Love the irony that Arturia, a company founded on soft-synths, offers some of the best anti-computer hardware solutions out there lol. That's definitely how they got me as a customer.
I can tell they like music, and that’s why I like Arturia. Specialization be damned, they had an idea and they managed to totally kill it AND integrate their hardware offerings with their software library. Killer company.
I think about this all the time! Not only some of the best anti-computer hardware, but they were a key player in kicking off the analog revival with the Minibrute! They really shifted the whole industry to prove that analog gear could be more affordable, and that people wanted it. From a software company!
watching this video almost made me cry from awe.. this machine is exactly what i've been missing in my studio and hoping for to exist for years, and its just here , existing
This product is a godsend for those looking to efficiently interface between hardware and a DAW. It really takes the tediousness out of working with old gear not suited for modern studio needs. I love it because I now have way more time to work on arrangement, mixdown etc...
Got one of these and spent last two days noodling and messing around with it all hope gone now my wife has had enough she hates it thinks I have gone mad Doubt I'll ever play my Strat , Tele or Ibanez again.
With a midi-enabled loop/sample pedal you might be able to trigger guitar sounds but I don’t know what to tell you about the spouse except us3 headphones…
Hey Johnny! I just read your comment & it hits hard. I have 4 pawn tickets with all my guitars, kaoss pads, QU-16, JC-120, 6 electric guitars, a mandolin, Martin & fender acoustics plus more. I’m selling my van to pay the tickets and my girlfriend is bat shit crazy & I hope 8 years later that you found music again. I hope you dumped that girlfriend and made a best selling album! Best wishes
The. MIDI. device. of. Gods. And definitely the best tutorial so far, he does a fantastic job of quickly yet thoroughly showcasing nearly all of the core features and potential creative abilities. This is the greatest musical device I've ever owned. I never thought anything would complete with my love for my MPD 32.. Anyone want to buy a MPD 32?
+SourceDistributionTV i hate this sound sorry :-) it is too detuned a bit less would be better, perhaps also the scale does not fit right at all when you change notes order, really bad to ears, sometimes it sounded good when you changed some notes with the encoders
+SourceDistributionTV Anyway great controller/sequencer, i had just received today the device it feels build like a tank and fits very well in all the domains of the today´s music creation tools. Love it. i had buy it. Cause it is a very clever device at a very great price for what it does
Good tutorial/review... I just purchased one for 150$ at Sam Ash and the Midisport 4x4 to hook up all the volcas to it and it is AMAZING! Worth every penny! I have the Beats, Bass Keys running to it but I kept the sample out so I can manually control it. The keys is running thru my Keylab - BSP - Midisport which lets me control its parameters with the sliders and stuff. While everything is running to ableton for effects. Its hours of fun! ST@X13 SoundCloud
Had a white one, didn’t appreciate its awesomeness, sold it like a fool, now got a black one and loving it, got a black key step com8ng to match, fun!!!
I can use Arturia BeatStep USB MID CV Drum Controller Keyboard Analog Sequencer Synth New for my keyboards playing with keyboards Yamaha PSRE453 Electronic Keyboard Keyboard Roland Gaia SH-01 Synthesizer. What I will need for them for working ? I will need use for them Alto professional mixer ?
Mine just came in and its sitting in the box and I'm watching this just salivating because I don't have all the cables I need to connect my simmons SDSV rack
Awesome demo and jam!!! Love the aphex-esque grooves. I am ready to cash in some christmas gift certificates, and also recently sold a synth, I think I'll go with the beatstep pro. Although I keep looking at the electribe 2, and novation circuit, While those two are more portable, I think my best option is to go with the bs pro, and grab arturia's v collection while they have it on sale, to add a bit of soft synth in with the analog stuff in my setup.
The BeatStep Pro is from the start of my modular Eurorack journey my main sequencer. I Iove the possibility to program gate pattern or just play them live. But it’s not a mixer in any kind except if you use cv for vca for volume control.
could you help me just a bit set the user scale to A-sharp phrygian mode as you've demonstrated? Not quite sure what to turn on and off in the User Scale settings in MIDI control center. Wonderful tutorial BTW.
so just picked one up. have to say I love it besides to inability to turn of quantization (which I honestly think would make this unit a must have for every electric artist). feel they really need to do something about that and this unit would be perfect.
