Get more out of your Beatstep Pro with these modular patch tips! 

This really helped me break outta preconceptions and simply think about the Beatstep simply as a voltage sequencer and forget about the labels. Thanks!

your technical breakdowns combined with your creative ideas, & those graphics... man, this is SUPER helpful stuff!! thanks so much for these videos.

Just the info I was looking for. Thanks!

This is brilliant man! I’m about to dive into a full modular set up so your videos are proving to be a very valuable source of info. Thanks man, new sub for thee here 👍

Excellent. Love the graphic walk throughs

Great video mate don’t know why you don’t have way more subscribers !

This is great! I’ve just gotten a BSP and this has really opened my mind to new ways to patch with it. Thanks!

Seemingly endless possibilities. Always inspired from your videos. Thankyou.

excellent bunch of ideas!! thanks so much for your efforts here.

Super inspiring ideas for the BeatStep Pro! Thank you!

I made a few simple passive slew limiters. Just out of a couple potentiometers, two capacitors and two diodes. Wire them in line from the drum triggers. Adjusting those pots and the pattern and gate lengths from the beatstep, turns the triggers into envelopes or LFOs. Great for adding movement when there are any drum triggers not being used for something else.I also made a couple with a third potentiometer that I can mix the “dry” trigger in. Giving a percussive element while still having the slewed effect. Super cheap to make, takes up 0hp, and requires no power.

I've previously only used my BSP via midi, but 2 weeks ago, I started my first rack, so I',m looking into how to integrate it. This has given me a lot of food for thought. Thank you.

Great timing, I've just got mine! Thanks a lot for the upload!

Some great ideas in here! Thanks for sharing ❤️

Whow! Danke für das tolle Video!

wieder klasse gemacht !!! hab wieder viel verstanden, danke fürs teilen 😄😄😄

Man, I'm so glad to discover your channel! You make everything clear! :) Thnx from Kiev, Ukraine! Wish you all the best)

Good work, thank you Monotrail

Thanks a lot man, you have opened my mind with this video!

great breakdown!!!

eeeeexactly the information i was looking for. awesome!

Good stuff. Appreciate the graphics.

Truly something else... amazing.

Very smart video, with some very helpful tips that I'm now looking forward to trying. I've had my Beatstep Pro for about a year and a half now, and it's been a total game changer. It seems to me like a very underrated sequencer within the modular synth community, which is surprising considering that-as you rightfully pointed out-there are so far no other sequencers that offer so many fantastic features for such a ridiculously low price. Not sure how many people out there do this, but I tend to treat each BSP project like a "song": I program variations to (and movements within) a melodic motif and its corresponding backing rhythm(s) across each track within the project by copying and pasting the original motifs into separate tracks, and then playing around with each one. I then plan out when each event will happen within the song, sequencing each track accordingly. Of course, it's very easy to branch out into all directions at once with this method, hence raising the potential to end up with a complete (but sometimes glorious) mess. Having said that, I've never filled out all 16 tracks of one project with a single composition, though the potential to do that is certainly there and open. I wonder what Philip Glass would do with THAT idea...

these vids are so good. ty

Great video thank you 🙏

Very useful! Thx a lot!

thanks man! really nice usecases..

1000 likes, congrats from France - I was the 1,000th, so I did something productive today :-)

Great help. Thx a lot.

I'm going to have to watch this about ten times.

Yes! Realy helpfull!!

You have a amazing channel

These videos are really good

Very fun. I do not have a modular synth. But... I shall try set this up in softube modular! I hope it's possible

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spelling it "baseline" gave me a chuckle.

one of the smartest modular vids seen yet

Maravilloso 🤟🏻🤟🏻

very cool!

Nice

Im going to use the drum seq on the bsp to play future garage type beats. I was going to use the triggers to first go into an envelope. You mentioned the ability to make the drum triggers into gates and then you talked about the cv hard edges. If I am going to be triggering envelopes, will those hard edges make envelopes sound off in some way? Do I need to process the wider trigger gates if I want to have the envelopes behave and sound as they would if I used one of the bsp's melodic sequencers? Thanks

Great video, as always! I have the Keystep Pro, but a lot of this is definitiely applicable there as well. Question about the ratcheting sequence: when you add an additional sequence to the fast hi hat sequence, don't they just trigger simultaneously. Ie, i f I add a couple of quarter notes to a 16th note pattern, they will fire off at the same time. How did you manage to get them to trigger separately on the same step?

I just realized that the Beatstep Pro can output NRPN messages. I want to get one to sequence those to control my LXR-02. I started messing around with NRPN with a max/msp patch and it's cool. I know I'm late but the Beatstep seems like the best sequencer for modular and or midi hardware. I ve been looking for a sequencer that's versatile enough but without too many pads like the Hapax. The Pyramid looks cool but i'm not sure about the performance effects.

