@Paul the musicman can we get a Helium in Cubasis 3 tutorial or a link to one that you know of pleaseeeeee 🙏 I’ve seen it helps with the limitation of Cubasis 3 when it comes to multi midi routing
Although Helium works inside of Cubasis 3, I never thought the Cubasis editor was deficient enough to spend time making a tutorial inside of this app, whereas AUM really doesn't have any form of MIDI editor at all. It is just a case of balancing time between video production and development, so I will add it to my list.
@@PaultheMusicMan Thanks a lot . When it comes to multiple buses in the midi effects slot in Cubasis3 it’s limitations that your awesome Helium has rectified. I saw it in another small tutorial I was just thinking that maybe you could expound upon it . This the link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Gzac8JgtkVk.html
Thanks Jade, I know most of this is simple stuff for most of us but by going over the basics I can document it in my manual. It's easier to show people than explain with words!! lol
00:00 Intro 00:36 Loading Helium in AUM 00:58 Connecting an AU synth 01:27 Routing MIDI from Helium to synth 01:48 Zooming on the piano roll 02:27 Editing tools 03:48 Adjusting the grid 04:37 Paint tool 05:16 Controller lane 07:08 Loop recording 08:52 Step recording 09:57 Record/playback MIDI with a drum sequencer 12:49 Mixer 14:22 Menu options 15:20 Media bay quick review 15:49 Controller lane quick review 16:35 Cubasis 3 sampling rate bug, workaround
Hi Paul, Tried to download the clips as per instruction, the site is asking for credit card and personal date. I think that's the wrong site. Any suggestion very much apppreciated.
The MIDI clips are there included with Helium. All you need to do is run in standalone mode and they will be automatically installed. If you don't see them tap the monitor button at the bottom of the screen (standalone mode) and choose Restore Default Clip Library. If you work through my videos I do explain this in one of them.
Yes, I believe it is possible... at least I know someonw who managed it using MultiTrack Recorder, and since I duplicated the functionality I guess it should work. At some point I will be adding a song track which allows you to piece together automation to control both Helium and MTR.
@@PaultheMusicMan Cool, I watched a Jamie mallender vid where he trigger MTR loops from LK so it should work. Be cool to trigger midi and audio loops from LK in an Ableton stylee. On my long list of stuff to try.
@@suntanbear4763 Yeah, I'm working on adding more automation in the follow-up release so it should be interesting to see just how far we can push it!! And of course with both apps having that same control method I could possibly build in a master song track.
Really looking forward to this. I’m hoping to use it to record as I play. Is there a limit to the number of measures I can record to? Does it record the CC64 sustain?
I guess I like to stick to a particular stle so people know its a 4Pockets app. Not sure this really makes an app any better, but I'm also feeling the need for change.
Hi Paul ! Nice tutorial! I have a question it’s possible to trigger different Tracks using PC commands with a external midi controller? Like trigger PC0 to play track1 and then trigger PC1 to trigger track2 but track1 becomes muted?
Thank you for text me back ! Yes I watched and on section you explain Remote loop that’s what I am looking for but you trigger with a keyboard note and I need to know if it’s possible to do the same with PC commands (Program Change Mode) like PC0, PC1, PC2 etc? Can you help please :)
@@fernandodias112 Currently this is not possible, but I'm thinking of adding a second control port to the next version and I may look into adding this for you.
@@PaultheMusicMan @Fernando Dias If you open Helium's automation controls in AUM, there are controls for scheduling Loops 1-12, which can be triggered by PC messages routed to AUM's MIDI control input port.
@@GregoryRiker Thank you for trying to help me but I need some extra help how to do what you are trying to explain how to do! It is possible you can send me steps or some small tutorial just to understand how to route the PC messages please! Thank you for your kind! 😉I wait for your feed back I couldn’t find any tutorials about PC messages on AUM etc! Does the AUM recognize Bluetooth Midi controller with PC messages?
I am trying to transpose Helium within Cubasis. On another track feeding into the Helium track I have a midi sequence playing into a Mosaic MFX with a “key to CC” patch. The data passes to Helium and it transposes the loop but somehow all the notes get stuck. Any advice how to fix this?
Hello Mr. Paul. I am messing around with Helium now. I am not a very good musician, so I find H. useful to record my music and then play it decently. So I find the quantizing feature very useful. But I miss something that would be very handy to many people with sausage fingers as me. Could be added a percentage parameter that permitted quantize the duration of the note to the next measure? Let me explain myself. When I record my music from a keyboard, because I am not an accurate player, I have to adjust later the durations of almost all the notes to halves, quarters, octaves… and this is very time consuming. If l had a selectable parameter that allowed me to also quantize the duration of a note to the next beat division that would save a lot of time. Thanks and Merry Christmas!
If you tap on the Quantise button on the toolbar, you can select a quantise setting. You can also specify if you want to specify 'Note Ends' also. This means if the Quantise is set to 1/4 notes, the note lengths will be quantised to the nearest quater note also.
Not directly. It is an AUv3 plugin editor so need to be loaded into a host app such as AUM, but once loaded you should be able to control external equipment.
