great machine really, it's so fun to play, I have a cirklon but this is so fun and hands on that creativity flows easier, lower ceiling but also lower floor. Thanks for the explanation!
Thanks so much for this clear breakdown for the new firmware update! Way easier to understand than Arturia's official vids! Bookmarked! I use my BSP to write synthwave stuff, so Scenes is a breakthrough update!!
I’ve had my best step still boxed for year and a half and did not know it could do all this stuff I bought it as I got a matrix brute and your suppose to be able to connect it via cv which I could not get my head around but this is great stuff going to use it today thank you seems the best video I’ve seen keep up the great work
Thank you so much man, I was thinking of selling this thing because it felt a bit limited for what I wanted to do, but these hidden features are exactly what I wanted (the polymeter too)
I have been looking for days for a seq with these "Sceens" no one explains it, so I have not bought one yet. Now I know this one does exactly what I needed!
Yep, that was sooo much more usefull and clear (in the content, your video quality in image quality terms got so much improved since it :) that the Arturia video.
Just got mine today. Essential video this thanks. Now to work out how this can be safely backed up to the PC with the midi control centre software which is a little confusing.
+Kenneth Daniel what are you sound module are you using? Depending on what you're using and whether it has a "learn mode", you may need to hook the BSP up to your computer and set up each pa's midi note in the Midi Control Centre software.
The bass sounds are coming from a Novation Bass Station, it'll be a patch that I built myself, not a factory preset. To be clear (I'm not presuming ignorance here, so apologies if I'm stating the obvious), the BeatStep Pro *doesn't* make any sound itself, it has to trigger other instruments over midi or CV.
Very nice video. You explain in a nice clear manner. Thank you. Can you make a video explaining if we can use the drum sequencer with NI maschine to have the sounds of machine but make the sequences and scenes on beatstep pro. Also if the drum sequencer can be used with a synth. Also if each sequencer can be used with different devices at the same time, for example one pattern would be from one synth and the other pattern on the same sequencer from another synth.
Sadly I don't have Maschine, so I can't help there directly, but it's all about setting the Midi channel of the sequences and having the synths you want to sequence receive midi on that same channel (the setting is usually called "Receive channel" or "Rx Channel"). On the drum sequence you can even set different pads to send midi to different channels, but that has to be set up in the Midi Control Centre software on your PC.
Got my first jam with the BSP out there on youtube. Love the little machine and exploring it with your tips and tricks. Got a lot to learn. The only thing I have to say is that its hard to sync a VST or an iPad drummachine. Running sparkle or another plugin trough Logic pro, the beat ends up on channel 1 and channel 10. I am using audiobus on the ipad with DM1. Try to put a video out on the problems i have. I also get a zoom noise when connecting the sync out to a Volca.
So I'm terms of the channels etc. I highly recommend looking at the Midi Control Centre software from Arturia. It allows you to set everything up. The BSP isn't something that will always work out of the box with every setup - that's part of what makes it flexible, but it does mean you might need to tweak things a bit. If you're getting noise on the sync, then make sure you're using the little USB ground hum eliminator (it's the Y-shaped USB adapter), that fixes those kinds of issues 99 percent of the time. Hope that helps move things along!
Already tried some setups in the midi control center. The Y splitter is connected to the computer and a usb hub. Going to try and connect it to external USB battery pack. Thanks for the reply and tips.
Can you make a demo on showing how to control Behringer Model D via Arthuria Beat Step Pro; lot of people seem to be using those gears but there is no good video on showing the connectivity of both of them . Also I am planning to connect the midi from Arturia beat step pro and key step to the model d using the Y MIDI cable, so that I can have an arp from BEAT STEP continuously playing while I play live lead in to the model d using the Keystep. Pleas show a video of how to connect model d with the beahringde MODEL D! Thnxxx.
+kvfive especially now you have scenes, that could really open up some interesting opportunities. Being able to assign channels to the drum pads is a hell of a start mind.
Great vid!!! Very helpfull. Maybe a weird question. But is there a way to program the beatstep 2 specific instrument (drummachines) in the tr8 drummachine? So building a pattern in the beatstep on drumrack, with changes per pattern using other instrument from the tr8 without touching my tr8? Or should I just make my own kits on the tr8? Thanks in advance, Kind regards!
