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Question: what is the vst (or software) used to create the multicolored midi note pattern in the background?

What synth did you use in this?

Little late in seeing this, but, what synth are you using with ARP in this video?

chop off the top third. rotate to landscape. draw on the back of your hand/thumb. This I want to see.... NB sounds good though

How much? The website won't tell me

Interesting device! But why does the displayed tempo keep changing from around 6:18 to 6:30 ?

What are you using for MIDI in/converter? Thanks

I have just started my journey in learning to live perform. Two things I’ve learned. There are no rules. Have fun. I improvise as an alternative to structure that I have to deal with in my full time job and adulting. Noise made with our toys is one of the few things in life that truly moves me. I also do this for myself. Similar to I have to love and or fix myself.

Did you consider using the J-6 chord library ? Select a chords set, use the J-6 as a MIDI controller - easy feeding of chord progressions to the ARP with single touches on the J-6's "keyboard". But would that be redundant with what the ARP offers ? (I have no idea - ARP is on my 2024 Santa Claus letter...)

That drum midi hack is brilliant. Thanks for the idea.

Really enjoying the device. This was helpful. Thank you.

Lovely

Nice!

Could you have used a more annoying sound to show this off

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From my own point of view, recorded, music never feels the same when recorded as it did when performing it and this carries over to an audience, too. A recorded "live" performance can never sound the same as it did in the venue and this is not just mixing or acoustics or editing: personality, equipment quirks, the rest of the audience and more all play into the final experience. From this video evidence, there is absolutely nothing wrong with your improv skills - verging on 'Berlin School' at times. At one point you say that you find music improv and music production to be very different and I wonder if you are not bringing your "producer's ears" to your musician's practice... I can see how that would lead to self-doubt. An audience is there to listen (we hope) and they understand what they have come to hear and are prepared for whatever happens (well, mostly they are - I can never forgive the tw*t at a Barry Adamson gig recently who was calling loudly for the sacking of the person who'd set up Barry's microphone, which kept dropping in height: even Mr Adamson found it funny).

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Very impressive session with the Arp as central sequencer tool. Daily practice with the Arp, learning to control/play your synths/plugins creates great possibilities in making music.

Top! 😎

This long overdue video illustrates how the arp can be used as a sketch pad for ideas that follow one another freely. Very liberating improv device.

Fantastic discussions

Wowza that was awesome! Definitely recognise that robot 😅

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Got mine yesterday, thanks. Within an hour I had some rather lovely stuff coming out of it!

Any retailer in Latin America?

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Great explanations and the ARP overall is just such a magical device.

Interesting. But repeatability and a harmonic pattern are by no means definitive of what music can be. They describe what it usually is and how humans usually use it but in my experience there are more interesting sources of variability and creativity for exploring spontaneously arising patterns. This is seen by mind as just chaos but this is not a very interesting dialogue with sound. Repeatability is not a crucial criterion. Of course these are views and inspirations for different persons.

How to set midi out for each arp? Settings are only global

Puh… , yeah…. Why not 🙂

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Q: Groovbox Instrument on Ch10, how well is it supported for multible drums & perussion? In your tutorials, the show case is primarily shown with synthesizers.

100🎉

So the full performance will be released on 26.7.2024 and then I can find it? Sorry, I am a little confused 😂

Just ordered. Hardest part. What color. Excited to have fun! Thank you for this great tool!

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Sold! I'll be ordering one this week.

Modulation in moderation. This is the way. Thank you.

it was Leonardo da Vinci who said “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” Great, open and honest video because sometimes you just have to “suck it and see”.

This device looks awesome, but I can't afford more hardware. Would be great to have even basic VST or other software integration with Bitwig Grid

Controlled randomness... Sounds familiar

this channel is a great find!🤗

"Approaches to music sequencing" is worthy of a PhD dissertation. Many sequencers seem to get stuck at 16 steps simply because after that the level of mechanical vibe-killing tedium sharply rises. A few break out by having a 32-step grid or dividers-multipliers and variable lanes. Arp is very unusual in that it's incredibly easy to go way beyond 16 steps. The price you pay for that is not having micro control over every note. Instead you control scales, ranges, cycles and patterns. My best analogy has Arp as a sheepdog: It efficiently guides a big flock of notes from place to place. Anyway, I'm glad we're calling it a sequencer now, maybe we can say Arp is an acronym? Arranger-Repeater-Performer :)

Well done.

For me the Arp is the right tool to create nice patterns without loosing control. With some practice you easily can make interesting beautiful live performances on multiple instruments. With a random generator it is not that much fun for me - It feels like riding kind of a bull and you can’t steer this beast. Sorry for my weak english but hopefully you know what I mean.

Thankyou for taking the time on this one. Most helpful, gradually taking it all in I must update 👍👍

Great discussion. Very useful to those of us that understand the concepts but lack the physical ability. Also explains why I start noodling in the evening and when I look up it’s 2am. 😂

Lovely ! Do you give the TR-8 a Midicake ARP track - or do you only synchronize it to play it directly ?

That was decicious. I am a very impatient person but listen to the last note, and I almost never do that!

Beautiful. Love your music and your writings - And your gear 🙂