Arturia BeatStep Pro - First Look 

Can I just say, Alex is a superb guest presenter. Good chemistry and a nice guy... of your best so far Nick! Cheers.

For anyone wondering about Nick's remark about '5 volts' Volts isn't quantity of power--it's potential or gradient. You can pull a large practical number of amps through 5V, though at some point your cable is going to heat up some, and the lower potential means there's an upper limit before juice won't flow through the plug. There's nothing preventing you from putting a step-up transformer in the peice either to go back up to 10V...and keep in mind that control voltages are just that...just control A powerless expression pedal can create CVs--powerless--as in, not supplying any amps at all. Nick taught me just about everything I know about synthesis, but...well he's no electrical engineer. In this case, not important to the synth world. Love him, great teacher.

Really neat to get an early look at this. Thanks!

I have been eyeing this waiting for it to be released. Halfway through this video, I went to Sweetwater and pre-ordered it. This was a great first look. The demonstrator definitely knows synths and appears to love them :)

Looks like a winner. Has everything I require at a very nice price. Should have mine by Tuesday.

I can't wait to get my hands on one. This year I went back to an all hardware setup after living in DAW land for 7 years and have been waiting for this to drop to complete it. Very modest setup I have now, TB3, Bass Station 2, Drumstation v2 and A-Station (which I had in the last 100% hardware setup too!) This should tide me over nicely until I add more gear to the set up and can justify throwing the cash at a Cirklon.

Yeah, I'm sold. I've been skeptical since it was announced, but the addition of DIN sync out clenches it. This will play very well with my Analog Four and my CV gear

Where is the H9 video that you mention in the beginning, Nick? I cannot seem to find it.

The more demos I see of this the more I want one!

This is a really powerful piece of gear. Want.

Ok, this is the video I needed to see. It can trigger my pearl DRX-1! YESSSSS!

Looks good :) I'd like to see the 'velocity' control piped into a microbrute's filter and have the sequencer jump its filter values on the odd note :--)

That Simmons sounds really good.

Nice! I pre-ordered mine right after NAMM. Hoping it shows up sometime soon. I've been waiting for this one. Also really looking forward to the Social Entropy Engine.

I cannot wait to get this. So good!!!!!!!! Will control my drum kits from akai s900 with it and midi synths. Also maybe do stuff for the modular too. So many options...

Will this connect the ipad to your PC DAW (via audio interface/USB) and send the MIDI tracks as MIDI?

finally, a good preview of the beatstep pro. can you say, most anticipated midi/cv controller of 2015? oh, and they finally have the manual on their website too! can't wait for the in depth review. i'd mostly like to see how it works with software synths.

What type of hardware what I need if all I’m trying to do is manipulate the sound and affects of certain instruments

***** there's the Swing, Randomness and Probability parameters (oh, I see he went there eventually). All pads are Velocity and Channel/Note Pressure/(poly)Aftertouch capable.

that synth n rev sounds lush

Lovely music!!

Think I will try this, having a hard time adjusting to daw workflows, I just wanna use my hardware synths and be able to sync midi and create drum patterns on the fly and create songs from sequencing is what I really want to do, clicking on stuff to make music is just really weird for me atm and this might help cuz I have a couple synths I can use with it

can use this with one synth and layer multiple recordings

I just order one. Thanks Nick!

is that mylar melodies?

Say I hook up my Roland MC505( no pc connection, standalone ) to Sequencer 1 of the BeatStepPro , the 16 different "scenes" for sequencer 1 , can that correspond to the midi channels of the MC505 within the 'scenes" ie can that Sequencer 1 be multi timbral ? Much appreciated. ✌️ 16:11

So is anyone using the beatstep pro to control an MPC 1000 via the drums section? How are they finding it? Id like to control 2 of my old analog synths and my MPC from the beatstep pros sequencer.

Does it bring some drum sounds or its just a controller??

How many latency has this thing on midi vs dync vs CV ...

is it possible to save/record sounds on this device so midi (ableton) is not needed to play live?

So want this!

can you turn off the quantization of the real time recorded sequences in the arturia beat step pro. Does it only record sequences that match to the 16 step grid? or does it have a "flux" or "quantized off "mode? Because for me sequences recorded only within the quantized steps is very very limiting. thinking about ordering one soon but I'm very concerned about this limitation.

Man I got to buy this asap!!!!

Around 7:55 I'm hearing steps when turning the knobs to choose pitches. Is it only possible to have the notes snapped to scale values?, or can the pitches that you dial in be continuous? i.e., off pitch?