I don't know the TR8, but I think that'd require some program change and CC stuff that might be out of the reach of the BSP. There might be some stuff you could do if you introduced something like a Midihub, but that might be a case of overcomplicating things honestly...
A late buyer of the Keystep Pro but this is still the best 2.0 explanation :) Thanks! I guess in Eurorack you can only control 1 kind of drum if you don‘t use a Midi to CV converter with multiple CV outs in your rack. Or what is your solution for the drum track with Eurorack?
Your video is great...saved me alot of time! I was wondering if you ever used that "PRST LINK" button? I have read , watched Arturia show how to use it but never got it to work. Is this "scenes mode" pretty much the same thing? If not maybe you know how to use?
+Zsazsa Gabor thanks for the feedback! All the "PRST LINK" does is change all of the sequences at once when you use the arrows on the sequencer/drum tracks so you can change 3 sequences all at once with a single button press. Weirdly, in the manual it's described as "Seq Link" which makes much more sense. In the Midi Control Centre, you can change its behaviour between "absolute" (eg. Changing the preset to '3' on the drums also sets the presets on the sequencers to '3') or "relative" (eg. If move the drum sequence up by one, the other two sequences also move up by one from their current setting). Hope that helps!
Thanks for the info...very useful indeed. Do you know if there is a way to use the Beatstep Pro to change the sequences on the minibrute 2s? Maybe incorporate that into the scenes (or am I just dreaming)....Thanks again..
I think Program Change is one of the features of control mode, but I've not used it in that way - I'm afraid you might have to dive into the manual to answer that one!
Thanks for an excellent tutorial. I am using the BSP slaved to Logic Pro and it works really well with my cv gear and Roland boutique drum machines, I prefer writing the sequences on the BSP rather than fiddling around on the boutiques. One thing that’s puzzling me is why it is limited to 16 patterns in a chained sequence. Say I have a song in Logic that is 128 bars long and I’ve programmed 16 different drum patterns 4 bars long. It’s only possible to chain half the song and save that as a scene right? I’d have to save another scene of 16 chained patterns for the second half of the song and manually press scene 2 in control mode half way through the song? Do you know of any ways around this? I wish I could chain the scenes...! I.E song mode! Any advice or pointers to any other videos would be much appreciated! Cheers 🍻 System Exclusive
Oscillator Sink thanks for the quick reply. Even if the scenes could play consecutively that would be helpful. Surely this would be easy for Arturia to implement. I read somewhere it is a memory issue. If Drum machines from the 80’s could do it...
John Brooks thanks John but it doesn’t solve the issue. The way I got around this was to send program change from Logic to the BSP to select infinite combinations of the 16 patterns per song.
System Exclusive Cool! This is what Im looking for. So you have Logic control a scenes? Or more specifically individual patterns? ... and skip scene mode all together.
I think you can do this from within the Midi Control Centre software, but I don't think you can do it on the unit itself - but I haven't tried honestly.
+Zsazsa Gabor no, that's related to the "last step" feature which you use to alter the length of the sequence (I show this in the first BSP V2.0 video if you're interested).
Oscillator Sink hey man thanks, will need to review a few times. Was so excited bout this update wanted to hook up volca sample, then got lost! Cheers!
Hi! thanks a lot for the video! my question, can you connect the scenes with each other that they change automatically to the second scene when the first scene is over? thanks!!
Is there a limitation of how many times you can repeat a single pattern? I mean, on the drumbrute song mode if you repeat the same pattern 5 times it will take 5 slot of the 16 available of the song mode. Therefore it's impossible to create songs with a proper lenght. What about this?
I've checked the manual and the pattern chains are limited to 16 patterns here as well, but you could, for example have a scene per section of the song and trigger a scene manually in control mode. That said, if what you want is to play back entire pre sequenced songs you might want to look at something less performance oriented, like maybe the Squarp Pyramid?
@@OscillatorSink Yes i know that it's limited to 16 patterns. But i read elsewhere that's just the limitation of how many DIFFERENT patterns you can use in one scene, not the limit of how many times you can repeat them. I read if you repeat a single pattern x50 times that's just one of the 16 "slot" you have. Can you confirm that? Try to make a scene where you repeat the same A pattern x 16 and then have a B pattern after that. Play it and see if it works. If it's limited to 16 patterns in lenght it won't reach pattern B. Otherwise it'll mean there's no limitation in lenght/loops
Solve for x. The *project* has the 16 sequences (per track - you can be on different patterns per track), not the scene - the scenes are how you arrange those sequences.
