Arturia Keystep Pro + Logic Pro X SETUP [How to Control Software & Hardware Instruments] 

Thank you this video was very helpful, as a guitar player a lot of this info has been going over my head but this was the breakthrough I needed. If anybody is watching this video copying this dudes moves and still can’t get playback out of the drum sequencer on channel 1, as in you can assign sounds to the 16 button panel but when you hit play it doesn’t do anything, here’s what you gotta do: Take note of the MIDI channel window at 2:55 of the video. At the bottom there’s a ‘Sync’ section. Input for the key step pro needs to be set at internal for that field in the control center. I just recently got my key step and downloaded the midi control center and by default that setting was on something else, after I switched it to internal the rig worked just as it is in this video. I was on the verge of pulling out my hair when by chance I noticed that and recalled something I read in a forum about internal denoting “master” in which the master, in this case keystep pro, is in control. Idk if this guy assumed that setting is set to internal by default or perhaps when this video was made that was the case, but that’s what I had to do. There are a few other settings in the clock section that affect this particular feature too but my key step was setup appropriately for those out of the box (again mine was clearance so I can’t be too sure that is the standard). For those more curious, it has to do with a master/slave relationship with this sort of equipment. Basically the master is the device setting the clock or time or whatever and the slaves are following suit, so changing the parameters to “internal” in the control center cues Keystep to be master. Google “keystep pro master or slave”, the instruction manual does a decent enough job explaining it but there are other resources out there as well.

Man this was so helpful. Thank you for this! You are right, it’s simple but if you don’t know anything it’s hard to figure out some of the small details on your own.

Man you make it easy...watched 4 times and still learning!

I've been looking into this upgrade. Thank you for this great video!

Thanks for the transpose trick on the drum track. Was having this issue today and this cleared it up. Great job!

Good job. Very simple and clear explanation. I am considering purchasing a Keystep Pro so I appreciate your video.

Sometimes I am mega knuckle head w/ technology (I’m 22), and tonight my first night with keystep pro I spent a couple of hours trynna figure this out... how to map it w/ my DAW... dude I am so grateful for vid rn. Thank you!

Super this is the tutorial I way looking for, Well done 👋 from France 🇫🇷

Really helpful video, perfectly explained. Thanks a lot

I am a BST owner so this was helpful to a certain extent, thank you for teaching me how to update the firmware, never knew that!

Awesome video Patrick!!

Thank you, this was super helpful.

Bruh I've been so lost with trying to sync this up with the digitakt but transposing the drum note worked! I'm so happy

Cheers mate this helped loads!

Super helpful ,thank you! Can you do similar set-up for the live loops function of Logic X pro and do the whole thing at a live show?

good job bud, thanks....

great video .thanks!

Great walkthrough for a noob!

Most helpful video I’ve seen so far. What’s a good choice for Audio Interface

I love you man

Fab , Thanks

That was helpful.

Awesome video thanks Patrick. However I notice the MIDI setting "Auto demix by channel if multitrack recording" is gone in the new Logic update - will you provide an update on how to handle this in the latest version of Logic? (10.7.2)

Thank you so much for this vídeo. I’ve got the beatstep pro and I presume the procedure should be the same , right ? Thanks a lot !

Thanks. Really helpful. I'm assuming you had to set up midi channels on the drumbrute and microfreak as well?

hoi Patrick bedankt voor de video! morgen komt m'n ksp aan van bax, nu heb ik al een idee hoe ik hem op cubase moet aansluiten :-)

WARNING. If you are on Logic 10.7 or Kip few 2.01 most of this video is redundant. Auto Demix is now part of default and no longer a tick box, KSP default is midi set 1,2,3,4 for each track so no need to go to Mac except if you want to check. So just create tracks as explained. Enjoy

Really appreciate the video patrick. Can you share how you connected the drum brute and the mini freak into the rig ? Connecting midi cables confuses me a bit when to use out / in / thru etc any help appreciated! Cheers steve

Nice vid! Thinking of getting keystep 37 :P Where is that digi piano sound from? Thx

Have you experienced a lot of bugs / freezing / weird arp behavior like most of us? Very curious.

I notice the MIDI setting "Auto demix by channel if multitrack recording" is gone in the new Logic update. I can't get my BeatStep Pro to sync to Logic on my MacBook Pro now.

Question: Using a KeyStep 37 (not the pro) I find that the arpeggiator is triggered when I start recording in Logic. Is there a way to turn that off so the KeyStep arpeggiator doesn't automatically start?

If I will buy Logic Pro, do I still need to use key lab? Do I can separate my keyboard on 2 different instruments like I can in Key lab?

