Transpose: Arp modes, you must have the Sync setting configured to *Note On* (not Host). It will trigger the playback only when note input is active. It's great fun. See it in action at 23:34.

[@Francesco-L]

Wow, a awesome app that really changes the game. Thanks for your great work Paul!

[@CarbonatesOnMars]

This is an instant purchase for me. Great work great tutorial Paul. Thank you. 🙏

[@grahamsherlock4904]

Stepic for IOS AMAZING!! Thanks Paul.

[@gm-kp8is]

Thanks Paul that was flipping mind blowing! Can’t wait for the next video and the release of this amazing app. 👍😁

[@dacat101]

This is fantastic Paul instant buy for me love your work.

[@djba]

Paul …this looks great! Thanks for all you do.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Thanks Bill, I appreciate you taking the time to comment.

[@MachineSequence]

You had me at Helium ❤

[@dr.rabbitfoot7421]

Really looking forward to this Mr. Paul!

[@michaelnervOus]

Very cool Paul!! 🎉

[@3stig]

Thank you very much Paul for this fantastic app 😎👍

[@philtrickey]

Hi Paul - amazing product as always! Can I export the midi so that I can get it into Cubase on my Windows computer?

[@PaultheMusicMan]

You can export by dragging the clipboard button to the Files App, and this will export a file in MIDI format that can be dragged into Cubasis.

[@seniorbeatbox]

hmm a challenger to Piano Motifs perhaps.. very cool 😊

[@MeerkatMuzic]

Does look fab and sound good, not sure what it’s triggering first min, external app or built in engine. Good to see your back at what you best at midi magic.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Thanks mate, it is triggering SynthMaster 2 I believe in the intro. This is purely a MIDI sequencer so no internal audio source.

[@MeerkatMuzic]

Cheers still watching great app going to get a lot of use out of this. Looking fwd to the release.

[@MeerkatMuzic]

Just for info Arthur Kerns has an app called MidiSTEPS very similar name just so your aware the function and layout is different it’s been out quite a few years now. People are bound to mention it at some point.

[@suntanbear4763]

This looks awesome

[@eddyjacobs3062]

Indeed, a must have again. Paul, I see that you added save as pdf in the help manual, it would be great to have that option in Helium, Neon (and some others) too. 😊

[@PaultheMusicMan]

I'm already ahead of you on this one, it actually renders the HTML manual directly to a PDF, and I intend to add this to all my apps as they are updated. Oh, and congratulations for making it to the end of the video! lol

[@eddyjacobs3062]

Thanks and 😂😂

[@johanvangestel6952]

Looks alot like Devicemeister’s Stepic… but for iPadOs…

[@PeterPrism]

silence, the genius has created!

[@PaultheMusicMan]

I'm not sure about genius, more of a obsessive crackpot I'd say! lol

[@edzielinski]

Genius or wizard or fill in the blank - any way you slice it, the man has created an entire collection of apps that cover almost every music related category - audio editor, MIDI control, multi-track recorder, effects, automation, multi-function instruments, drum machines, and more. If labeling Paul a genius will encourage him to create more apps (and sometimes tweak existing ones), then I'll say super-duper-genius-wizard-star-goat!

[@danielforro-forrotronics3921]

Could be set in scale editor a range we want to consider as a scale? That would allow to create modes over octave border.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

With the use of the octave lane you can effectively do this as it stands, but I will give it some thought.

[@danielforro-forrotronics3921]

@@PaultheMusicMan Great, thank you!

[@cyb]

Il buy this just for the chords function

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Wait until what we have done to the chord section in 1.02, which will be made available later today! I think people are going to love the new features.

[@rubyroomsdsoundbooth]

Hey Paul, another highly useful release. Thank you for all your contributions to the iOS space. Wondering if you are supposed to be able to use multiple CC modulations at once. Right now in both AUM and ApeMatrix I can only use 1 CC modulation at a time. If I switch to edit a second modulation it stops outputing the unselected modulations. Not sure if this is intended or not.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Strange, I will check this out as it should allow 8 simultanious modulation lanes. Perhaps we overlooked this in testing but if it is not working this will be a priority fix in the first release.

[@rubyroomsdsoundbooth]

@@PaultheMusicMan I posted this in the AB forum as well. Was an issue for at least one other person. Another person found that presets using more than one modulation were fine. I personally hadn’t looked deeper to verify. I may have got sidetracked playing with the sequencer :)

[@PaultheMusicMan]

@@rubyroomsdsoundbooth I've just tested sending CC1 and CC21 and they both worked fine under AUM. I will look into it and see if I can duplicate your issue. Just be sure EACH CC is enabled as they need enabling seperately.

[@rubyroomsdsoundbooth]

@@PaultheMusicMan if you need I can send you a video showing the issue. Should the modulations also continue when I switch between sequencer and modulations ? Modulations stop if I switch back to the sequencer tab/page.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

@@rubyroomsdsoundbooth I've found the issue thanks to Ed Zeilinski's keen eye! I will have a fix out ASAP.

[@rgrandles]

When is release date....worth getting this

[@PaultheMusicMan]

I'm guessing early next week if all goes well.

[@jamesbastani4295]

Hi Paul, Are you testing your new apps with Logic Pro for iPad? Also have you reworked all the great apps you created before LP was introduced for iOS? So far the only two that seem to be working with LP are Strummer FX and Harmonic Exciter. TIA

[@PaultheMusicMan]

I've been using MidiStep inside of Logic Pro and confirm it is working fine. I know I had issues with my last app MeloVox in LP but this is down to an actual bug in LP which attempts to load it as a mono effect and fails. Still waiting for their developers to fix this issue! There isn't an issue with this app and I've been testing it periodically. Other than that my newer apps (since LP) should work fine. If not let me know as I'm not a big LP user.