Hello , I'm getting what seems like a bug when changing from Scene 1 to Scene 2 . The first pattern (Scene 2) has either parts missing or additional parts from the last sequence of Scene 1. I've Hard reset BSP and reinstalled the firmware but it's still happening Just wondered if anyone else has had this happen to them or if anyone would like to see if its a bug or not? I've programmed 13 parts(all 4 measures each) for Scene 1 and 15 for Scene 2. When i get to the end of Scene 1 I go to Control and press Scene 2 it flashes then goes to Scene 2 at the end of the bar but as i said throws a wonky one (all still in time) any ideas? :)
+Callum Clarke as a simple starting point (and I'm not that familiar with the Matrix, so I'm just going off the manual), if you want the BSP to be "in charge", start by connecting the Clock Out on the BSP to the Sync In on the Brute (it's not with the block of CV controls, it's a bit further along). Then you can pick one of the sequencer channels, and take the Gate Out of the BSP into the Gate In on the Brute (same again, it's separate to the block of CV Inputs). Then Pitch Out on the BSP into the Pitch CV input on the Brute. Finally you could do something like patching the Vel out into the Filter or Metalizer CV inputs - but it's kinda whatever you like there, experiment. That all being said, if you're just straight up sequencing you might be better working over MIDI because then you can take advantage of the velocity mapping in the matrix which will probably lead to better expression with the velocity. As an aside, I think one thing that could be very cool would be to use a "pure" CV sequencer, like the little Korg SQ-1, that doesn't quantize the CV to actual notes, and clock it from the Matrix and just have it sequencing some of the more interesting parameters on the CV panel directly. You could actually try that with the BSP's Pitch outputs as well, but it'll be stepped - probably still loads of fun though! I hope that made sense and it's given you a starting point. Have fun and let me know how you get on!
@@OscillatorSink, I see a use for chaining 100 or more patterns to make a real song. I don't see a use for functions that help you chain the same 16 patterns over and over. I don't wanna make watered down tracks!
@@jmfhsmith4923 unless my maths is off - a 100 x 64 step sequences at 16ths resolution at 120 bpm is 13 minutes long. 16x64 steps at 120 bpm is about 2 minutes of unique patterns - longer if you repeat them, obviously. But on the drum part and 2 monophonic parts that the BSP offers, are there never going to be repeated sections? Maybe not in your music I guess, and more power to you if that's the case, but I'm just trying to illustrate what it means in real terms. If you want something with a more comprehensive song mode you could look at something like the Squarp Pyramid - that will probably give you the flexibility that your music needs. Or if you're willing to get on the waiting list - there's always the Cirklon. Now that is a serious box.
@@OscillatorSink, They look great! But None of those sequencers have velocity sensitive pads and don't seem as fun or easy to deal with. For drums I'm using a DR-660 drum machine with MIDECO Midi to trigger/velocity module. 150 user patterns and less gimmicky pattern chaining. I wish I knew the right set up to be able to use the 660 to control CV/gate. I have 4 Dr-660s. They are so fun. It's just the simplest trigger sequencer on the planet.
Oscillator Sink i love my beatstep pro and yesterday i made a 5min question answer journey for arturia bsp... but i just sayed the the on off switch on the backside feels like it would loosen into the insude of the chasis after switching 150x on off... i really forgot to mention the timenudgefunction... it was boggering me since i bought the bsp... i dont know how i forget this to mention! can you guys please mention this if you make your helpingjourney for arturia bsp!!!! please please do it! i can not buy some elektron stuff just for timenudging... but allmost i have to! thank you for listening
Can scenes be chained as well? If so is it possible to save scene chains like pattern chains? When switching between scenes does the wait to load pattern feature still apply?
+Victor Scherman just double checked this: scenes can't be chained and the wait to load is end of pattern rather than scene (you can see this in action in the video). Both seem like sensible features (especially wait till end of chain) so hopefully it'll be something Arturia will consider in a later update...