Great review thanks. Unfortunately it seems you can't transpose while playing sequences when triggered by an exterior clock or if you can can somebody please show me
Can it function as a MIDI to CV converter? It's important for me to know as I'm building a synth myself and if this would do Midi to CV it would solve a lot of problems.
Great video! Helps a lot. Can someone answer on one question? I use BSP with Behringer K2 (Korg MS-20 clone) and have a problem: transposing doesn't work with this synth. At the same time with dreadbox typhon and vst synths this function is working correct. Help me please (
but with that said I do have one question? I can't seem to figure out how to assign midi in to a certain sequencer (only the drum seq)? Im running cv to seq 1 & seq 2, but want my digital drum machine which only receives midi to be present on the drum seq only. anyone know how to do this? not sure why I can't figure this out.
Question - is there any device that I can load 4 of my own (wav) samples with - and then trigger those samples using an external device by pressing only one midi note? So every time I press the same key on a keyboard, the sequencer will play one of my 4 samples - seems pretty basic and I was able to do this in 1989 - I cant imagine that this is not possible today. Thanks in advance
Does anybody know if this has MIDI thru functionality? Can I slave the BeatStep to a drum machine's clock while the BeatStep is simultaneously controlling an external synth, for example?
Amazing demo! Anyone know how well this controls the old roland jx-3p thru gate cv sync24? Im building a small studio around the jx3p to play arps, basslines or chords. Wondering what people's dream setup would be. Jx3p, sampler, drum machine, 2nd synth non analog ok.
How well, if at all, will the drum lane work with a percussion set on a keyboard synth? Specifically I'm wondering about the Nord Lead 2x; would like to be able to control the Lead's percussion banks with this, but I'm not sure how well that'll work.
I would love to use hardware with this Bc that seems ideal but can’t quite afford it yet as a teenager lol. Is there a way to route the beatstep pro in the exact same way but with VST’s? Having one sound on one sequence, one on another, a drum kit on another, etc. ? Would appreciate if you could get back to me, thanks.
I have one of these and it`s a Godsend about a Million times better than the old Beatstep ( which I ended up only really using as a basic midi controller )
great video, just bought one. Some questions, in this video whats connected through Midi Clock Out? I want to connect a X0XB0X a Microbrute and the MFB 522, how will I do that the best and if I just want some others to follow from the Beatstep Pro with Midi whats the best way to connect them without interfering with Midi signals? for example can I connect something through from the X0XB0X?
Thanks! The Juno was connected via MIDI, not for clocking but just to trigger its voice note by note. There's a number of different ways to connect them, you might just need to get a MIDI Splitter (e.g Kenton THRU5, MIDI Solutions Thru, ESI MikroThru) if you don't have a MIDI Thru on the x0xb0x - that'll let you 'clone' the Beatstep's clock to send it to clock multiple devices when those devices don't have built in MIDI Thru ports to pass on the data to the next machine.
Hi! For the beatstep pro I have a moog voyager and a nord drum 2...all channels (6 ) of the nord drum 2 are connected separately on cv, just like the moog. How can I use them with ableton? I mean how could I connect them to eachother and what should I do in the ableton? Please help! :)
Thanks for the great break down! Is it possible to be able to play your Juno (so not through the pads) and have the beat step pick up the notes. I'm also stuggling to find out is it possible to record in motion sequencing and get the Beat step to pick it up. So for example the way you would press record on a volca bass and it would pick up all the knob turns to creat a dynamic motion sequenced bass line, can this be done and picked up as a sequence on the Beat Step? cheers!
For anyone not into sequencing modular gear the novation circuit might be a much better alternative. It comes with an actual polyphonic sequencer, which the BSP lacks. For instance if you own external gear like the Erebus with has two voices (2 OSC) you would have to program both sequencer lanes of the BSP to make the most out of the Erebus. Using CV you could lay both OSC when on the same gated step. So if you are most likely going to use midi anyway than try the NC orse a good ol MPC which still is the best midi solution . Comes with 4 midi outs, polyphony and as mayn tracks as you need. Compared to this the BSP feels like a backstep. If you plan to seq. a Volca Sample mind you not as easy as they tell you.
