I’m not 100% sure exactly what I’m looking for, to be honest. Just looking to try a few out to see what might work for me. I’m on the Cirklon waiting list, but if I can achieve something similar with what I have, all the better. Ideally I’d want anything to work with Push, as I try to stay away from mouse clicking for composition.
Is HY-32 available as a m4l device? I can only find a vst version. Looks really nice, but as I said, I’d prefer not to be mouse clicking like a madman.
afaik there’s no way around latency with plugins, if you monitor audio through ableton there’s always be latency and it really does best to compensate based on the individual plugins but it’s not accurate.
however it’s easily avoidable with creating separate tracks for recording and for monitoring, for example you can have one midi channel with external instrument to monitor your audio with effects and another audio track to record audio from that channel with monitoring off. once you done recording you can just throw every plugin you had on the midi channel onto the dry recording and no latency problems.
and it gets really simple if you setup a template with all your synth mapped to midi tracks and a recordings group…
What’s your workflow for using m4l sequencers? I used Fors Roulette in a track today and it was great, but I felt like I was giving up too much control as I couldn’t easily see where it was being used in the track unless I looked at the automation.
I don’t even use a mouse I just click on my MacBook trackpad. Being able to be anywhere and make tracks is incredible to me. I have midi controllers but typically don’t use them unless I am plugged in at my studio.
Sequencers don’t really benefit that much from physical interfaces for me outside of modulation and I just automate or use lfos for that.
I get it though. A lot of ppl will pay thousands of dollars to not have to use a mouse but to me it’s not really worth the investment. Ive owned a cirklon and cant really say I miss it even though it was a nicely built piece of gear. More of a luxury item for me than an actual need.
I definitely hope the new push supports max 4 live more though. That would be pretty cool since it’s an easy controller to quickly plug and play. I think ableton will roll a new one out soon. Just my guess.
I just drop them on a track with a sampler in front and get to work. With the chorders I tweak a synth and play keys to trigger it. Typically that synth is wavetable because I love how it sounds and how easy it is to make unique sounds with it quickly.
Personally I have more control over everything than I would with hardware because it’s way faster. You just have to spend the time and figure out what works for you. Dragging in an envelope mod and lfo plugin and mapping to parameters can yield great results.
Noah Pred was one of the designers, and it looks bananas:
I bought Seqund (the VST version of Alexkid’s sequencers, packaged up with improvements in collaboration with Tadashi Suginomori of HY). I like it a lot. It can’t be MIDI mapped unfortunately, but it’s fantastic in spite of that.
Oh cool, there are so many incredible sequencer that this flew right under the radar for me. Damn, I love this thing.
How do you like Seqund? Is it safe to say that it is similar to the AlexKid plugins, just in VST form? Essentially that would make it a must buy for anyone who doesn’t have ableton. I am guessing it must be beastly for House sequences like all his standalone M4L stuff.
Seqund is awesome. I haven’t used Alexkid’s M4L stuff (I’m still spinning back up on Ableton generally), so I can’t make a comparison. I’m using it to create patterns without having to use the piano roll, which I generally don’t enjoy. I’m not currently taking advantage of probability, but the way that it’s implemented is clever and intuitive. The interface and the feature set feel very cohesive and intentional.
Current shortcomings: Ableton can’t see the AUv3 plugin, so the only 2x versions available are VST and VST3, but (per Alex) the VST3 appears to do some strange MIDI filtration under certain circumstances, so he just recommends using the VST. Works for me, but worth mentioning. Also, the aforementioned inability to map a MIDI controller to the plugin (confirmed by Alex).
I think that it’s worth the regular 59€ asking price, from what I’ve seen so far, if you’re looking for this kind of a sequencer. Current price is 39€, which seems very reasonable to me.
I don’t suppose you happen to know if his discontinued Ableton rhythm devices showed up anywhere? I liked the look of his house drum sequencers, but most of the stuff on his website talks about melodics rather than drums. I was interested in this one, but it seems to have vanished from the interwebs…
Using the Focusrite software, you have to set up the PRO40 to be ADAT slave synced, set the frequency (48khz in my case), set the channels if needed, then store the parameters in the PRO40 standalone memory.
Just connect the PRO40 ADAT in/out to the Digiface and you get 8+8 channels.
my guess would be November, maybe something around summer but pretty sure they don’t do more then twice a year, but try sending them email saying that you’ve missed the last sale and you want to upgrade and they might send you some coupon or something…