Just finished getting my head round this feature and came back to this vid to see if it was possible to also chain scenes seemed the next logical thing. Fingers crossed for an update to do so!! Cheers again to Oscillator Sink these vids are an essential guide especially to a newbie BSP user like myself!!
Not that I can think for the way I use it, but I guess that Arturia didn't want to ruin the workflow of people already using the BSP? All of the big features they added were optional so that if you updated the firmware for the bug fixes, you could still perform with it straight away without having to learn any new behaviour.
+mAzMiTh do you have "wait for pattern" turned on (shift and 14 in control mode)? If it's not you change instantly - I wonder if different pattern lengths can mess with stuff there?
Oscillator Sink yeah, I have that turned on. It's really strange, what's happening is when I switch scenes, there are notes sounding where there aren't any placed in the sequence. If I hit stop on the BSP, and in ableton, then restart the scene, it will play as written. It only happens to me when I'm switching from one scene to another
+mAzMiTh that's weird. I haven't had this happen. Does it happen when you have the clocking set to internal (I'm guessing you're synchronised to Ableton at the moment?)? Also, if I remember there was a 2.0.2 patch which mentioned a clocking issue - I suspect that 2.0.0 was never actually available, but that's worth checking in the Midi Control Centre. Otherwise, I'd report to Arturia directly as its probably something they'd be interested in hearing about. Good luck and let me know how you get on...
Oscillator Sink ya, I have USB sync on coming from ableton and after playing with it a few more hours today, it doesn't always happen. I'll check the MCC software to see if there was s a fix, but your prob right that 2.0.0 was never released
I just got a Beatstep Pro and I have to say that your tutorials are the best I've seen. Thanks for the info.
You lay this out clearly. It makes it easy to comprehend and dig in. Thanks so much!
Thank you - have fun with it!
I just got a BSP and this has been a huge help! Cheers!!
You could go a long way with this feature, really liking this device
Now that's very flexible and live friendly. Thanks for sharing.
This is a game changer tip, thank you very much, with this I can play more complex songs
great machine really, it's so fun to play, I have a cirklon but this is so fun and hands on that creativity flows easier, lower ceiling but also lower floor. Thanks for the explanation!
Thanks so much for this clear breakdown for the new firmware update! Way easier to understand than Arturia's official vids! Bookmarked! I use my BSP to write synthwave stuff, so Scenes is a breakthrough update!!
+Ben Asaro my pleasure, glad I could help. Have fun with the new features!
I’ve had my best step still boxed for year and a half and did not know it could do all this stuff I bought it as I got a matrix brute and your suppose to be able to connect it via cv which I could not get my head around but this is great stuff going to use it today thank you seems the best video I’ve seen keep up the great work
Thanks man watched this a few times now to nail the techniques.. Awesome 👍
Thank you so much man, I was thinking of selling this thing because it felt a bit limited for what I wanted to do, but these hidden features are exactly what I wanted (the polymeter too)
That polymeter mode is such a massive upgrade to the drum sequencer.
The obvious request right now is the Midi CC control mode.
Thanks very much for a great channel
I don't think we'll see many more updates, if any.... :/
....being able to punch in midi CC or write velocity would make this machine massively OP
Great info/demo and I'm amused by the hand gestures - especially after entering patterns. Kinda like, "Yeah! Nailed it!"
+OblivionRatula haha I think I was 'hamming it up' for the camera a bit.
I have been looking for days for a seq with these "Sceens" no one explains it, so I have not bought one yet. Now I know this one does exactly what I needed!
Great stuff, happy to help!
thank you soo much for making this tutorial!!!
you answered all my questions : )
No worries, I'm glad you found it useful!
Thank you for the great tutorial ! That beat is dope
Thank you for this tutorial. Very helpful!
GRATE ! i waiting for this futures one year ,! now it realize ! ....Big Thanks ARTURIA
Thanks for the video. Direct and to the point. A+.
Cheers buddy!
Yep, that was sooo much more usefull and clear (in the content, your video quality in image quality terms got so much improved since it :) that the Arturia video.
Very nice and instructive video. I was hoping for this. You have explained very well. Thanks so much!
You're very welcome!
Nicely explained and demonstrated. Thank you! I will be putting this to good use in the studio tomorrow! :-)
Have fun with it!
Just got mine today. Essential video this thanks.