@@effiksmusic Thank you but this is not what I mean. Sometimes I have all steps in blue. I figured it out, it has to do with the tie function in the sequencer's gate mode
Hi, is there any similar sequencer that allows at least 128 steps? Yeah, and I don't mean setting the tempo to twice as slow value, because of quantisation :/
question: with a controller keyboard attached, can you transpose the sequences? So for example, have your left hand holding a C on a controller keyboard, then playing F . . . will the Sequencer(s) also move with the note played? Thanks!
I'm confused about a lot of what's going on in the video. Does anyone have any recommendations on learning the functions of drum machines and stuff like this? Interconnecting with other instruments, VSTs and stuff with different MIDI messages and channels really throws me. Thanks for any help.
Love the irony that Arturia, a company founded on soft-synths, offers some of the best anti-computer hardware solutions out there lol. That's definitely how they got me as a customer.
Arturia is a force to to be reckoned wih
I can tell they like music, and that’s why I like Arturia. Specialization be damned, they had an idea and they managed to totally kill it AND integrate their hardware offerings with their software library. Killer company.
I think about this all the time! Not only some of the best anti-computer hardware, but they were a key player in kicking off the analog revival with the Minibrute! They really shifted the whole industry to prove that analog gear could be more affordable, and that people wanted it. From a software company!
Oh dear... something else wonderful which I didn't realize I NEEDED.
Damn Yeah! That video just cost me 200 EUR :D
Word up on that I believe I need this too
watching this video almost made me cry from awe.. this machine is exactly what i've been missing in my studio and hoping for to exist for years, and its just here , existing
Your. Demos. Are. The. Best.
+Montgomery Word You're the best! Thanks
W.
This product is a godsend for those looking to efficiently interface between hardware and a DAW. It really takes the tediousness out of working with old gear not suited for modern studio needs. I love it because I now have way more time to work on arrangement, mixdown etc...
The best Arturia Beat StepPro demo so far! Thanks for sharing
Outstanding!! THE BEST BEATSTEP PRO VIDEO ON TH-cam!!!)
This is the video demo that Arturia should have done! Nice job - very helpful and this is a fabulous product at a sensible price.
Simon Bailey Thanks, but wait till you see their demo video, it's pretty brilliant...!
SourceDistributionTV .... so not the guy with the shades / leather jacket combo then?!
Simon Bailey Sebastian (who's on the BeatStep development team) smashes it - musically speaking that is, not literally... :)
Fantastic to hear from Mylar Melodies on tutorial duties, a great and inspiring video all round!
Very convincing application and cool weird choices, not the least bit typical - a synthist after my own heart!
@ 3:45
...exactly thats why I love your Demos the MOST! Specialy your modular demos!!
Thanks for this, really helpful as a complete hardware synth noob to (finally) find a video that explains how to actually use one of these!
Alex, I really enjoy your enthusiasm, combined with your excellent presentation. Thanks very much!
Best breakdown of this device that I could find on TH-cam. Thank you!
What a good demo showing all the functions of the Beatstep Pro.
Now I know that's the sequencer I've been waiting for.
Thank you.
Got one of these and spent last two days noodling and messing around with it all hope gone now my wife has had enough she hates it thinks I have gone mad Doubt I'll ever play my Strat , Tele or Ibanez again.
@ZionHillCalling she is good enough^^ imagine the horror if the next one can do more than one sequence at a time, like the BSP...
my drumbrute slowed my bass playing quite a bit all I wanted was a beat and instead I realized I bought a whole other instrument
With a midi-enabled loop/sample pedal you might be able to trigger guitar sounds but I don’t know what to tell you about the spouse except us3 headphones…
Hey Johnny! I just read your comment & it hits hard. I have 4 pawn tickets with all my guitars, kaoss pads, QU-16, JC-120, 6 electric guitars, a mandolin, Martin & fender acoustics plus more. I’m selling my van to pay the tickets and my girlfriend is bat shit crazy & I hope 8 years later that you found music again. I hope you dumped that girlfriend and made a best selling album! Best wishes
hope arturia payed you because this is hands down the best demo!
What an amazing sequences… thanks for all the tips
The. MIDI. device. of. Gods. And definitely the best tutorial so far, he does a fantastic job of quickly yet thoroughly showcasing nearly all of the core features and potential creative abilities. This is the greatest musical device I've ever owned. I never thought anything would complete with my love for my MPD 32.. Anyone want to buy a MPD 32?
finally someone covered the 303 style +100 kudos points
Really useful video. The Beatstep pro is so much better than the standard Beatstep.
