Best tutorial ive seen on this great little Arturia keystep. Forget about fancy intros, loud techno Music, blinking intros and all that noise, FINALLY an adult explaining how Keystep works. thank alot to the person making this video its a great job you did with this tutorial and ill hope there will be more from grown up adults who can do the same without all this nonsense noise i wrote about before :) im a subscriber now and will link this...great job.
Thank you Tom! It´s more than nice to read your words! And thank you for subscribing. May I ask you for a favour? I´m trying to change my serious hobby of making tutorial videos like this one (and doing sound design etc.) into a business to have more time for those "sound activities" (I spent most of my time teaching languages, maths, physics and philosophy, instead of doing soundworks). I´d be happy, if you took part in the survey I´ve set up here: forms.gle/7f8hEBJj176Fg1St6 . I´ve set up this survey to learn more about the people, who are watching my videos, so that I can improve my website, and aim my future activities better at the nreal needs of my watchers. Enjoy your day! Rolf
Thank you for your motivating comment. I´m happy that I could be a bit useful. By the way: You´ll find a lot of stuff like that on my website dev.rofilm-media.net . Enjoy your day! Rolf
I´m glad you liked it. Thanks for commenting. By the way: You´ll find a lot more stuff like this at my website at dev.rofilm-media.net. Just call by there from time to time! En joy your day! Rolf
Thank you George. I could not produce tutorials like these without the support of our rofilm-media.net community. Have you visited our website at dev.rofilm-media.net? Enjoy your day! Rolf
Really useful! Thank you for the time put into the explanation. The intention is always good, but some other tutorials out there just go through it as if everything is obvious.. A few extra minutes will save many of us a lot of time :)
I had the same problem! Most tutorials seem to be for seasoned professionals, merely explaining some of the specifics of the KeyStep, but assuming that the viewer has already plenty of experience with other devices and programming music in general. So glad I found this tutorial!
A perfectly detailed, perfectly explained and perfectly useful tutorial, all delivered in a restful, unhurried manner (with a delightful accent). Huge thanks.
Best tutorial I’ve found yet! I bought the Keystep 37 as a total beginner and was looking for over a week for a tutorial for beginners, as I couldn’t understand the original handbook (which somehow is not for beginners it seems like). Thank you so much! I finally punched in my first sequence!! 😎❤️
Thank you for commenting! I´m glad I could help a bit. Just by the way: at my website dev.rofilm-media.net yiz´ll find a lot more stuff like that. Enjoy your day! Rolf
Thank you for commenting. I´m glad you liked it. There is a lot more of information about musical gear at my website at dev.rofilm-media.net. I´d appreciate your visit there. Enjoy your day! Rolf
Thanks for the work man!, great tutorial, really didactic, I can resume my studies with the keystep and very honestly, I had this machine very aside, I had already forgotten the fundamental things! Thank you again
The pleasure was on my side! Thank you for commenting! And if you want more stuff like that, you could i.e. visit my website www.rofilm-media.net, and subscribe to my newsletter. But anyway: enjoy your day! Rolf
Thank you Dominik! I´m glad I could help. You´ll find a lot more of my tutorials and books and work at my website dev.rofilm-media.net Perhaps there´s more that you might like to know. Enjoy your day! Rolf
I have a question that I asked a lot of people and Channel on RU-vid but nobody answers me. Can we do more complex patterns than just quarter notes or eighth notes etc.? Example My measure is 1 half note, 2 eighth notes, 3 dotted eighth notes and 4 sixteenth notes. Is it possible ?
Thank you, Alexander, for commenting. It´s important for me to know, if my videos are helpful or not. By the way: there´s a lot more of this stuff at my website www.rofilm-media.net, and if you´re a bit interested in modular synthesis, you may want to know about Modular City: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EHOPosGnfDo.html Enjoy your day! Rolf
Thank you Paul! I love beiing meticulous, and I´m happy that you find it helpful. Have you considered to subscribe to my newsletter on dev.rofilm-media.net? You´ll never miss out on my productions then. Anyway, enjoy your day and stay healthy and happy in these crazy times! Rolf
Best tutorial I found. I had any problems to record a sequence. I connected some devices via midi at arturia and I was successful. Keep on. Thanks. Best wishes for Christmas and a happy new Year.