Now to work out how this can be safely backed up to the PC with the midi control centre software which is a little confusing.
thank you for all your BS PRO videos.
extremely helpful. arturia rocks, but their youtube videos are confusing.
Hey thanks, this was a really well done tutorial. Extremely helpful.
Thank you, I'm glad it was useful!
beautiful
Cheers 🎉
Спасибо. Помогли очень. 🙏
Да пустяки
Yessss thank you
I'm late to the party, but this was interesting. Thanks.
Thanks for video. I'm still stuck on first step of getting sounds assigned to the pads.
+Kenneth Daniel what are you sound module are you using? Depending on what you're using and whether it has a "learn mode", you may need to hook the BSP up to your computer and set up each pa's midi note in the Midi Control Centre software.
5:33 - OOOOOOooooooooooh.
Thanks a bunch ❤️
The vermoma drm1 and beatstep pro are best friends.
Very best friends!
I got it now, thank you very much :-)
Great tutorial
Thanks!
the bass patterns - this is all factory sounds yes? that's quite impressively pleasing-sounding!
The bass sounds are coming from a Novation Bass Station, it'll be a patch that I built myself, not a factory preset. To be clear (I'm not presuming ignorance here, so apologies if I'm stating the obvious), the BeatStep Pro *doesn't* make any sound itself, it has to trigger other instruments over midi or CV.
Very nice video. You explain in a nice clear manner. Thank you.
Can you make a video explaining if we can use the drum sequencer with NI maschine to have the sounds of machine but make the sequences and scenes on beatstep pro. Also if the drum sequencer can be used with a synth. Also if each sequencer can be used with different devices at the same time, for example one pattern would be from one synth and the other pattern on the same sequencer from another synth.
Sadly I don't have Maschine, so I can't help there directly, but it's all about setting the Midi channel of the sequences and having the synths you want to sequence receive midi on that same channel (the setting is usually called "Receive channel" or "Rx Channel"). On the drum sequence you can even set different pads to send midi to different channels, but that has to be set up in the Midi Control Centre software on your PC.
Oscillator Sink thank you for your informative reply
Got my first jam with the BSP out there on youtube. Love the little machine and exploring it with your tips and tricks. Got a lot to learn. The only thing I have to say is that its hard to sync a VST or an iPad drummachine. Running sparkle or another plugin trough Logic pro, the beat ends up on channel 1 and channel 10.
I am using audiobus on the ipad with DM1. Try to put a video out on the problems i have. I also get a zoom noise when connecting the sync out to a Volca.
So I'm terms of the channels etc. I highly recommend looking at the Midi Control Centre software from Arturia. It allows you to set everything up. The BSP isn't something that will always work out of the box with every setup - that's part of what makes it flexible, but it does mean you might need to tweak things a bit. If you're getting noise on the sync, then make sure you're using the little USB ground hum eliminator (it's the Y-shaped USB adapter), that fixes those kinds of issues 99 percent of the time.
Hope that helps move things along!
Already tried some setups in the midi control center. The Y splitter is connected to the computer and a usb hub. Going to try and connect it to external USB battery pack. Thanks for the reply and tips.
Can you make a demo on showing how to control Behringer Model D via Arthuria Beat Step Pro; lot of people seem to be using those gears but there is no good video on showing the connectivity of both of them . Also I am planning to connect the midi from Arturia beat step pro and key step to the model d using the Y MIDI cable, so that I can have an arp from BEAT STEP continuously playing while I play live lead in to the model d using the Keystep.
Pleas show a video of how to connect model d with the beahringde MODEL D! Thnxxx.
Hi, I'd love to, but I don't have a Model D I'm afraid!
very helpfull! thank you
No problem! Happy to help.
It would be a great addition if Arturia allowed the user to set / save the midi channels with a pattern.
+kvfive especially now you have scenes, that could really open up some interesting opportunities. Being able to assign channels to the drum pads is a hell of a start mind.
@@OscillatorSink THIS THIS THIS ....
grrrratze!!! 👍
Great vid!!! Very helpfull.
Maybe a weird question. But is there a way to program the beatstep 2 specific instrument (drummachines) in the tr8 drummachine? So building a pattern in the beatstep on drumrack, with changes per pattern using other instrument from the tr8 without touching my tr8? Or should I just make my own kits on the tr8?
