Has anybody of you fellow Elektronauts played and sequenced the KOALA Sampler with a Beatstep Pro ?
Not a Beatstep, but I set up Koala so that I can run it from my Circuit Rhythm. The way I did it was super tedious but it worked.
I think that by default the pads just correspond to MIDI notes starting pretty low on the keyboard. You can also set it to listen to all channels. So without doing anything you can run it that way. But I couldn’t figure out how to control the fx without mapping the whole thing so I just went into settings, turned on MIDI mapping, went to map MIDI and went through it.
The hitch for me was that the Circuit Rhythm can send its 8 tracks over MIDI but it can’t send them on the same channel. So I had to map out each channel.
So that’s how I know how to do it. Go into settings. Go to map MIDI and tell it what pads you want to control the pads in Koala. Tell if what knobs or sliders you want to control the fx. It’s straightforward to do but again, tedious especially if you’re doing it for multiple channels like I did.
Also, you can have multiple notes control the same pad so that the same note can control a pad whether it’s coming from channel 1 or channel 2. But the fx can only have one cc from one channel controlling them.
My phone is also not great so there’s some latency. So I had to put notes I was playing from the Circuit a little behind the beat to compensate. But it worked really well once everything came together. See:
The melodic sample is coming from Koala, that’s on track 4 of the Circuit Rhythm. The fx are being sequenced on track 8. The drums and the bass are on the Circuit. But I think it all sounds nice together.
1 Like
Thanks !
I´m wondering if it is possible (and how) to use all 4 banks on koala sampler though…
But i will try.
Yeah, I just did notes. So the lowest notes are bank a and the highest are bank d.
I use Koala with a Nanokontrol2. It works really well. You use a bunch of the mute/solo buttons as pads to trigger the samples, knobs for sample manipulation, and sliders for FX.
Nanocontrol seems nice, but i would like to sequence KOALA with external sequencer…
If you just connect your Beatstep to your phone or tablet over USB then you can go into settings and MIDI. If you hit the pads on your Beatstep you can check to see if Koala is receiving notes.
If you just want to sequence the pads then by default they should just correspond to notes going up starting way down at like C1. If you set the MIDI channel to all then it will listen to any channel the Beatstep is transmitting on.
It should be simple. The only reason that I went through and mapped it the way I did was because I wanted to sequence the fx, as well.
1 Like