Thank you so much, this is the best Keystep Tutorial on RU-vid. So calm and nice and everything is explained perfectly clear. I was a little frustrated with my Keystep at first because I didn’t really understand it but now I’ve understood its workflow!
Hi Matti! I´m glad that I could help. Perhaps you´d like to visit my website at dev.rofilm-media.net from time to time. There are a lot of tips and tricks and information (and ideas) concerning music production and sound design, modular synths, semi-modulars, granular synthesis and sound processing etc. Enjoy your day! Rolf
You sound like a cross between Werner Herzog & Giorgo Moroder. While such a grotesque picture might instill a general sense of dread in the hearts of many, the banality of putting 4 on the floor is ultimately inevitable.
I rarely comment on youtube videos but I just wanted to say thank you, your clear instructions have taken me from being frustrated to a point where i can just enjoy being creative with my volca and keystep and your relaxed attitude and good humour made the video a pleasure to watch, much appreciated!
Thank you for commenting! It´s really motivating for me to hear/read, that my work is helpful somehow. And as you say you rarely comment, your words are even more precious. There´s someting, that I do rarely, and that´s asking for a favour here. But today I do ask: I´d really appreciate, if you could find the time to take part in my survey at forms.gle/7f8hEBJj176Fg1St6 . It helps me producing the right tutorials in the best serving way. But anyway: Enjoy your day! Rolf from www.rofilm-media.net
Yes, that´s a quite common mistake. Enjoy your day! Rolf (and if you eventually come acros my website www.rofilm-media.net, and subscribe to my newsletter, you will not only get a free non-public tutorials, but might also get more useful information from time to time)
Maybe I'm miss understanding legato/tied & rest notes, but is it possible to say for example; Record a 1/4 note sequence with two 1/8 notes at the end of the phrase? or say an 1/8 note sequence with four 1/16 notes for the last two 1/8 notes? Basically to change time division's mid sequence?
This is the first video I've found that mentions the need to have the dip switches at the back set to internal. At last I can use my Keystep for the thing I bought it for. Thanks!
HI! THANK YOU SO MUCH! THIS WAs VERY USEFUL. ALSO I HAVE A PROBLEM: I CAN'T CHANGE THE LENGTH OF THE SEQUENCER BY PRESSING THE REC BUTTON + NUMBER OF SEQUENCES (1-16)... DO YOU KNOW WHAT CAN BE HAPPENING? THANKS AGAIN
How can i get the keystep sequencer (slave) to be triggered via midi by the elektron model samples (master)? Have the right cables and dip switches and even tried changing settings in midi control center but no luck!
My keyStep came with 8 sequences already in the eight slots. I can’t play over top of them to record new ones. I can’t record at all. Not with midi. Not with usb
I was having a problem of not getting the sequencer to work, then I realised the internal clock wasn't switched to midi. If you haven't checked that yet, then maybe it could just be that??
Hi , i need some help cause i use keystep in ableton like a keyboard, with usb/midi cable , and i can't use the sequencer and harp mod, can you help me please ? Thx for all
Hello Nicolas. Just to get it right: You´ve plugged your MIDI cable coming from the Keystep into a USB audio interface and this audio interface via USB to your computer. Is that the case?
@@nicolasdelliac8098 Hi Nicolas! Sorry for answering a bit later. I´ve been suffering from the flu, but it´s getting better. Well, I´ve tried to reproduce your problem, but whatever I tried, no problem occurred. I´m not working with Ableton at the moment though. I tried with FL Studio as well as with Reaper. No problems! Perhaps the MIDI channels of the sequencer and of your Ableton apps/VSTs etc. aren´t the same?
@@nicolasdelliac8098 I´m pleased to hear that! Would you like to tell us/me, what the problem was and how you solved it? Others may have the same problem. Enjoy your day! Rolf
Hello Stefano! I´m really happy, that the video was useful for you. By the way: have you had heard of Modular City? If not and you are a bit interested in modular synthesis etc., you should invest 15 minutes and watch the following: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MmNqERfI4qM.html
Hello at 5:37 you are adding the chord on top of the fixed sequencer, I couldn't do it because when I press the chord the previous melody format changes, whereas I want to add it as a 2nd separate channel, is that possible?
