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Hardware Sequencers => BeatStep Pro => Beatstep Pro - General Discussions => Topic started by: dexter on September 13, 2015, 01:17:26 am
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Questions:
- How do we make a hardware reset and wipe off the unit memory?
- How to make a complete backup of the unit? Should I have to backup all the projects one by one?
- Is there several harware revisions and what are my chances to be the happy owner of a messy one?
- How to drag/copy/paste notes from one projet to another? Simply?
Nasty Stuff:
Complete lost of synk when a project is saved, when BSP is synked as slave. A silence, then it resumes poaying from somewhere. Aslo for saving a pattern in slave mode.
Transpose Settings in Midi Editor - Unable to change the channel!!!, the Midi port - USB or Midi. The current transpose sequencer (Transpose chain off) works only with SEQ 1, seq 2 is dead.
So, I can not get it: are the midi settings common for ALL the projects or individual ones? And if they are individual, you should consider that dragging a Midi settings from another project to the currently loaded does not work. I presume the second case true, because now I have 3 different types of MIDI settings for 4 projects. Not to mention how the Midi Editor autoselects the knobs and buttons ...
In my case I use the encoders in mode 2 Relative, you also should notice that setting and turning a knob in mode 3 shows a nice Err message requiring a reboot.
Working with the unit and the BSP reminds me the joyfull years, when the first grooweboxes like the MC303 came out and the esoteric experience to program them with a buggy java editor and sysex hacks, praying for free bytes of memory and not to make the daily harware reset before the playback ends. It was a long time ago, when the music was away from the computer.
Ideas:
- To be able to disable the Repeat Ribbon or to asign it to sotething usefull - transpose? or pattern lenght?
- Default lenght, playback mode, grid for patterns of a project.
- Wipe a Project (realy usefull!)
- To be able to delete a drum element - not just to mute it. Like : delete all the kicks in a 64-lenght pattern
Stuff:
Performance observations: Encoder speed: Encoders with fixed cran and no real acceleration (like the Maschines, Akai, M-Audio who use infinite "stereo" pots) is good for pitchin a note with a tone, but for midi controller is a bad choise. A real dirty acceleration is a must. And I personaly wonder the resistence of the static electricty charges. Winter is comming and so the big pullovers!
All those small buttons make me scream! And put a vaseline on my fingers when I want to make a drum roll, sticky buttons!
A great lack of playing tools : Nuggle, undo, commit the last played loop with no rec presssed (Geist), overdub, autosave of the patterns (it have some good point not to save them also) - I can not imagine how the synk will go then.
Cheers