My first little Max4Live project. A monophonic midi step sequencer.
On the surface it’s reasonably standard. It’s a grid based sequencer – notes, gate, tie, velocity and two control changes. What’s unique about it is that you can set different loop points for each of those elements, which allows for anything from simple 303-style basslines to endlessly evolving, rotating, mutating melody lines.
The other unique thing about this is that it’s designed to work solely within musical scales. The sequencer ‘grid’ adapts itself to whatever scale you choose. Choose a chromatic scale, and you get a full 12 steps to play with, but choose a pentatonic scale and the grid automatically adapts itself to show only 5 rows. You don’t need to know any music theory to get great results.
Add to all that a bunch of useful randomisation options and it becomes a really useful tool.
Anyway, this video will explain better.
this looks great, just my kind of thing.
If you’re doing more MFL stuff i would love a version of metal mickey. Thats still a favourite of mine.
Hi Martin,
Great idea. I miss Mickey since I ditched PC like a hot potato. I just need to get my head around audio processing in Max.
Rozzer :)
Thanks, great Step Sequencer! Also many thanks for the video, it gives a very good overview.
Awesome video, and this looks like a great device. I especially love the separate loop points for different attributes… I don’t think I’ve ever used a device where the length wasn’t global. Thank you!