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Great video. For the first time I understand how to use the rest/tie and some other features I could not find anywhere else. I have just one question: I use Volca FM (ch. 3) and Volca Keys (ch. 1). I do Shift - Oct+ and would like to leave Volca Keys playing the sequence while soloing on Volca FM (what you mentioned as a possibility). However, no matter what I do, it is always the channel I select after Kbd Play that will play both, the sequence and solo. I tried to figure out the settings in MIDI Control center and in spite of my efforts, nothing changes. What do you recommend? Thanks.
Hello Miki.the.Great! I´m afraid you cannot achieve what you want that way. The problem is, that a sequence, which is being played by the Keystep must be sent out via the CV out jack, if you want to play the keyboard live using another MIDI channel. As the Korg Volcas don´t have a CV in jack they depent on the conventional MIDI jacks/cables. Therefore: they always will play along with the MIDI channel you´ve adjusted last. To let the sequence and your live playing getting played by different devices, you need to use both, the MIDI out jack for your live playing to device 1 and the CV out jack for the sequence going to device 2. I´m going to talk about problems and set-ups like that in Modular City, which is going to be opened in April: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EHOPosGnfDo.html
Fantastic video. Sorry to ask more questions about the REST / TIE set up with the Volca but could you please explain what cable(s) goes from the Keystep to the Volca and from which port. Also what is the setting with the two switches on the back of the Keystep? MIDI? Or Interval? I assume, Midi. Thanks for all your help and brilliant videos.
Dankeschön Rolf! I purchased a Keystep to get started with midi sequencing with a looper pedal that I have and ended up packing it back to return to the store as I could control only one volca at a time. After seeing your video I realized that I was using the transpose mode all the time so I’m motivated to give it another go!!! Great job, keep doing these videos. Hopefully you can do a nice one about the Keystep Pro for when I decide to upgrade? haha I’m sure it will help a lot of people! Cheers
Thank you Luiz! I´, happy, that I could help a bit. Concerning the keystep pro, well, I´d like to make a tutorial video about it, but I have to buy all the things I make tutorials about. Artutia doesn´t even know me, and as I wrote to them once, they didn´t even answer. And money to buy the keystep, well, that´s above my limit. Perhaps later, because I´m trying to change my serious hobby into a real business right now. And by the way, you would do me a great favour, if you took part in my survey here: forms.gle/7f8hEBJj176Fg1St6 . I´ve set up this survey to learn more about the people, who are watching my videos, so that I can improve my website, and aim my future activities better at the nreal needs of my watchers. Enjoy your day! Rolf
Hello Popart 2015. You´re right. It would lead to a kind of legato, but a quite "unmusical" kind, because even when you play legato - for excample on a real piano - you hear one note end and there isn´t that blurring between two consecutive notes, that whould occur with gate = 100%.
I am learning so much from your video - thank you! Forgive if you have already mentioned this - but what is the difference on the Time Div dial between 1/4 and 1/4T?
I'm trying to find out what sequenzer I should buy, with just the options Arturia has to offer I am already overloaded and it's hard to decide, if I should get a Keystep, a beatstep or even the beatstep pro. I would love to learn what the differences are (only looking at the sequencers in these 3 products) if there are any. since nobody put out a nice comparison video so far, I will have to find tthis out by watching all videos about all three models. that'll take some time! I want to use it with a hardware synthesizer. I thank you very much for this super elaborate video! Danke und Gruss aus Bremen.
Thank you for commenting couchcamper! I understand your problem, and you are not alone with it. Unfortunately I´m in the last (and very hot) phase of publishing Modular City. There won´t be time for producing such a comparison for quite a bit of time. Rolf
Love your work, sir. Can't decide between a Beatstep Pro or the Keystep to drive my Neutron. I already have a Roland PC-180A Keyboard, I'm really looking for a good sequencer.
