Arturia BeatStep Pro v2.0 Firmware - Scenes Mode 

Thank you - have fun with it!

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No worries, I'm glad you found it useful!

+Ben Asaro my pleasure, glad I could help. Have fun with the new features!

Cheers buddy!

Thank you, I'm glad it was useful!

Great stuff, happy to help!

+OblivionRatula haha I think I was 'hamming it up' for the camera a bit.

Have fun with it!

I don't think we'll see many more updates, if any.... :/ ....being able to punch in midi CC or write velocity would make this machine massively OP

That polymeter mode is such a massive upgrade to the drum sequencer.

Thanks!

The bass sounds are coming from a Novation Bass Station, it'll be a patch that I built myself, not a factory preset. To be clear (I'm not presuming ignorance here, so apologies if I'm stating the obvious), the BeatStep Pro *doesn't* make any sound itself, it has to trigger other instruments over midi or CV.

No problem! Happy to help.

So I'm terms of the channels etc. I highly recommend looking at the Midi Control Centre software from Arturia. It allows you to set everything up. The BSP isn't something that will always work out of the box with every setup - that's part of what makes it flexible, but it does mean you might need to tweak things a bit. If you're getting noise on the sync, then make sure you're using the little USB ground hum eliminator (it's the Y-shaped USB adapter), that fixes those kinds of issues 99 percent of the time. Hope that helps move things along!

Already tried some setups in the midi control center. The Y splitter is connected to the computer and a usb hub. Going to try and connect it to external USB battery pack. Thanks for the reply and tips.

+Zsazsa Gabor thanks for the feedback! All the "PRST LINK" does is change all of the sequences at once when you use the arrows on the sequencer/drum tracks so you can change 3 sequences all at once with a single button press. Weirdly, in the manual it's described as "Seq Link" which makes much more sense. In the Midi Control Centre, you can change its behaviour between "absolute" (eg. Changing the preset to '3' on the drums also sets the presets on the sequencers to '3') or "relative" (eg. If move the drum sequence up by one, the other two sequences also move up by one from their current setting). Hope that helps!

+Kenneth Daniel what are you sound module are you using? Depending on what you're using and whether it has a "learn mode", you may need to hook the BSP up to your computer and set up each pa's midi note in the Midi Control Centre software.

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+Sami Farah not as far as I can tell, but "scene chaining" would certainly be useful...

I think Program Change is one of the features of control mode, but I've not used it in that way - I'm afraid you might have to dive into the manual to answer that one!

Sadly I don't have Maschine, so I can't help there directly, but it's all about setting the Midi channel of the sequences and having the synths you want to sequence receive midi on that same channel (the setting is usually called "Receive channel" or "Rx Channel"). On the drum sequence you can even set different pads to send midi to different channels, but that has to be set up in the Midi Control Centre software on your PC.

Oscillator Sink thank you for your informative reply

I don't know the TR8, but I think that'd require some program change and CC stuff that might be out of the reach of the BSP. There might be some stuff you could do if you introduced something like a Midihub, but that might be a case of overcomplicating things honestly...

I think you can do this from within the Midi Control Centre software, but I don't think you can do it on the unit itself - but I haven't tried honestly.

+Callum Clarke as a simple starting point (and I'm not that familiar with the Matrix, so I'm just going off the manual), if you want the BSP to be "in charge", start by connecting the Clock Out on the BSP to the Sync In on the Brute (it's not with the block of CV controls, it's a bit further along). Then you can pick one of the sequencer channels, and take the Gate Out of the BSP into the Gate In on the Brute (same again, it's separate to the block of CV Inputs). Then Pitch Out on the BSP into the Pitch CV input on the Brute. Finally you could do something like patching the Vel out into the Filter or Metalizer CV inputs - but it's kinda whatever you like there, experiment. That all being said, if you're just straight up sequencing you might be better working over MIDI because then you can take advantage of the velocity mapping in the matrix which will probably lead to better expression with the velocity. As an aside, I think one thing that could be very cool would be to use a "pure" CV sequencer, like the little Korg SQ-1, that doesn't quantize the CV to actual notes, and clock it from the Matrix and just have it sequencing some of the more interesting parameters on the CV panel directly. You could actually try that with the BSP's Pitch outputs as well, but it'll be stepped - probably still loads of fun though! I hope that made sense and it's given you a starting point. Have fun and let me know how you get on!

Hi, I'd love to, but I don't have a Model D I'm afraid!

Holy moly, I just realized the thing has 8 drum gates for the drum rack. Amazing! Will get mine today. Thanks again for the tutorials!

Yup! 8 drum triggers, and 2 sets of Pitch, Gate and Velocity for synth tracks!

Off the top of my head I think that's right, but it'll be covered in the manual I think.

+kvfive especially now you have scenes, that could really open up some interesting opportunities. Being able to assign channels to the drum pads is a hell of a start mind.

@@OscillatorSink THIS THIS THIS ....

I think you're instincts are correct I'm afraid - there isn't any "scene chaining" unfortunately, so it is a manual operation.

Oscillator Sink thanks for the quick reply. Even if the scenes could play consecutively that would be helpful. Surely this would be easy for Arturia to implement. I read somewhere it is a memory issue. If Drum machines from the 80’s could do it...

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John Brooks thanks John but it doesn’t solve the issue. The way I got around this was to send program change from Logic to the BSP to select infinite combinations of the 16 patterns per song.

System Exclusive Cool! This is what Im looking for. So you have Logic control a scenes? Or more specifically individual patterns? ... and skip scene mode all together.

