What's New? | KeyStep Pro - Firmware 2.5 

Hi ... Still no ratcheting. ?!

A couple of welcome features. However, KSP is still missing ratchet play/record and Mod/PB strip record. Scene chaining, track layering, more octaves, sustain pedal release duration would also be welcome.

The latching transpose is a very welcome addition. I don't personally need the program changes, but I'm glad to see you're adding new features in several areas. Keep it up!

No ratcheting or beat repeat per track still 😢

This is a beautiful piece of product design. Good job Arturia!

Very welcome update! Especially the per track settings including Program Changes per pattern 😊 Hopefully the release of the Chroma edition will regain interest for the KSP and we’ll see more nice updates for the Original and Black editions, too 👍🏻

Thanks for the latching transpose, which makes the transpose function work in a more intuitive way! And thanks for the firmware updates! As a long time Arturia customer I knew times when that didn't work that well (analog factory). But with the microfreak your firmware update policy was exemplary. I also have the microbrute and the minibrute 2 and apart from the sticky-knob-issue I love them both. I had the Beatstep pro and the original Keystep but sold them after buying the Keystep pro. And I've got the V-Collection (since V2) that keeps being interesting and has been setting an example on the market, after which other brands began to develop synthesizer colledctions too. All in all, after all these years I still love your gear, while my fascination for a lot of other products of other brands has declined. Thanks, Arturia!

Thank you sooo much Arturia for the new program change feature included in the firmware update 2.5! This was the missing gem in this awesome device! Now it's there! Awesome! You made my day! 🥰🤩🥳

Pas encore essayé la maj2.5... mais le programme change était indispensable pour du live!!! C'est top Merci❤ j'attendais que ça... je ne m'en servais plus à cause de ça !!! 🎉 Encore une mise à jour pour rendre le beatstep pro polyphonique 🙏 et c'est parfait !!!

Well done Arturia for the much needed update!🤘

Finally full velocity 👍🏼

A welcome update. The new chroma version looks nice.

De très bonnes nouveautés....dommage, on ne peut toujours pas enregistrer les mouvements de pitch bend et modulation (ou alors j'ai loupé un épisode ?)

The keystep stand is hilarious 😂

Can the Program Change be used to scroll through presets in say Analog Lab? That would be great

both points made very clear! brava! 😅

I wonder... Will there be similar updates for KeyStep 37 ?

Program changes are the only thing i felt I was missing. I am complete.

Flawless update here with a couple of cool features I've asked and been waiting for (transpose latch, program change... ) 🤩 So 👍👍 Arturia!

Program changes are not working on mine. I've spent hours troubleshooting and I'm confident the problem is the KSP, not user error. I'm pissed.

@Arturia Does this mean that I can pattern sync my Elektron machines with the KSP? It's been a dream of mine for years but for a long time has just been lingering in a drawer with bad smelling farts

Welcome update. Scene chaining please!

Arturia taking requests for Minibrute 2s updates? I wish I could get more note range on the pads in scale mode. Please assign each pad its own unique note in scale mode so we can get 2 octaves+ out of it! Like KORG does with the Volca modular. As of now, for the MB2s, you only get like 6 unique notes on the pads when in scale mode since there are repeat notes within the 12 note pads. Seems like a bit of an oversight, and I'd get way more use out of the velocity/pressure pads if I could condense my scales to multiple octaves with the pads. Thanks Arturia!

Banger update! Merci Arturia

I‘ so glad I ordered the white one!

What studio table is that?

Wish we could set the track one drum voices to different midi channels for each voice! Would be an easy to implement update and greatly increase Keystep Pro’s utility. I’d love to use it to trigger 6 drum multis on Virus TI2 , reserving the other 3 tracks for bass/lead/pad

It doesn’t send program change to jx08 correctly- why?

Does this update turn it into a full-size keyboard? If it does I'll finally buy one.

All very nice but also think about updating your other products such as the minilab 3.... thanks

Record arp mode?

neat! If I hadn't just bought the MKIII essentials and the beatstep pro I would totally get this special edition keystep pro. Super pretty. Maybe I'll sell them to get it but we'll see. Super neat new features though.

When I change patterns on the drum track say 1 to 2, it misses the first note

Page 2 for 4 more tracks please 🤩

I want this so bad, but for $575 plus tax, I feel like I could buy a ln amazing synth instead. Wish theyd do a full size key version too.

