Seems more like an oversight which can be easily fixed. What do you think @OxiInstruments?
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Sorry, not sure if I’m the right person to help with this, I’ve tried but barely understand how the harmoziner works. Got the harmonizer to work where I put some long held notes in sequencer one in Chord mode; and then toggled sequencer two (Mono mode) to follow the Harmonizer with sequencer one. Got that to work. But when I toggle the arpeggiator to on it still doesn’t arpeggiate, until you play it in by hand…
Maybe someone else can chime in still?
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Wait! @tendingtropic
I thought sequencer two had to follow and apply the arp there. But the arp now works on sequencer one!
Not sure how the details will work but I it to work actually!
(It seems you don’t really need to to the harmonise thing, you just need to use a Chord Mode sequencer to apply arp).
ok thanks all, so if I understand correctly it is possible to program your arp in the sequencer/arranger, but only in chord mode?
Sorry what’s missing here?
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@OxiInstruments
The question is what the best way is to manually program the arpeggiator to the eequencer/arranger so that during playback the arp plays without the need of having to manually trigger it
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Still figuring things out, but we’re trying to figure out how we can program notes to get arpeggiated instead of live playing the arp.
Translated in a question:
- what is the reason that this works with the “Chord mode” sequencer, but doesn’t work with the “Poly mode”? For me it would seem an intuitive way to programme long poly notes in poly mode and then switch on the arp.
Could you make that an option or is there a reason you didn’t make that an option?
Best! LTMD
Manuel can chime in, but my understanding of the current state is that you can only program an arpeggiated sequence in Chord mode. Chord mode has ‘its own built-in arpeggiator’.
I do believe, however, that you CAN record your arp into the sequencer as you play it (in non-chord mode), which will show up on your sequencer as the individual notes of the arpeggiator which you can then edit normally from there.
I do think there is some utility/demand for bringing this programmed arp capability to the non-chord modes so that you can program them as sequences that get fed to the apreggiator, but I don’t know how much rework that would entail since it seems chord mode is ‘special’ in this regard (has its own arp).
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awesome reply!!
The addition of the arpeggiator to both polyphonic and monophonic modes is already considered and noted on our to-do list.
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I think the original pads look better with more visibility. Obviously personal preference.
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Ok thank you, so for the time being; not possible to program the arp besides in chord mode. Which is a pity, because I’d like to make a project where the chord mode plays chords, and I have an arp on another (monophonic) track… I can ofcourse program each step of the arp myself. but this is a bit tedious
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I want to clarify two things:
- You can have multiple or all of the 4 sequencers (“tracks”) in chord or any other mode, there’s no limitation here.
- The arp in chord mode will play each single note of a chord, not the whole chord. This means that you can also play monophonic synths with it.
Despite that I’d rather have full control and freedom for my arps so I’m 100% with you. Actually I’m nagging Manu because of this for quite a bit hehe
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Thanks, great addition @klaustrophil
However i just want an easy and quick way to program a sequence consisting of bassarps that hold 1 note mostly for the duration of 32 steps, then moves to another note, etc.
I fear this is not possible from chord mode? (I dont want the arp hopping through notes from a chord)?
Chords will always contain more than one note. But since we’re talking about bass notes, there’s another feature which might help you a bit: The OXI is able to output the bass note of a chord to a different MIDI channel. Sometimes this could come in handy but of course it has it’s limitations.
Despite that, I use another approach for simple bass arps (and sequences in general) with a similar amount of control:
- Lets say you want a 8th notes arp on the note D# spread over 3 octaves. The first step is that you enter the 8ths manually.
- To control the progression you can use one or more mod lanes instead of manual step programming. In this example you set a mod lane to modulate “pitch”. This means that the note offset of the whole sequence is changed.
- The range of the mod lane can be set to 0-7 which means that you now can enter precise transposition curves ranging over an octave on the pad matrix. If you want to transpose the whole progression you can just turn the encoder to shift everything up/down.
- Since you want the progression to happen slowly you can set the time resolution of the mod lane to something like 1/4 or 1 bar.
- If you want to add another dimension by transposing the sequence by whole octaves, a second mod lane with the root octave as a target can be used in the same way.
- To spice things up you can also use the “random perform” feature to add a chance for higher octaves, add retriggers etc.
- Your base sequence is still just the 8th notes but of course it doesn’t need to stay this way. You could turn this into a phrase arp by modifying the sequence directly.
- Mod lanes can be easily disabled while their content is kept. This can be used to add variation or to build up the scene over time.
- Playback modes (forward, backward, ping-pong, random step, random skip) can also be used to quickly change the arp.
This might read like a lot of work but it’s easily done in less than 30 seconds when you know what you want.
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exactly, this makes me a bit sad.
However, thanks for the suggestions and your time @klaustrophil
and while I like using lfos/modulation for experimentation and such, I was also considering the oxi for live use, and then I like to have my arrangements prepared and ‘predictable’ so that I can launch them and focus on e.g. live keyboard playing.
Fact of the matter seems that to make/program a bass arp 8th or 16th pattern, it seems I have to manually program each note for the time being. And then, if i want to change the gate of each note, probably have to do that manually again (or is there a select all feature?).
It would be ideal, if you had an arp function in the mono (or poly) sequencer, and that you could just select lets say the first note on the first step, and have that note be held/latched as an 16th arp sequence, and then draw in the next note on the 17th step, and let that note be held for 16 steps, and so on… it seems like basic functionality to me, the octatrack (which is ancient) has it!
Been following along on this. I think what you’re describing will be doable when OXI adds the feature to have the arp follow the sequence in mono or poly mode, as it does with chord mode.
And you could slow the sequence down to 1 bar so it only traveled 4 steps for a 4 bar loop, while keeping the arp rate at whatever you wanted.
This sounds a lot like how Ableton works, with the piano roll and the arp midi effect.
yes, well I really hope oxi firmware will implement better arp sequencing (without the need of triggering it live) in the monophonic / polyphonic sequencer modes
till then i guess its no oxi for me…
This is totally the case with the technique I described. Mod lanes are very deterministic unless you don’t want it so. It’s all recallable and easy to modify too.
There’s a dedicated encoder for the gate length directly available in the main menu. It allows you to change the gate length of all notes in the sequence at once. A press on the encoder also allows you to reset the length to the saved value. You can also change the division of the sequencer with a button press to make the arp slower or faster. Or you use the loop performance feature to temporarily change the start and end of the sequence on the fly.
Sure, we already discussed this. I requested this feature some time ago and I’m very positive that it will come. And to be fair, recording an arp in the OT is rather cumbersome and costs you two tracks. 
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thanks again @klaustrophil, hope that @OxiInstruments can grant our wishes soon 
hopefully before the black edition limited editions are out of stock haha, so I can buy one
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I think Santa Claus has shipped out an Oxi One dark edition to me. We might sing a christmas song with the modular and prophet 6 for him 
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