[@kitschbreeder8546]

Thank you

[@knimmo]

I was able to load MidiStep as an AUv3 on my MacBook Pro M3, but I don't know if this is intended. It works with one exception: the random dice do not function or change steps. Is there a workaround for this, or is MidiStep AUv3 not intended for M3? I am trying to use it in Logic Pro. Thanks for any help!

[@PaultheMusicMan]

It was really intended to be used on iOS, but I guess it should also work on the Mac too. You need to watch all the videos to understand how the randomize patterns work. Some lanes are not setup to perform randomization by default so please work through the videos as all is explained.

[@knimmo]

@ thanks, Paul. I own many of your apps and love the ones i can figure out. :) but thats just my comprehension!

[@iampaul9poetry]

Sold 🍻

[@robthequiet]

Are the manuals available other than through the app? I would like to know more about which parameters are available to mod internally and which might be exposed to modulate from other AUv3 apps or hardware controllers.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Not currently, but I will go over these in the next video.

[@SoundtempleMusic]

Does Midistep have an arp mode? In an arp mode the available step notes are determined by the incoming chord rather than by the scale.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Yes, watch my MidiStep Preview video. Or checkout The Sound Test Room's video on MidiStep as Doug does demonstrate it.

[@SoundtempleMusic]

@@PaultheMusicMan ok, I watched. Note on mode is close, but what I was looking for was the ability to use the red note sequence sliders to select a note of the chord (or current notes on). You can do this with StepPolyArp and vst's like ChordPotion. Especially useful when you make music that is non-diatonic. It allows for creative freedom with arp types instead of being limited to the usual up, down, up/down etc. Impressive feature set nonetheless... :-)

[@PaultheMusicMan]

@@SoundtempleMusic Note On mode using In Poly Transform allows the notes of a chord to trigger the sequence. So if you have a complex sequence and just play one note you get the pattern within the editor. Having a simple pattern sequence with spaced notes allows polyphonic input with gate type effects. It is quite powerful and in this mode the ARP complexity is down to what you add to your patterns, and transformed by your key presses.

[@SoundtempleMusic]

@@PaultheMusicMan Thanks for taking the time to explain. Just to clarify my understanding is correct… Note on mode requires note to trigger sequence. Mono transform transposes the sequence depending on the note held and constrains notes to selected key. Poly transform plays all notes of chord on each step and red steps seem to transpose the chord with all notes locked to scale. Arp modes are just 3 basic arp modes that can be modified with things like octave control and arp note re-pitch using red steps. ie In video at 25.:00 random notes can be added and can transpose the arp notes which are then constrained to the scale. In a nutshell, I was hoping to have the scale dynamically set to the held notes of the incoming chord. Then I would just program (custom arp modes) with transpose off.

[@PaultheMusicMan]

@@SoundtempleMusic Poly Mode is what you need IF you want to use notes of the incoming chords. By setting all the notes in the pattern to root notes and specifying certain columns on and off, you can follow the chords precisely creating a rhythmic pattern, then add occasional deviations from that using octave of 7th notes etc.

[@Synfluence101]

What's the difference between "chance" and "probability?"

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Probability is the likelihood of a note being played, whereas change is linked to chords and is the change that a chord or a note will be played.

[@Synfluence101]

@ thanks

[@kentaccordionist]

TOTAL GAME CHANGER

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Yes, I think so too... and so much fun!

[@kentaccordionist]

@@PaultheMusicMan very fun will work great from my accordion bass. Or even from my midi guitar

[@edzielinski]

Hopefully Paul won't tag me for this, but you can read the whole manual (at least the draft version) at 28:14. Get a jump on your friends and make yourself look like a genius before the app even comes out 🤣

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Eagle Eyed Ed does it again, here's me working on my MasterClass and your telling them to freeze frame the video! lol

[@edzielinski]

@@PaultheMusicMan 👀

[@zolakaya]

How is this different from stepic? Aside from random?

[@PaultheMusicMan]

I've never used Stepic so I can't tell you, but I guess most step sequencers look kinda similar. I've written lots of sequencers over the years, and this one is just an amalgamation of everything I like about Euclidean and its polyrhythms/polymeters etc. and put them into a more user friendly interface.

[@MickRasbid]

Well first of all this is available for iOS Stepic is specifically computer only

[@gen-amb]

Absolute noob to this: I can’t find it. Is it a VST? Does it work in Windows? Maybe a link in your description would help.

[@iosmusicman]

The obvious clue (no disrespect) is in the title. It’s for iOS (Apple phones and iPads). I hope that helps.

[@n.k.turley2496]

Just take my money...👍

[@Punk_Mayhem]

Wherever here 8s i t

[@PaultheMusicMan]

It's pre-release preview!

[@issiewizzie]

There's a rumour going around that you don't sleep. 😀😀😀😀

[@PaultheMusicMan]

I will have plenty of time to sleep in the afterlife! lol

[@issiewizzie]

@@PaultheMusicMan well said

[@oskultrecord1731]

Nice but the interface look like 2000 apps really 😅

[@PaultheMusicMan]

Yeah your right, should have focused more on the interface than actual functionality because thats what counts right? I will add more flashing lights on my next app for you!

[@iosmusicman]

@@PaultheMusicManhow about some bells and whistles too Paul? Preferably in sync with the flashing lights!