Hi. I recently got hold of helium along with a few more of your apps. I have a drop out issue you when I connect another instrument to channel 2? Any ideas. It is a very old iPod Cheers
What version of iOS are you running and how old is the iPod? It could just be that whatever instruments you are loading it is pushing the CPU to it's limits. Helium itself is not CPU intensive, but other instruments could be.
this looks so great i can’t wait! one question. is it possible to break a note up into smaller slices? for instance selecting a half note and breaking it up into 32nd notes, or 16th notes? or whatever the grid is set at?
@@PaultheMusicMan yes i like the paint tool. but i was just curious if there was a tools that would allow you to select a midi note that is already down on the piano roll, and chop it into smaller divisions? no worries if there isn’t’ just curious.
Well, after 40 minutes of playing around I have created something very different from what I would make in Gadget, Cubasis, etc. There’s a bit of a learning curve in moving things around on the piano roll, but I’m getting the hang of it. Is there any way to do scale quantisation on the piano roll? It’s not a big deal because my keyboard can do it, but I do like to see the notes available in a scale. Looking forward to playing with the automation and plumbing my sequencer (finally) into the big studio control surface. Great work.
@@AndyChannelle No worries, this is what I assumed you meant, and yes it is coming. Not in the next release due in a couple of days, but the release after that one.
Simply select a set of notes in the notes area using the 'Select' tool on the left toolbar, then pick 'Clipboard/Copy'. Place the play cursor at a location you wish to paste then select Clipboard/Paste. Just be careful to not use the controller copy/paste when your dealing with notes. For reference this is the 'Clipboard' button above the 'Delete' button on the left toolbar.
Love your apps Paul, I have atom but find it too fiddly, this is right up my street. Can you do randon notes, I read this is possible somewhere? Cheers
Are you using inside of AUM? If so you either need to enable SYNC so the transports synchronize start and stop. You also need to properly configure the routing from each track in Helium to your AUv3 instruments. To do this you can select a track using the MIDI Track selector, then long press the Track button and set the output MIDI channel and MIDI port. This app doesn't work in GarageBand since it doesn't allow MIDI routing. Once you set up where each track is going (channel and port) you need to tap the MENU next to the destination instrument and select one of Heliums MIDI ports as a source for the incoming MIDI notes.
Paul, I’m getting into remote looping with long section loops but seeing some inconsistent behaviour. In playback, triggering a loop earlier in the timeline moves the focus with the snapshot loop, but triggering a loop later in the timeline does not move grid focus. Dragging the grid timeline past the current loop will result in a jump back to loop in focus at next bar, moving grid timelilne before the current loop has no jump back to loop focus. When not in playback selecting a snapshot loop does not move the grid focus at all. It would seem to me that logical / most simple behaviour would be to go to snapshot loop in focus at all times, especially when host stopped. I have auto-scroll on. Is there something I’m not doing right here?
Yes, there are still little inconsistancies like this I am working on right now. I just released a new version that does fix a lot, but you pointed out some things I wasn't aware of and will take a look at. The snapshot implementation matches that in MTR, and I've mirrored it for a rason. I will be releasing a tutorial specifically on this next week.
@@PaultheMusicMan for the record, very happy with the app. Just bringing these up because I think it's great and want to use it. Will look forward to the looping video. Other two have been great. Cheers
@@SoundtempleMusic I hold my hands up and admit I'm not perfect and there are a few teething issues, especially outside of AUM where I did most of my testing, but I promise I will iron these issues out and make this a freat app. Thanks for your support mate.
Hi Paul, I'm leaving this comment on all your Helium vids as I'd like you to read this and make a couple of IMPORTANT fixes! I just purchased Helium today (after some issues where Atom2 wasn't a good fit.) I have a song that is a swung 3/4. It's annoying that Helium doesn't have swing (I knew that before buying) but thought I'd just record my parts without quantisation. But it seems quantisation can't be defeated. And there is no quantisation value that will play my rhythm correctly, So helium is useless for this song! Helium needs swing. but it DESPERATELY needs a way to record with quantisation of required! Hope you read this and make a few tweaks! THANKS!
Apologies, I was pretty sure I already replied to this comment as you posted the same one in multiple videos. I will add a way to turn off the quantise in the next version. Swing may take a little longer as there are a few complications I need to work around.
@@PaultheMusicMan Yes, I'm sorry you did reply to one of the other videos! Initially I just really wanted to attract your attention so I posted it on multiple videos. A bit spammy of me I know, but I wasn't sure you'd see any specific video comment so I upped my chances. Thanks for your response!
@@simongregory3114 If you set the quantise to 1/128 and the grid size to say 1/16 then you have effectively removed quantisation, although the next version has a true way to remove it completely. If you want swing, try settings the settings to 1/8 triplet on the quantise during recording. I know thats not the perfect solution but it may help for now.
@@PaultheMusicMan Thanks Paul. On further investigation I think the issue for me was actually that quantisation would sometimes correct my playing in the wrong direction, so rather than fixing my slightly out playing, it would make it slightly worse, whereas no quantisation would have been a bit sloppy, but acceptable given the style of music. I did try the triplet setting too. But I''l have another go with the settings you suggested.