I could listen to this music all day.
I watch this every few months if I'm lacking in inspiration. Hoooly balls.
Just dropping in to say I still rewatch this video every now and then
love this whole set up wit the Juno-60. sounds like some pure aphex
+James C Ha, thanks! The detune mode on the Tubbutec mod for the Juno 60 does create instant 'sick RDJ pads' too, it's quite a sound...
+SourceDistributionTV i hate this sound sorry :-) it is too detuned a bit less would be better, perhaps also the scale does not fit right at all when you change notes order, really bad to ears, sometimes it sounded good when you changed some notes with the encoders
+Fernando Monreal Ha, I recommend you don't listen to any AFX! :)
+SourceDistributionTV Anyway great controller/sequencer, i had just received today the device it feels build like a tank and fits very well in all the domains of the today´s music creation tools. Love it. i had buy it. Cause it is a very clever device at a very great price for what it does
you think i can be able to this on korg minilogue? it has 2 oscilators and pitch knob
Good tutorial/review... I just purchased one for 150$ at Sam Ash and the Midisport 4x4 to hook up all the volcas to it and it is AMAZING! Worth every penny! I have the Beats, Bass Keys running to it but I kept the sample out so I can manually control it. The keys is running thru my Keylab - BSP - Midisport which lets me control its parameters with the sliders and stuff. While everything is running to ableton for effects. Its hours of fun! ST@X13 SoundCloud
you need this midi sport thing to use volca with the bsp? i have FM and Beats and a BSP and having trouble getting them to act correctly.
Yes!! I looked on mylarmelodies' channel and found no demo on this but hark! This is here
I already was looking at the Beatstep but now you've convinced me to get this instead. This thing is blowing my mind!
The difference being..............!?
@@chinmeysway The Beatstep was only one channel, the Beatstep Pro is two sequencer channels and full 8 drum gates on a third channel.
Had a white one, didn’t appreciate its awesomeness, sold it like a fool, now got a black one and loving it, got a black key step com8ng to match, fun!!!
Yay, it's Mylar!! 😁 ACE!
Best demo I've seen in a while. Thanks man. And I learned a lil something about Richard D James as well. Cheers
I can use Arturia BeatStep USB MID CV Drum Controller Keyboard Analog Sequencer Synth New for my keyboards playing with keyboards Yamaha PSRE453 Electronic Keyboard Keyboard Roland Gaia SH-01 Synthesizer. What I will need for them for working ? I will need use for them Alto professional mixer ?
very good descriptive and creative demo
Wow, Mylar was in a very Aphex mood when he recorded this demo.
Just sort of naturally happened! Although I did purposefully program one of his favourite scales into it (A# Phrygian)
You're a pro. Love your style
Mine just came in and its sitting in the box and I'm watching this just salivating because I don't have all the cables I need to connect my simmons SDSV rack
We need that amazing background music for listen in our ears
This is a delicious piece of kit.
Awesome demo and jam!!!
Love the aphex-esque grooves.
I am ready to cash in some christmas gift certificates, and also recently sold a synth, I think I'll go with the beatstep pro. Although I keep looking at the electribe 2, and novation circuit, While those two are more portable, I think my best option is to go with the bs pro, and grab arturia's v collection while they have it on sale, to add a bit of soft synth in with the analog stuff in my setup.
would anyone recommend this as a cheaper option for a Sequencer, clock source and maybe even a mixer for a modular synth?
The BeatStep Pro is from the start of my modular Eurorack journey my main sequencer. I Iove the possibility to program gate pattern or just play them live. But it’s not a mixer in any kind except if you use cv for vca for volume control.
In this video Alex uses the BeatStep Pro as well with modular gear: th-cam.com/video/F81XHfEsl1c/w-d-xo.html
could you help me just a bit set the user scale to A-sharp phrygian mode as you've demonstrated? Not quite sure what to turn on and off in the User Scale settings in MIDI control center. Wonderful tutorial BTW.
so just picked one up. have to say I love it besides to inability to turn of quantization (which I honestly think would make this unit a must have for every electric artist). feel they really need to do something about that and this unit would be perfect.
