So mine arrived surprisingly early today and I can confirm that it IS the new design with the larger, hard corner, recessed track pad.
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I seem to be having issues with Midi Echo with my Pyramid? I have no idea whatās causing this! My unit will just freeze up and its functionality becomes very limited.
The issue is resolved when i turn Anti-Echo on, but then my controller doesnāt send any data to my synths directlyāwhich is kinda a bummer.
Set up is:
MIDI In-
Korg MicroKey > Kenton USB Host > Pyramid
Midi Out 1-
Pyramid > MDUW > Blofeld
Midi Out 2-
Pyramid > A4 > OT > KP3+
Iām not entirely certain the issue IS with Echo, there seems to be a reappearing of the issue when Anti-Echo is turned on. But I havenāt been able to properly test it as of yet, due to my not being able to expect it.
Any ideas would be appreciated. Iāve resumed my email communication with a rep of Squarp. But obviously the sooner a solution is attained the better.
Thereās a bug with Anti-Echo in the current OS, but it has been fixed with the 2.0 update that is due any day now.
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Damn! Then I suppose the issue Iām having is NOT Midi echo! I have nothing but a midi keyboard going into my Pyramid! What the heck is going on? Is it just a bug? I was able to jam on my Blofeld from my nanokey studio but when it came time to mess with the Pyramid it was mostly unresponsive!
PyraOS 2.0 is up as of today. have yet to install it though
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Great timing, I just ordered a new one a few days back 
I sold my Pyramid a few months back and ended up getting a Carbon due to the extra CV outs, big mistake - so I returned the Carbon (way too many issues, too limited and development of new features has stopped!)
Looking forward to the new Pyramid arriving!
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I just got mine recently and have been waiting for PyraOS 2.0 before really diving in! I have a total newb question ā¦ can I sequence all 16 tracks from the Machinedrum UW+ II on separate tracks in the Pyramid? Sam question re: 12 tracks on Rytm.
Yes you can.
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I canāt get the MD to receive transport for some reason. it does respond to incoming midi notes though. I went through the pyramids MIDI out options and everything seems set properly - anything obvious coming to mind why the MD wouldnt respond to transport messages from the pyramid?
Sorry if you did it, but have you properly set the MD to be slaved ?
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Thanks - Iāll check again but should be fine as I just unplugged the OT which was its master prior. Cheers
My best buy.even better now with patterns
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Happy to see your back with Pyramid !
Itās a nice piece of gear.
Got my shipping notice today, looking forward to all the new features 
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I donāt like the Pyramid for what I needed a sequencer to do. I like long, song-length sequences that I can arrange ahead of time (basically a DAW but for MIDI only, and in a dedicated box instead of a distraction machine with a mouse and keyboard). The Pyramid has an awesome interface and great capabilities for live performance, but it lacks some basic features I need for linear compositionā¦ namely, it doesnāt display which freaking bar of the sequence Iām on unless I go into a sub-window, and even then sometimes I have to toggle back and forth to see it.
Also, the Pyramid does not want all its tracks to be equivalent. In a DAW-like environment, all of the tracks can be followed simultaneously by the cursor position, and I can jump from track to track while staying in the same place relative to the whole song. In the Pyramid, you have to specify for each track, one at a time, how many bars the sequence will be. It assumes that you want polyrhythms, wheels within wheels. When I switch from one track to the next, it takes me simply to wherever I left off the last time I was at that track, which may be completely elsewhere in the sequenceāand again, I have no way of immediately seeing this because the bar number is not displayed. Iāve made many erroneous edits because of this!
Iām still at an impasse for the right non-DAW sequencer for my weird requirements: basically, I want a sequencer to do what a live performer with several extra arms and MIDI controllers would be able to do with my Octatrack as it is playing. I donāt have enough limbs to adjust parameters on multiple tracks simultaneously, going in different directions, while muting and unmuting āAMP VOLā exactly in time with pattern changes so I donāt cut off reverb and delay trails, and fading tracks in and out for smoother transitions. Iāve tried doing this with an MPC, but I didnāt care for the interface. Pyramid, same problem. My next gamble is a blast from my own past I just snagged on eBay yesterday, the first MIDI sequencer I ever owned, the venerable Yamaha QY-70. Hopefully the third timeās a charm.
Iāll be putting my Pyramid up for sale in the gear forum shortly if anyone is interested!
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OMG Iām in love with my Pyramid after tonight. I slaved Live to the Pyramid and fired up Native Instruments Absynth 5. In the performance section of Absynth it has many parameters laid out with their associated CC numbers. On the Pyramid use multiple LFOs in the effects section and map to the the CCsā¦wow you can get some really nice movement to the sound.
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Gotta say Iām loving the new additions in 2.0, the speed with which the foundations of a track can be laid down has always been the strong point of the Pyramid, especially WRT to rhytmics, and with 2.0 the new workflow enhancements like the simplified copying pasting and deleting make it even better.
I am looking forward to trying some denser stuff with it, once I integrate if fully into my setup.
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Happy to read that man, I was not sure of your new statment about Pyramid (I always read your opinion on gear, cause often I find them right and reasonable).
Even if the Pyramid isnāt really perfect and still lacking functions (specialy about long tracks editing) I find itās one of the best hardware sequencer of the moment. Except, maybe the Cirklon, that Iām waiting for, but thatās not the same price.
Thereās still some bugs that obliged to reboot, but hope theyāll be corrected on next OS. Sage advice would be to save as soon as you reach satisfying step in your project.
I use to have big projects (lot of fx, tracks and patterns), clearly sometimes Pyramid could failed managing new actions. Once reloaded the problem didnāt reappears till next crash.
Seems to be difficult to understand where the bug came from (not always on the same action, as if it was due to a too big amount of data to be managed), so for the moment, Iām unable to signal to Squarp a real procedure to reproduce the crash in view to correct the code.
Never mind, itās a great pleasure to use it, lot of fun inside.
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Are you getting crashes when using the CC step mode? Thatās where Iāve consistently gotten problems and havenāt been able to make much headway with Squarp. When will this feel bullet proof enough to confidently abuse live?
My crashes arrived on copy/paste, in pattern mode and more generally in edition work (suppressing, moving notes, often changing pages and editing fx). For the moment cc didnāt seems to been problematic.
I donāt have sensation to do complex things before crashes, I they seems to be erratic than related to a specific procedure.
Iām in communication with Squarp. They seen one off my post in a Audiofanzine forum, and they contacted me to have more informations. They are very cool, this behaviour is so rare from development staff.
So they are waiting for some path to find and destroy any bug. They asked me to sen them any clew that can help them seek problems. So donāt hesitate to send them picture of screen even if you canāt reproduce the crash.
Did you slave Pyramid to OT ?
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