Well, first I´d like to thank you for commenting. If you´ve already got a keyboard controller, then the Beatstep pro should surely be the better decision. It´s a bit more expensive though. If you want to stay in the price segment of the Keystep, then you may consider the Korg SQ-1. I don´t know the beatstep pro in detail (I´ve only watched some youtube demos), but it seems to me, that the beatstep pro is a bit more functional than the SQ-1. If I should have to decide between the beatstep pro and the SQ-1, then the question of ratcheting would make the point. Enjoy your day! Rolf
How does someone with no experience get this to work in Windows 10....Not a single video on youtube to show how this installs and works in windows. Right now I have a $118 paper weight. The users manual is useless unless your an experienced user. I just want to make some noise...Why things have to be so difficult? This should be plug and play or step by step instructions on getting this to work in windows....Any help or a video on the subject would be helpful....thanks in advance.
I tried to record something. After that the sound of the synthesizer changed, not in a good way, then i tried to record this sound and while I was recording the sound went back to normal, what can be the problem? Volca keys
Sharkwhisperer I was having the same problem, you have to change the transport settings in midi control center. In my case the record button was sending a signal to eg sustain so I had to change stop, rec and play cc values. You can look for the midi implementation chart for the volca keys and make sure that the values for start cc, stop cc, and rec cc are not set to the volca control channels. Hope this helps....
Hi there! I love your video mate... I have a question though... Is there any way to Connect my Blue Electribe 2 to an Arturia keystep? Also I have a volca basa as well
Thank you for commenting. Concerning the Electribe, well, I don´t know this machine. But all websites say it has MIDI (the adapter being part of the deal). So you just use the MIDI input jack of the electribe, I can imagine. If you want to connect the Keystep with two MIDI sources, you´ll have to use a MIDI splitter, I think. You´ll get them on the Internet for something between 40-50 dollars (1 in and 4 or 5 outs). Enjoy your day! Rolf
Thanks for this video... You tell us how it all works clearly and stay well clear of 'youtuber bullshit' territory. I'm not sure how such a long video can still be so concise. Great stuff.
Thank you very much indeed for your motivating comment. Have you had the time to check by at my website dev.rofilm-media.net? You might like the topics there as well. Cheers and Peace! Rolf
Thank you, Andy for your comment. I´m happy you like my tutorial. And, yes, I forgot to switch synths in that test. But the result is as I told in the video. Enjoy your day! Rolf
Hello Pablo. I´m glas you found my video useful. Your question: you need 3.5 mm jacks. The Sync jacks must be stereo (TRS), if you want to transmit Clock pulses as well as Start/Stop signals. If you want only to transfer clock pulses, you can use mono (TS) jacks. All other jacks (Pitch, Gate, Mod) are mono (TS) jacks anyway. By the way: have you had heard of Modular City? If not and you are a bit interested in modular synthesis etc., you should invest 15 minutes and watch the following: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MmNqERfI4qM.html
Hi David. Thank you for asking! Every sequence is automatically stored in the one of Keystep´s 8 sequencer registers, which you´d chosen when you programmed the sequence. There is no way of saving more than 8 sequences directly in Keystep. But you can - of course - transfer any programmed sequence to your computer. Enjoy your day! Rolf
@@davidsobel3303 Well, you did :-) Tleft most of the 3 knobs is the one to chose a register. Even iff you didn´t choose intentionally, the knob is adjusted to one of these 8 positions.
Hello theo rex! The Keystep isn´t a sound module - of course it isnt, it´s mainly a sequencer. In the video I connected the Keystep to a Korg Volca FM (via MIDI cable), which produced the sounds. The whole setup was quite simply: Keystep to Volca FM (MIDI) and Volca F M´s audio out into a Zoom H5 recorder (in multimode), which recorded also my voice. Concerning your second question: I think yes, the Keystep is best value for money in its range. I hope the video showed, what kind of sequencer the Keystep is and how it works. There maybe one alternative, which is the Korg SQ-1. The SQ-1 is more liíke a "conventional" sequencer, it is about 25 dollars cheaper and cannot (except for the sequencer functionality) serve as a MIDI controller (there are no keys). I´ll produce a video about the SQ-1 in 2019 (but it will last a bit, as I´m frantically working on "Modular City"). Enjoy your day! Rolf from rofilm-media.net