Hey Patrick. Big fan of your channel. But I'm finding what you're showing in many of your tutorials is not what I'm seeing with the newest version of Logic Pro X (10.7.2). Are you planning on offering any updated lesson?

HELP: I'm in Logic X Pro. My arturia Keystep is triggering my Juno-106 fine. BUT, when I record the midi (sound coming through fine) and want to play it back, the midi is not triggering the Juno-106. Again, the issue is that the MIDI is not coming through during playback.

Hey Patrick! Is it necessary to connect the Juno-06A through an audio interface for this setup to work? Is it possible to just connect it via USB?

That "Glide WIDE" preset from RetroSyn... where can someone find it? :)

To transpose the drums can you use octave buttons on keystep??

Hi Patrick, I do not have the option to 'auto demix...' in my recording settings? Any help much appreciated.

Really nice and understandable guide. Does anyone know if there is a similar guide to setting up Presonus Studio One 6 like this?

Do I need the Arthurian control center first before I attempt this?

Can you do a video as clear and concise but for the beatstep pro possibly? I want to sequence 2 x boutique from it, but it has 1 x midi out? I’m newb to this hardware game so any help would be appreciated;)

So you can only plug 2 hardware instruments to the KSP and be able to record on separate tracks in DAW/ Is that correct? or up to four?

So i set up like you said, 1st tack i set to drums but when i set the 2nd tack to a synth it sets all 4 channels to the synth, i just want the 1st channel to be drums and the rest synth sounds, why is it doing this ?.

but how did you get the play button to work? I'm in Reason and the play button doesn't play.

Hi, I changed all the MIDI channels in the Inspector, but for some reason the keyboard still only plays the synth that's on whatever track I have selected on in Logic. Do you know why that might be? Did the Auto Demix check too. Thanks!!

Greg Hill 0 seconds ago Dude mine glitches no matter what buffer size I set... I got this cuz my old Launchkey 25 was doing that and I thought it was defective. WHY do my keyboards do this??? Is it because my Macbook Pro only uses USB C ports? Do you think I need a powered hub?

Anyone know how to go about this process in Logic 11 yet? Everything is just slightly different enough to make it all confusing as F again, for instance, the very first thing he said to do was "go up to recording settings and make sure the 'auto demix by channel if multichannel recording' option is clicked", for me, Logic 11 doesn't even have that option under the MIDI heading lol. This all worked for me years ago when i first got the KeyStep Pro and ran it on Logic X, why mess with the little things for the newer version, awkward shite now....

I noticed when I change software instrument my midi channel goes back to "All". Pretty annoying. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Hey this video is super helpful. In my case, the Keystep still triggers the instrument track that is highlighted, regardless of the midi inputs. It's acting like "Midi input = All". I need to de-select all the tracks in logic in order for the keystep to be able to control which instrument I hear. Anyone else have this issue? It's not a big problem, but I noticed your machine doesn't do this.

I'm trying to figure out how to do this with fl studio and i'm struggling. I can't seem to have it only trigger the drum sounds from one track, instead it's just working like a normal midi controller and when I switch to track 2, 3, or 4 it still triggers the sounds from the daw, as well as the other hardware synths I have routed to those tracks. anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Actually, I can’t get this to work. The midi channel drop down on the tracks inspector in Logic is for the output channel, not the input. So you can’t use that to direct your KSP midi tracks to corresponding VSTs. All the KSP output from all KSP midi output channels is played by whatever is the selected VST/track in Logic. Very frustrating. It does work in Ableton, where you can easily select the input midi channel per track. I am slowly starting to give up on Logic. This is a basic feature. Please tell me I am wrong ?

I would like to know how to use keystep with multiple synths outside of a DAW

can you do a vid explaining how to plug and use synths like the Behringer line, NEUTRON,K2,MODEL D,PRO 1,WASP,CAT , into the cv or voice plugs , there is literally nothing ,no vid or tutorial that actually shows new users how to plug and use these functions

Goldmine

i need this for new pro tools broooo , i cant _:C

What are the main differences between the Keystep Pro and the Keylab?

I don't have auto demix by channel. ?.

You never shared a link to the midi control center…

lacunacoil

Nothing about the latency. It’s not as straight up as the video shows

in version 10.8, this video is unnecessary, it's a drama, I can't set any midi keyboard to work properly, including Arturia Key Step Pro, I've been working on Studio One 6 so far and it's nothing compared to the midi configuration in Logic 10.8. A week has passed and I still don't know how to do it

Much to complicated