FL Studio + Beatstep Pro

[thelowerrhythm]

Hey there! Coming from the modular synth world, I'm relatively new to this kind of gear. In regards to the rig I'm putting together, I want to avoid having to invest in another hardware drum machine, so I was hoping to just slap FL Studio on a notebook computer and do it that way. Is there an easy to to use Beatstep Pro to force FL Studio to simply play when its told to, and conform to tempo and sequence length? I'm not even sure if it can tell FL Studio to do the latter two things.

I have no interest in using the Beatstep Pro to control parameters or live program or anything of that sort. I just need FL Studio to fall in line with everything else I've got going, just like a DrumBrute would.

Thanks and apologies if my question is worded strangely... MIDI and I are old friends, but interfacing with computers... not so much.

[galingong]

It should work, at least it does with Ableton Live. If you mean BSP being master clock and the DAW being slave, that would. You actually wouldn't use the BSP clock out, because that's for analog clock, but you can easily send MIDI clock and transport data through MIDI or USB to your computer. Then you just have to set your DAW to accept incoming MIDI data on given port. I did this for some time for triggering drums from my PC with the BSP sequencing them, but I got so tired of computers that I've ditched it and bought a hardware sampler.
Edit: Tempo and transport (play, stop, record, etc.) should be fine but sequence length won't work since it's not standard MIDI data.

[thelowerrhythm]

Thanks for the info! That makes total sense. Being able to screw with the sequence length independently might be a good thing in the end even.