+Victor Scherman just double checked this: scenes can't be chained and the wait to load is end of pattern rather than scene (you can see this in action in the video). Both seem like sensible features (especially wait till end of chain) so hopefully it'll be something Arturia will consider in a later update...

Oscillator Sink chaining scenes would definitely be a great feature to add. Though it's already a great update.

Just finished getting my head round this feature and came back to this vid to see if it was possible to also chain scenes seemed the next logical thing. Fingers crossed for an update to do so!! Cheers again to Oscillator Sink these vids are an essential guide especially to a newbie BSP user like myself!!

No, not with the BSP alone anyway, this is a sequencer not a sampler / recorder.

As per section 6.1.3. (Pattern Chains) of the manual, it's 16. You can save each chain for each track in a scene, which can then be recalled.

I don't believe so. You might be able to edit them in the editor though.

Not that I can think for the way I use it, but I guess that Arturia didn't want to ruin the workflow of people already using the BSP? All of the big features they added were optional so that if you updated the firmware for the bug fixes, you could still perform with it straight away without having to learn any new behaviour.

To my knowledge, I don't think you can. I think you only have swing as a way of altering the groove on the sequencer tracks.

Oscillator Sink i love my beatstep pro and yesterday i made a 5min question answer journey for arturia bsp... but i just sayed the the on off switch on the backside feels like it would loosen into the insude of the chasis after switching 150x on off... i really forgot to mention the timenudgefunction... it was boggering me since i bought the bsp... i dont know how i forget this to mention! can you guys please mention this if you make your helpingjourney for arturia bsp!!!! please please do it! i can not buy some elektron stuff just for timenudging... but allmost i have to! thank you for listening

I've checked the manual and the pattern chains are limited to 16 patterns here as well, but you could, for example have a scene per section of the song and trigger a scene manually in control mode. That said, if what you want is to play back entire pre sequenced songs you might want to look at something less performance oriented, like maybe the Squarp Pyramid?

@@OscillatorSink Yes i know that it's limited to 16 patterns. But i read elsewhere that's just the limitation of how many DIFFERENT patterns you can use in one scene, not the limit of how many times you can repeat them. I read if you repeat a single pattern x50 times that's just one of the 16 "slot" you have. Can you confirm that? Try to make a scene where you repeat the same A pattern x 16 and then have a B pattern after that. Play it and see if it works. If it's limited to 16 patterns in lenght it won't reach pattern B. Otherwise it'll mean there's no limitation in lenght/loops

@@TheFragile79 sorry, my BSP is all packed up at the moment, but I'm 90 percent certain from memory that it's 16 patterns not 16 *unique* patterns

Solve for x. The *project* has the 16 sequences (per track - you can be on different patterns per track), not the scene - the scenes are how you arrange those sequences.

According to the manual: "scenes can be overwritten, but not cleared or erased.". So if you want to get rid of a scene, just overwrite it.

You don't see a use case for pattern chaining?

@@OscillatorSink, I see a use for chaining 100 or more patterns to make a real song. I don't see a use for functions that help you chain the same 16 patterns over and over. I don't wanna make watered down tracks!

@@jmfhsmith4923 unless my maths is off - a 100 x 64 step sequences at 16ths resolution at 120 bpm is 13 minutes long. 16x64 steps at 120 bpm is about 2 minutes of unique patterns - longer if you repeat them, obviously. But on the drum part and 2 monophonic parts that the BSP offers, are there never going to be repeated sections? Maybe not in your music I guess, and more power to you if that's the case, but I'm just trying to illustrate what it means in real terms. If you want something with a more comprehensive song mode you could look at something like the Squarp Pyramid - that will probably give you the flexibility that your music needs. Or if you're willing to get on the waiting list - there's always the Cirklon. Now that is a serious box.

@@OscillatorSink, They look great! But None of those sequencers have velocity sensitive pads and don't seem as fun or easy to deal with. For drums I'm using a DR-660 drum machine with MIDECO Midi to trigger/velocity module. 150 user patterns and less gimmicky pattern chaining. I wish I knew the right set up to be able to use the 660 to control CV/gate. I have 4 Dr-660s. They are so fun. It's just the simplest trigger sequencer on the planet.

+Zsazsa Gabor no, that's related to the "last step" feature which you use to alter the length of the sequence (I show this in the first BSP V2.0 video if you're interested).

Oscillator Sink hey man thanks, will need to review a few times. Was so excited bout this update wanted to hook up volca sample, then got lost! Cheers!

+mAzMiTh do you have "wait for pattern" turned on (shift and 14 in control mode)? If it's not you change instantly - I wonder if different pattern lengths can mess with stuff there?

Oscillator Sink yeah, I have that turned on. It's really strange, what's happening is when I switch scenes, there are notes sounding where there aren't any placed in the sequence. If I hit stop on the BSP, and in ableton, then restart the scene, it will play as written. It only happens to me when I'm switching from one scene to another

+mAzMiTh that's weird. I haven't had this happen. Does it happen when you have the clocking set to internal (I'm guessing you're synchronised to Ableton at the moment?)? Also, if I remember there was a 2.0.2 patch which mentioned a clocking issue - I suspect that 2.0.0 was never actually available, but that's worth checking in the Midi Control Centre. Otherwise, I'd report to Arturia directly as its probably something they'd be interested in hearing about. Good luck and let me know how you get on...

Oscillator Sink ya, I have USB sync on coming from ableton and after playing with it a few more hours today, it doesn't always happen. I'll check the MCC software to see if there was s a fix, but your prob right that 2.0.0 was never released

It's just to choose if it's on or off. You can use scene mode after that without the computer.