Thanks in advance,
Kind regards!
I don't know the TR8, but I think that'd require some program change and CC stuff that might be out of the reach of the BSP. There might be some stuff you could do if you introduced something like a Midihub, but that might be a case of overcomplicating things honestly...
A late buyer of the Keystep Pro but this is still the best 2.0 explanation :) Thanks! I guess in Eurorack you can only control 1 kind of drum if you don‘t use a Midi to CV converter with multiple CV outs in your rack. Or what is your solution for the drum track with Eurorack?
Holy moly, I just realized the thing has 8 drum gates for the drum rack. Amazing! Will get mine today. Thanks again for the tutorials!
Yup! 8 drum triggers, and 2 sets of Pitch, Gate and Velocity for synth tracks!
Dose it have instant pattern change like the volca sample? it kind of works like a pattern crossfader. curious cause I have a beatstep pro..
Your video is great...saved me alot of time! I was wondering if you ever used that "PRST LINK" button? I have read , watched Arturia show how to use it but never got it to work. Is this "scenes mode" pretty much the same thing? If not maybe you know how to use?
+Zsazsa Gabor thanks for the feedback! All the "PRST LINK" does is change all of the sequences at once when you use the arrows on the sequencer/drum tracks so you can change 3 sequences all at once with a single button press. Weirdly, in the manual it's described as "Seq Link" which makes much more sense.
In the Midi Control Centre, you can change its behaviour between "absolute" (eg. Changing the preset to '3' on the drums also sets the presets on the sequencers to '3') or "relative" (eg. If move the drum sequence up by one, the other two sequences also move up by one from their current setting).
Hope that helps!
i may have missed it, but how do you go back from a scene to normal just looping one pattern?
What is the maximum amount of patterns that can be chained together? Thanks
As per section 6.1.3. (Pattern Chains) of the manual, it's 16. You can save each chain for each track in a scene, which can then be recalled.
Thanks for the info...very useful indeed. Do you know if there is a way to use the Beatstep Pro to change the sequences on the minibrute 2s? Maybe incorporate that into the scenes (or am I just dreaming)....Thanks again..
I think Program Change is one of the features of control mode, but I've not used it in that way - I'm afraid you might have to dive into the manual to answer that one!
Thanks for an excellent tutorial.
I am using the BSP slaved to Logic Pro and it works really well with my cv gear and Roland boutique drum machines, I prefer writing the sequences on the BSP rather than fiddling around on the boutiques. One thing that’s puzzling me is why it is limited to 16 patterns in a chained sequence. Say I have a song in Logic that is 128 bars long and I’ve programmed 16 different drum patterns 4 bars long. It’s only possible to chain half the song and save that as a scene right?
I’d have to save another scene of 16 chained patterns for the second half of the song and manually press scene 2 in control mode half way through the song?
Do you know of any ways around this? I wish I could chain the scenes...! I.E song mode!
Any advice or pointers to any other videos would be much appreciated!
Cheers 🍻
System Exclusive
I think you're instincts are correct I'm afraid - there isn't any "scene chaining" unfortunately, so it is a manual operation.
Oscillator Sink thanks for the quick reply. Even if the scenes could play consecutively that would be helpful. Surely this would be easy for Arturia to implement. I read somewhere it is a memory issue. If Drum machines from the 80’s could do it...
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John Brooks thanks John but it doesn’t solve the issue. The way I got around this was to send program change from Logic to the BSP to select infinite combinations of the 16 patterns per song.
System Exclusive Cool! This is what Im looking for. So you have Logic control a scenes? Or more specifically individual patterns? ... and skip scene mode all together.
Is there a way to go back and change or delete parts of a scene ?
I don't believe so. You might be able to edit them in the editor though.
thanks for the video! Is there anyway to copy drum pattern in between projects?
I think you can do this from within the Midi Control Centre software, but I don't think you can do it on the unit itself - but I haven't tried honestly.
If i recorded a pattern with an analogue instrument, can I play that pattern without the instrument being present?
No, not with the BSP alone anyway, this is a sequencer not a sampler / recorder.
ahh, for some reason I thought it had to do with the step sequencer and would give you more steps per sequence, thus the 16, 32, 64.