That's all I needed too see and listen... I'm getting one...
Great review thanks. Unfortunately it seems you can't transpose while playing sequences when triggered by an exterior clock or if you can can somebody please show me
Say I bought this, would I still be able to play on my synthesizer while the patterns are running?
Yes.
great demo - so much potential!
Awesoem stuff's....I have been looking for these kind of videos since hours now.
anyone know how to drop my default octave range by an octave?
Cant see it in the video above and cant find it in the manual.
Brilliant review thank you for explaining everything so well.
Lovely found the brain for my dawless set up
I would like to buy your album. I like the music you made with this.
You call random notes farts and buzz a music? lol
@@montazownianr1 are you like, a hillbilly, b1937?
how do you program a half step into the sequencer... like 16 steps how do put a sound on 15.5 mark? thanks
Can it function as a MIDI to CV converter? It's important for me to know as I'm building a synth myself and if this would do Midi to CV it would solve a lot of problems.
Wow😮 how do you do with Cv (dfam, mother) -5 / +5?
Thanks friend!
Can you connect a keyboard so you can play chords etc
wonder how well this pairs with vcv rack
Great video! Helps a lot. Can someone answer on one question?
I use BSP with Behringer K2 (Korg MS-20 clone) and have a problem: transposing doesn't work with this synth. At the same time with dreadbox typhon and vst synths this function is working correct. Help me please (
but with that said I do have one question? I can't seem to figure out how to assign midi in to a certain sequencer (only the drum seq)? Im running cv to seq 1 & seq 2, but want my digital drum machine which only receives midi to be present on the drum seq only. anyone know how to do this? not sure why I can't figure this out.
Question - is there any device that I can load 4 of my own (wav) samples with - and then trigger those samples using an external device by pressing only one midi note? So every time I press the same key on a keyboard, the sequencer will play one of my 4 samples - seems pretty basic and I was able to do this in 1989 - I cant imagine that this is not possible today. Thanks in advance
Really good video! Thx a lot. But i miss the option to ad accents to zhe drums. How would you fix that? With the velocity output?
is it stand alone do i need a computer
Stand alone!
nice video Alex. Thanks for sharing.
Does anybody know if this has MIDI thru functionality? Can I slave the BeatStep to a drum machine's clock while the BeatStep is simultaneously controlling an external synth, for example?
BSP aside (I have one), there are some really nice tunes in this demo.
that Juno 60 sounds beautiful.. gotta take a look at that tubbutec mod!
+Ian Hicks also.. do you have any music up on soundcloud or anything? really digging your jams!
The most intuitive organic instinct-like sequencing unit ever!!!!
nice jams btw :D loving the sound
Amazing demo! Anyone know how well this controls the old roland jx-3p thru gate cv sync24? Im building a small studio around the jx3p to play arps, basslines or chords. Wondering what people's dream setup would be. Jx3p, sampler, drum machine, 2nd synth non analog ok.
iF ITS MIDI REGARDLESS OFF AGE IT WILL WORK!
So you can have the drum part loop over 1-2 bars even when you have the sequencer parts set to 4 bars? If so that kind of rocks for quick composition
How well, if at all, will the drum lane work with a percussion set on a keyboard synth? Specifically I'm wondering about the Nord Lead 2x; would like to be able to control the Lead's percussion banks with this, but I'm not sure how well that'll work.
I would love to use hardware with this Bc that seems ideal but can’t quite afford it yet as a teenager lol. Is there a way to route the beatstep pro in the exact same way but with VST’s? Having one sound on one sequence, one on another, a drum kit on another, etc. ? Would appreciate if you could get back to me, thanks.
om my god what a cool bit of kit!
I have one of these and it`s a Godsend about a Million times better than the old Beatstep ( which I ended up only really using as a basic midi controller )
Hi very good domo tell me because I'm new to this, can you play on the hard wear synth or you have to play on the arturia thanks 👍
Have you any details on the coloured mono leads you are using ?
Much appreciated
this video convinced me to buy this machine, thanks :)
great video, just bought one. Some questions, in this video whats connected through Midi Clock Out? I want to connect a X0XB0X a Microbrute and the MFB 522, how will I do that the best and if I just want some others to follow from the Beatstep Pro with Midi whats the best way to connect them without interfering with Midi signals? for example can I connect something through from the X0XB0X?
