Keystep Pro 2.0 Manual

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Aug 4, 2024, 3:58:54 PM8/4/24

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Youcan set the midi channel of your keystep by pressing shift and the related key to the channel that you want, keep in mind that the keystep is set always on channel 1 if not modified and hermod uses the channel one to play on the active track. If somebody wants to reassign the channels you could do that by going to setting in the track page of hermod.

If you wanna reassign certain functions regarding the keystep you can download the free arturia software midi control center and connect the keystep

Can anyone help here. Its a bit of a problem for me as i would like to input notes with the keystep (playing samples). Surely this can be done? Ive tried everything. All sync options and pad midi options. Nothing lets me input a note. The pad blinks so its receiving the information(midi monitor shows this as well). But thats its no notes being recorded in the step recording mode.

Thanks Stefan. Yes i can record live no problem pressing record out of Step Programming/Edit. But not in Step Proramming itself(so inputting individual notes chords etc with the keystep). Brad said if enough people are interested it may be a feature in the future. But at the moment as it turns out you cant. Cheers dude.

Hey everyone I am having trouble figuring out how to sync my keystep pro with logic. Essentially I would like logic to be in control of tempo and I am going to use my keystep to branch that out into other hardware. I downloaded midi control center but I kind of was overwhelmed there. Any help is welcome thanks!

In Keystep Pro: What's already been stated above; the default settings are clock 'on' as above, and source 'Auto' - which I like because I can start Logic, and have everything connected to the KSP sync, or just fall back to using the KSP without Logic when I'm not actively working WITH Logic.

I've had the most success syncing my gear with the Logic Pro Clock Mode set to Pattern; the song modes frequently caused drift over time with at least one thing, either the KSP, or drumbrute, or whatever. This, however, is obviously different for different songs, hardware, etc... otherwise there wouldn't be 4 LP settings for it. Find the one that works for you.

Hello, I have my iPad Air 2020 connected via USB C to my Arturia KeyStep. When I run a MIDI sequencer like SnakeBud in AUM, the CV and Gate outputs of the KeyStep send control voltage according to SnakeBud to my modular synth based on the clock within AUM. However, when I connect the clock out of the KeyStep to the clock of the modular synth, the KeyStep is not putting out any clock signal, unless I set it to the internal clock mode, which is a different one than the AUM clock. Does anyone have experience how I can send the AUM clock through KeySteps clock output?

@christsinfamie said:

From what I can see you just need to change MIDI Out to MIDI Thru in the Keystep settings. Check the manual. I'd link it but I don't know for sure which model you have. This is assuming your firmware is up to date as well. There wasn't always a MIDI Thru option.

I have tried to read the manual. (It says someting about sending to a JACK-port. I am not using JACK at all and the manual also says clearly that JACK is not needed since v 4.0 and I am using the latest version.

There is an outbound and inbound MIDI port for MIDI clock. You need to connect to the appropriate other port (e.g. whatever hardware port your Arturia shows up as). You can do this in Window > MIDI Connections

Midi Clock Out to MIDI 1 Out seemed counter-intuitive, the fact that the Novation was then receiving MIDI Clock and not responding correctly before the total reset, and the red herring of the Global Track in the Novation doc. Previously I had also expected the Midi Channel Selector to parse input as well as output from disk before confirming that it is output only - hence the requirement of the plugin.

The other day, I picked up the Arturia Keystep. I was looking for a MIDI controller to sequence both hardware and software gear. I've been having a lot of fun hooking up my Korg Volca FM, Korg MS-20 Mini, Elektron Analog Rytm, and the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators. Being able to sequence the Volca and MS-20 with the Keystep has been a blast.

So the day I got it, I decided to experiment with some live video streaming. So I streamed the entire experience to YouTube as it unfolded. The result is an hour long unboxing and exploration. There's a little head scratching too. This was before I RTFM, so I missed a few important things. After a quick browsing of the manual, my confusions were cleared up, and now the Keystep is rocking my hardware setup! Perhaps I'll broadcast a live jam soon.

But anyway, here is the live video I made. There are high and low points, so I apologize for that ( I guess that's the risk of doing live videos!), but Tim Webb of Discchord.com says my personality carried it through (glad to hear I have personality!). So if you are interested in the Keystep, sit back and enjoy. Feel free to skip around :)

My buddy Mike and I spent an afternoon jamming on some hardware. He had his MS-20, a couple Volcas, a Monotribe, and the Minilogue. I was using the Elektron Analog Rytm (ruining the all Korg experience). He filmed the jam with a couple of cameras. Here's that video now:

So please find a way to allow the transport to be manually started and stopped when the device is synced to MIDI clock. I find the current implementation very limiting. My suggestion would be to allow this when Ableton Link is enabled (even without any peer present).

In addition I would even go a step further and allow syncing with MIDI clock while ignoring start/stop messages. I am often jamming with others, and we just want to keep our sequencers in sync without starting/stopping our band mates gear.

I understand why MIDI clock in connection with START, STOP and CONTINUE makes sense. And I am not aware of any hardware MIDI implementation that does not allow the player to manually start and stop the sequencer. Having the flexibility of starting and stopping Drambo manually does not stop the use of the system realtime messages. As I said, this is an annoying limitation in a jam situation. Specially when your iPad is part of a hardware centered setup and you play with other people who use hardware synths. Ableton Link does not work with most hardware synths. I just do not want to be at the mercy of someone else sending me start and stop messages and I cannot even stop the transport when clock is present.

That's an interesting off-standard request. Keep in mind though that while LINK is a peer to peer thing, MIDI clock sync is always a master to slave relation with only the master sending transport status control. And none of my hardware sequencers (Korg, elektron, Roland, Yamaha) will let me start or stop the sequencer manually while in MIDI clock slave mode.

Enabling MIDI clock master mode in Drambo with LINK enabled could make Drambo send appropriate clock messages along with transport control to keep in line with the LINK beat meter, effectively making Drambo a LINK to MIDI converter. Nothing wrong with that.

Enabling MIDI clock slave mode in Drambo with LINK enabled would effectively mean that Drambo needs to sync to LINK instead of MIDI clock. Which connects the transport control to starting or stopping at the correct beat position.

If you really want to be able to start and stop locally while synced to MIDI clock (and, to repeat, no hardware I know of does that), it would still mean that there needs to be one single clock master in your jam session with all jammers slaving to it. It would be up to each musician to hit start or stop at the correct downbeat in order to avoid rhythmic offsets.

LINK is good and allows easy sync of WiFi connected devices. MIDI clock could be generated with a (hosted) Drambo module that gives you full control over clock and status messages to send to your hardware.

It could be done inside Streambyter. IMO the easiest workaround would be to use a Clock Generator into a MIDI PC generator to generate pulses in sync with Drambo's (LINK synced) transport and add a Streambyter AUv3 instance to convert the program change message "C0 01" into "F8" and add a similar module combination merged into the same stream for sending START and STOP messages inside the F8 clock stream, e.g. by hitting buttons inside Drambo which could also be MIDI mapped to MIDI controller buttons.

By modulating the Clock Generator's "Trigs/beat" knob, you could even implement a nudge function that will temporarily send more or less clock pulses to re-sync your hardware in case you haven't hit that start or stop button in time or if for some reason (high CPU load for example), a clock pulse gets lost in transit.