Can I live change the origin key of a sequence like on the microbrute sequencer ? For example, my seqence from the C key is C D F G, and while the seq. is running, I press the G key and the sequence transposes to G A C D ?

I have a question, can I sequence the brute on the beat step by playing a few notes on the brute?

oh thank god i watched this... can record the notes directly via pads... duuuh!! that saves my life, have been dying with those fiddly horrid knobs, thanks!!!

Could this sequence Multi-timbral synth?? I have the Access Virus TI. Would be amazing to trigger the 16 channels from it.

Must buy!

So looking forward to getting this.

Is it possible to sync two beatstep pro's with clock sync?

Oh my word! Microbrute, 606, BassStation2 and Ableton live suite, not to mention the Eurorack - drools a little over the keyboard!

For those on our side of the pond, Sweetwater has it for pre-order at $249.

Groovy beat

Add Amos and you'd have the three best demonstrators on RU-vid.

Fucking nice ... This will be on the list for sure !!!!!!!!

$250.00 is great price considering the features. I might wait for the Koma Komplex and Social Entropy Engine though.

Can you make it conform to scales? Looking forward to the review!

Can I trade in my Beatstep for the new model? I want.

Sold.

Check out my first synth jam video with the BEATSTEP PRO (Moog SubPhatty + Korg Ms-20 mini + NordDrum 2) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JyP_dp4dfg0.html

Really a shame that it can't do chords!!!!! I guess you could workaround via DAW or also by just using up all 3 sequencers to send 3 notes on the same midi channel, but then it's kindof only controlling 1 thing. I love that it has the sync in/out so you can use it with Electribes and Volcas etc. It looks like this thing solves all of Nick's issues with the original Beatstep with the transposing though, good on Arturia for listening to smart feedback. This really seems like a great device. Also can you record into the sequencer externally? Like over a midi keyboard or bouncing a couple of bars in from the DAW? Also, according to Sweetwater, the pads are pressure sensitive.

What's the iPad doing ?

Can this be used for FL Studio

Guessing that is mylarmelodies, sounds like him? Seems to be popping up in more videos which is great :)

Good music

i need a polyphonic one

I'm still utterly confused as to if this will trigger my Yamaha CS15.

It's so beautiful too. It will be perma-patched to my euro.

T-shirt synth tease?

So does this hold sounds on it so you don’t have to bring all of your gear to every show ??? Like does it have an internal hard drive ?

9:09 dat snare

Shuffle?

Looks awesome. Just wish it had more than two tracks and could do some form of polyphony. I'd pay more. Just take my money dammit!

Ive made a video on how to set the bsp to cubase check it out

People when's this movie out about the 808 drum machine?

Add another sequencer and make it polyphonic and you got the perfect sequencer

Arturia taking your PC's usb power to the next level... because we go one step farther

"Shut up and take my money!"

Don't have enough hardware to warrant this and get most the functionality out of existing gear, but for someone looking for a new one-stop-option for a controller, this looks like the tits!

Nice machine but there is some wrong info about it in this video, like the voltages for cv are 7V and triggers 8V according to the manual. so RTFM before making this kind of video's ;)

What does null mean as a comment is that a hipster way of saying no or are people just trying to be rude

Ppl in my shop dont want buy arturia products coz of mini usb connection

a novation circuit is a better solution -it can sequence 2 synth per midi and has 2 tracks with drums with 64 samle of your choice ,it also has rever and delay (beatstep does not) it has a ´mixer and run on batterie and most of all it works well -with Arturia it will have bugs and sync problemes(as already many reports) Forget Arturia

This is cool, but having only 2 mono tracks is frustratIIINGHHH! I don't complain about price, but if I want 4 tracks, it's $500 thank you very much. And when using even more, it starts to clutter work space a bit too much. Hmmm...wait a minute...unless...Analog Keys + this...

NeXT Time Try to make music !!!!

Like their controllers, dislike their synths.

Good demo of the beatstep but the track sucks big time. It Jars badly when the guys are talking

I'M gonna divorce myself. I have a problem.

Knobs... fnar...

Not a Guy able to do a good seqence...it Will help !!!! Pas un mec pour faire de bonnes séquences ...pitoyable !!!!

Me molesta en sobremanera que los de Arturia expongan puuuura teoria ... no son musicos y eso molesta muchisimo. puro bla bla bla.

I can't watch this. The sequences are just too terrible. By the way I own a Beatstep Pro and it is awesome.