+Zsazsa Gabor no, that's related to the "last step" feature which you use to alter the length of the sequence (I show this in the first BSP V2.0 video if you're interested).
Oscillator Sink hey man thanks, will need to review a few times. Was so excited bout this update wanted to hook up volca sample, then got lost! Cheers!
Hi! thanks a lot for the video! my question, can you connect the scenes with each other that they change automatically to the second scene when the first scene is over? thanks!!
+Sami Farah not as far as I can tell, but "scene chaining" would certainly be useful...
Thanks!
Is there a limitation of how many times you can repeat a single pattern? I mean, on the drumbrute song mode if you repeat the same pattern 5 times it will take 5 slot of the 16 available of the song mode. Therefore it's impossible to create songs with a proper lenght. What about this?
I've checked the manual and the pattern chains are limited to 16 patterns here as well, but you could, for example have a scene per section of the song and trigger a scene manually in control mode. That said, if what you want is to play back entire pre sequenced songs you might want to look at something less performance oriented, like maybe the Squarp Pyramid?
@@OscillatorSink Yes i know that it's limited to 16 patterns. But i read elsewhere that's just the limitation of how many DIFFERENT patterns you can use in one scene, not the limit of how many times you can repeat them. I read if you repeat a single pattern x50 times that's just one of the 16 "slot" you have. Can you confirm that? Try to make a scene where you repeat the same A pattern x 16 and then have a B pattern after that. Play it and see if it works. If it's limited to 16 patterns in lenght it won't reach pattern B. Otherwise it'll mean there's no limitation in lenght/loops
@@TheFragile79 sorry, my BSP is all packed up at the moment, but I'm 90 percent certain from memory that it's 16 patterns not 16 *unique* patterns
Thanks for the video, and if you want to delete the scene you have to do it manualy? save again the pattern i guess... correctly?
Off the top of my head I think that's right, but it'll be covered in the manual I think.
So am I right in thinking that's 16 projects, each with 16 scenes, each with 16 sequences up to 64 steps? How many people were going to St Ives again?
Solve for x.
The *project* has the 16 sequences (per track - you can be on different patterns per track), not the scene - the scenes are how you arrange those sequences.
Hello , I'm getting what seems like a bug when changing from Scene 1 to Scene 2 . The first pattern (Scene 2) has either parts missing or additional parts from the last sequence of Scene 1. I've Hard reset BSP and reinstalled the firmware but it's still happening Just wondered if anyone else has had this happen to them or if anyone would like to see if its a bug or not? I've programmed 13 parts(all 4 measures each) for Scene 1 and 15 for Scene 2. When i get to the end of Scene 1 I go to Control and press Scene 2 it flashes then goes to Scene 2 at the end of the bar but as i said throws a wonky one (all still in time) any ideas? :)
How do you clear a saved scene?
According to the manual: "scenes can be overwritten, but not cleared or erased.". So if you want to get rid of a scene, just overwrite it.
Do you know how to connect it and utilise cv routing as my brute has loads of cv inputs not just in and out but all parameters of my brute ?
+Callum Clarke as a simple starting point (and I'm not that familiar with the Matrix, so I'm just going off the manual), if you want the BSP to be "in charge", start by connecting the Clock Out on the BSP to the Sync In on the Brute (it's not with the block of CV controls, it's a bit further along). Then you can pick one of the sequencer channels, and take the Gate Out of the BSP into the Gate In on the Brute (same again, it's separate to the block of CV Inputs). Then Pitch Out on the BSP into the Pitch CV input on the Brute. Finally you could do something like patching the Vel out into the Filter or Metalizer CV inputs - but it's kinda whatever you like there, experiment.
That all being said, if you're just straight up sequencing you might be better working over MIDI because then you can take advantage of the velocity mapping in the matrix which will probably lead to better expression with the velocity.
As an aside, I think one thing that could be very cool would be to use a "pure" CV sequencer, like the little Korg SQ-1, that doesn't quantize the CV to actual notes, and clock it from the Matrix and just have it sequencing some of the more interesting parameters on the CV panel directly. You could actually try that with the BSP's Pitch outputs as well, but it'll be stepped - probably still loads of fun though!
I hope that made sense and it's given you a starting point. Have fun and let me know how you get on!
What good is it to have a function that helps you hear the same patterns over again? Is there a way to chain projects or is this box even serious?