Does the Keystep Pro have to ability to lock to a specific key? that would be handy with the latch transpose

As a decent song mode is missing it would be nice if the KSP would also respond to incoming program changes. So not only sending them. Loading projects and changing / chaining patterns could then be done from another sequencer so the sequences on the KSP could be integrated.

thank god for the program change update. that feature is vital and it's why i keep buying my same old controller when i wear it out. while i like having the MSB/LSB flexibility, having a not so buried PC change would be still so helpful. i loved the old shift + octave up/down = PC inc/dec like in old yamahas. can't for the life of me understand why something like that is so hard to do amidst all of the sophistication in modern controllers

why did they decided to exemplify fixed velocity on step mode? isn't velocity on step mode already fixed? btw loved the program change function!

Would be nice also to add MIDI CC independent by MIDI CH, meaning if I'm on track 4, assuming is on Midi CH 4 as well, have the ability to set CC to the 5 encoders in the same midi CH, and if you change let say to track 3 (MIDi CH also 3), the encoders can send different CC to a different implementation. That way, if you are controlling 2 or more synths, you cand send CC independently.

Puh, I am almost happy that you didn't revamp the Arpeggiator with a rhythmic functionality, like the Uno synth Pro has (but sadly only monotimbral), though it would be the most natural and logical usage for the 16 steps in Arp mode. On and off for certain Arp steps. Now I still don't have to buy the Keystep Pro and to wonder where to find a place for it (I would have long ago, if the Arp would have the aforementioned feature). Maybe in 2025 with V3.0 ? 😉😮‍💨

Beautiful Elena )

How about showing us how to install the update?

Anyone else having trouble with getting program changes to work at all? I must've gone over the steps twenty times and it just is not doing anything. I've tried it with my monologue, SE-02, MS2000R and Microfreak. I'm able to send program changes to all of these from my laptop/Reason with no issue. I have to be missing something really simple.

The new program change feature is not working for me in some patterns. I updated to Firmware v. 2.5.14, but no program change, MSB or LSB data is being transmitted in some cases. I have carefully followed the instructions in the new manual, but monitoring MIDI Outs 1-4 with MIDI-OX and Borne SendSX shows that no program change, MSB or LSB data is being received, my DAW is not receiving such data and my hardware synths are not changing programs. UPDATE 11 DEC: After doing a hard reset, program changes ARE working, but only in blank patterns. Pre-recorded patterns in saved projects do not accept program change data. UPDATE 12 DEC: Newly recorded patterns in newly created projects DO now accept program change data. Old patterns in old projects created with the previous firmware and backed up using MIDI Control Center then imported DO NOT accept program change data. Having a similar problem? Report it to Arturia support.

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About time we had a firmware update. But it's EXTREMELY underwhelming. Seriously. It took over a year to make this update? This feels more like appeasement. Least effort possible. How much more resources went into making the Chroma vs. making this firmware update? I'd bet good money that a LOT more effort was put into the Chroma. Still waiting for things 90s synths could do. As in record pitch bend, mod wheel, and aftertouch. I can record these from my KSP into my freakin Korg Trinity. But not on the KSP itself. That's insane! I'm not some drooling fanboi who praises and kow tows over any update. I'll call you out. And I am. This update has been a long LONG time coming, and includes things that should have been there from the very start.What the hell have you been doing that this seriously underwhelming firmware update is all the gruel you're giving us? And saying it's "free" as if that's some huge non-standard blessing. No. It's the expected and normal behavior for any company. Any and all firmware updates are free for the entire life of the product. No need to tell us it's free, cuz it damn well better be.

Cool. Now all this needs is OSC.

Finally, Program Change capability - 24 months after release, better late than never I guess. I wonder when the Keystep Pro II will be released?

Shit, forGET the keystep pro.

I want to marry Lena!

I thank you for not wearing bra 😐

Hi, I need my money back, please. The keylab 88mk2 is literally the worst midi controller I have ever owned I sincerely hate it. Whoever designed it did a very terrible job. And I want an apology letter and a check for a thousand dollars Arturia. Thanks

Basic feature update to sell old hardware in a new package on xmas 2023. Disappointing.