Yer awesome!

Thank you for this inspiring video (and the others.) Would it be also possible to use the BeatStepPro as a (deluxe) MIDI to CV converter? Information on how to do this I find scan and rather obscure... I find this possibility exciting for several reasons: 1) if you don't have anymore rack space to accommodate a dedicated module to do this and 2) to use only your DAW a sequencing brains; an option, I find, particularly convenient if you have already an Ableton + Push combo. Ableton offers amazing sequencing capabilities, and an all-in-one setup is hard to beat. Thanks for your time and any input you may provide! el domo

Bravo super vidéo .avec les dessins c est un bon moyen pour comprendre.😊👍👏

Nice video. It think its can be easy to control cv/gate with the midi cc knobs on the beatstep. I have the doepher midi to 8 cv converter for that. You can live tweaking the cv to the modular on the beatstep.

It was inspiring, thanks! BTW beatstep pro drum sequencer can work in polyrhythm mode, to activate it press shift + step16 (in drum mode).

Do you have any other sequencers you would recommend which would also work just as well instead of Beatstep Pro? Could be both external or eurorack module.

I don't have any modular gear, but It doesn't matter, Subscribed! :) Would love to know your opinion about the TC effects you are using (reverb, delay)

as always,great content and pro tips for better understanding how modular works and what you can do with some clever patching,i think the entire series is excellent :) such a shame that the drum seq of the bs pro it's still unreliable,when slaved because it suffer from a hiccups every 15 minutes which is really frustrating imho,also worth to mention that those 12v gates and trigger outs are often too hot for some modules and so you need a bunch of attenuator to deal with it.Arturia knows this problems from more than 18 months,i demonstrate the issue with their dev team and they spotted it,but still no fix for it :(

Wow nice video. I learned so much about the BeatStep Pro. I almost forgot that I own one of them since I don't use it anymore since I have a Push. But this sounds incredible flexibel and creative

would you recommend the beat step pro over a build in sequencer/clock source to a beginner in modular?

Thanks for these. It's great to have material that bridges the Beatstep Pro to modular. But I'm wondering about actually just clocking my modular from the Beatstep? I'm not having much luck getting any of my Makenoise modules -- Wogglebug, 0-Coast or 0-Ctrl - to understand the BSP Clock Out. But I'm also thinking there's something I don't get about the connection. Any help much appreciated. Thnx. again.

Can u help with Roland boutiques man because I have options for sequencing but they already have a selection of options. also I have sequence options on almost everything I own. So what am I gaining by owning the b s .. if u don’t want to answer. 😊anyone always I’m welcome to your opinion.. tho only 2 answers

do you know if i can get unquantized pitch out of the pitch out of melo sequencer or any other output ? i dont ussualy stick to scales

Hi, I don't know if you can help me but I try! I'm trying to send velocity to Neutron just to have some notes with different volume, I'm just there but there's a problem. Pratically if I patch a cable from vel-out of bsp to vca cv in of Neutron I have velocity but ADSR is bypassed and I have all notes long like a decay and release set to max. I give a look at Neutron routing but I did'nt realize how to do it

Can the beatstep pro be the tempo master for a moog dfam? And is it then synced to my daw aswell?

Hmmmm. Up until this point I’ve underutilized the BSP…I think I will start experimenting with voltages now.

I'm noob here, can i put any midi files into Arturia Beatstep Pro ? Also if not, what modul i need for play Midi to CV ?

Somehow, i can't find any information about sequencing a Track in Ableton, other gear over Midi and modular gear at the same time. Do you have any information about that? Ich dachte vielleicht interessiert das auch Andere, deshalb auf english;) Außerdem vielen Dank für deine extrem informativen und professionellen Videos! Deine professionelle Art hat mich sogar nach über 10 Jahren des "stummen" RU-vid Schauens letztendlich zu meinem ersten Kommentar bewegt:) (Translated to english: "Thanks")

Short question for dummys?? How do you unmute only a single channel on the trigger sequencer? Every time I try this I unmute all muted channels 0.o

Hello Monotrail. I have Beatstep Pro. Do you know how to slave it and send it resets from my modular, please? It's the main thing I want to do and never know how to do it. Thank you!

This modular stuff gets complicated, could you do a video of the Behringer system 100 from start to finish?

My head asploded. But good video

Could you make a vid explaining audio vs cv more thoroughly? i get that they’re technically the same type of signal, but could you talk about the differences in use between cv (pitch, gate, trig) and audio signals?? this would be so helpful!!

Grest videos. May I offer a small suggestion? It might be helpful to talk a bit slower when you’re showing patching diagrams. Usually I’m looking at new modules and connections and it takes a while for my brain to figure out what’s happening. Thanks

Nice