You don't see a use case for pattern chaining?
@@OscillatorSink, I see a use for chaining 100 or more patterns to make a real song. I don't see a use for functions that help you chain the same 16 patterns over and over. I don't wanna make watered down tracks!
@@jmfhsmith4923 unless my maths is off - a 100 x 64 step sequences at 16ths resolution at 120 bpm is 13 minutes long. 16x64 steps at 120 bpm is about 2 minutes of unique patterns - longer if you repeat them, obviously. But on the drum part and 2 monophonic parts that the BSP offers, are there never going to be repeated sections? Maybe not in your music I guess, and more power to you if that's the case, but I'm just trying to illustrate what it means in real terms.
If you want something with a more comprehensive song mode you could look at something like the Squarp Pyramid - that will probably give you the flexibility that your music needs. Or if you're willing to get on the waiting list - there's always the Cirklon. Now that is a serious box.
@@OscillatorSink, They look great! But None of those sequencers have velocity sensitive pads and don't seem as fun or easy to deal with. For drums I'm using a DR-660 drum machine with MIDECO Midi to trigger/velocity module. 150 user patterns and less gimmicky pattern chaining. I wish I knew the right set up to be able to use the 660 to control CV/gate. I have 4 Dr-660s. They are so fun. It's just the simplest trigger sequencer on the planet.
At last, at last, at last...
one question still alive! how can i timenudge and microtime... sequencersection not drumsection
To my knowledge, I don't think you can. I think you only have swing as a way of altering the groove on the sequencer tracks.
Oscillator Sink i love my beatstep pro and yesterday i made a 5min question answer journey for arturia bsp... but i just sayed the the on off switch on the backside feels like it would loosen into the insude of the chasis after switching 150x on off...
i really forgot to mention the timenudgefunction... it was boggering me since i bought the bsp... i dont know how i forget this to mention!
can you guys please mention this if you make your helpingjourney for arturia bsp!!!! please please do it! i can not buy some elektron stuff just for timenudging... but allmost i have to!
thank you for listening
Can scenes be chained as well? If so is it possible to save scene chains like pattern chains?
When switching between scenes does the wait to load pattern feature still apply?
+Victor Scherman just double checked this: scenes can't be chained and the wait to load is end of pattern rather than scene (you can see this in action in the video). Both seem like sensible features (especially wait till end of chain) so hopefully it'll be something Arturia will consider in a later update...
Oscillator Sink chaining scenes would definitely be a great feature to add. Though it's already a great update.
Just finished getting my head round this feature and came back to this vid to see if it was possible to also chain scenes seemed the next logical thing. Fingers crossed for an update to do so!! Cheers again to Oscillator Sink these vids are an essential guide especially to a newbie BSP user like myself!!
Is there any disadvantage to turning Scenes mode on? Why is it optional?
Not that I can think for the way I use it, but I guess that Arturia didn't want to ruin the workflow of people already using the BSP? All of the big features they added were optional so that if you updated the firmware for the bug fixes, you could still perform with it straight away without having to learn any new behaviour.
Have you encountered anomalies yet when switching scenes? I'm gettin extra notes and almost like a beat repeat
+mAzMiTh do you have "wait for pattern" turned on (shift and 14 in control mode)? If it's not you change instantly - I wonder if different pattern lengths can mess with stuff there?
Oscillator Sink yeah, I have that turned on. It's really strange, what's happening is when I switch scenes, there are notes sounding where there aren't any placed in the sequence. If I hit stop on the BSP, and in ableton, then restart the scene, it will play as written. It only happens to me when I'm switching from one scene to another
+mAzMiTh that's weird. I haven't had this happen. Does it happen when you have the clocking set to internal (I'm guessing you're synchronised to Ableton at the moment?)? Also, if I remember there was a 2.0.2 patch which mentioned a clocking issue - I suspect that 2.0.0 was never actually available, but that's worth checking in the Midi Control Centre. Otherwise, I'd report to Arturia directly as its probably something they'd be interested in hearing about. Good luck and let me know how you get on...
Oscillator Sink ya, I have USB sync on coming from ableton and after playing with it a few more hours today, it doesn't always happen. I'll check the MCC software to see if there was s a fix, but your prob right that 2.0.0 was never released