Thanks! The Juno was connected via MIDI, not for clocking but just to trigger its voice note by note. There's a number of different ways to connect them, you might just need to get a MIDI Splitter (e.g Kenton THRU5, MIDI Solutions Thru, ESI MikroThru) if you don't have a MIDI Thru on the x0xb0x - that'll let you 'clone' the Beatstep's clock to send it to clock multiple devices when those devices don't have built in MIDI Thru ports to pass on the data to the next machine.
Hi! For the beatstep pro I have a moog voyager and a nord drum 2...all channels (6 ) of the nord drum 2 are connected separately on cv, just like the moog. How can I use them with ableton? I mean how could I connect them to eachother and what should I do in the ableton? Please help! :)
Suberb demo. Can't say any more than that!
Awesome gear and love your music man.I am getting one now.
Thanks for the great break down! Is it possible to be able to play your Juno (so not through the pads) and have the beat step pick up the notes. I'm also stuggling to find out is it possible to record in motion sequencing and get the Beat step to pick it up. So for example the way you would press record on a volca bass and it would pick up all the knob turns to creat a dynamic motion sequenced bass line, can this be done and picked up as a sequence on the Beat Step? cheers!
Can the the drum gates in the rear panel be controlled by midi? I want to trigger an old analog drum module that takes 1/4 inputs.
+D Fins Yes you can do that!
For anyone not into sequencing modular gear the novation circuit might be a much better alternative. It comes with an actual polyphonic sequencer, which the BSP lacks. For instance if you own external gear like the Erebus with has two voices (2 OSC) you would have to program both sequencer lanes of the BSP to make the most out of the Erebus. Using CV you could lay both OSC when on the same gated step. So if you are most likely going to use midi anyway than try the NC orse a good ol MPC which still is the best midi solution . Comes with 4 midi outs, polyphony and as mayn tracks as you need. Compared to this the BSP feels like a backstep. If you plan to seq. a Volca Sample mind you not as easy as they tell you.
When I have a pattern running why do some steps have a blue light when I am in sequencer and press shift?
The blue light pads show if some of the shift functions are on or off. Look these up in the Cheat Sheet for BeatStep Pro.
@@effiksmusic Thank you but this is not what I mean. Sometimes I have all steps in blue. I figured it out, it has to do with the tie function in the sequencer's gate mode
@@mcgrandroyal ah yes this, I didn’t think of this. Yes, this is the tie function. Very nice function too.
Do you have a link or descriotiom of those leads you are using on the drum outputs ?
They look like quality
Much appreciated 😊
Great demo! Thank you
Great demo. But how can the clock in and out be used? Can be used with external sequencers or LFOs?
Absolutely Fantastic Video... I want one :D
Hi, is there any similar sequencer that allows at least 128 steps? Yeah, and I don't mean setting the tempo to twice as slow value, because of quantisation :/
is it possible to adjust the cv output on the beatstep pro?
what is there so good in this .. that would beat push2 ?
question: with a controller keyboard attached, can you transpose the sequences? So for example, have your left hand holding a C on a controller keyboard, then playing F . . . will the Sequencer(s) also move with the note played? Thanks!
is there an option to make a beat but you hear it through your headphones and if its good you can add it to the speaker?
Question! Would having a midi splitter let me control 4 separate synths..like volcas?
gooneybird808 Yes - just bear in mind BS Pro can only send on three separate MIDI channels!
But you wouldn’t be able to have 3 separate sequencer patterns, right??
Is it capable of slide/ portamento on a per note basis ?
I'm confused about a lot of what's going on in the video. Does anyone have any recommendations on learning the functions of drum machines and stuff like this? Interconnecting with other instruments, VSTs and stuff with different MIDI messages and channels really throws me. Thanks for any help.
+stgfan11 Well the video explains the Beatstep pretty well. I'm more confused with connections and controlling external instruments :)
Thank you for breaking it down.
Fantastic tunes, my b. Pro comes tomorrow whoooooooohaaaaa
Got one (a working replacement). Fun, fun, fun!
is it possible to save/record sounds on this device so midi (ableton) is not needed to play live?
+Frederik Poisquet Yes, well, save/recall sequences.
This demo was... ace!