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Thanks! I have things on my list but its just finding the time to do them. With so many apps these days each is having to wait its turn for the updates which are coming.

The Set Lists can be accessed using the AU parameters but not via MIDI CC at the moment.

I'm not familiar with this app to be honest, and it depends on how it picks up MIDI data in the clipboard. I know it works with Helium but I really can't promise it would work on SAND.

@@PaultheMusicManthank you for your reply. I can copy and paste midi clips from audioshare to sand so it should work too. Does your app do a simple midi export too? For example to save the midi file to the Files app so it can be easily imported into sand as well? Thanks again :)

If you long press the COPY button it will allow you to perform a recording of a sequence of a specified length. It presents a dialog once complete and you can drag the file icon to the Files App which is as good as an export. However, I'm not sure how easy this is on an iPhone.

Ok. Excellent. Thank you.

ah I see needs to be classed as a chord. Clever

@@rgrandles You got it! Checkout my video on Step Recording which allows you to do this really simply.

It's like any device with a microphone attached, it could struggle with feedback dependant on levels and proximity to speakers.

@@PaultheMusicMan Thanks . I'm looking for an ipad version of the old rack or pedal harmonizers . So if feedback is the only problem , that's just the same as before . I was more concerned about the software being able to pick out the harmonies with the on stage background noise , as opposed to a quiet studio .

The idea behind the app is to take MIDI input from a single keyboard and split that into multiple layers that control up to 16 destination synths or AUv3's using the 16 MIDI outs of MIDI Layers. It is most useful inside of AUM and apart from not having MPE it is a very well equiped piece of software that can serve most people well.

Thanks for getting in touch, I wasn't aware of any previous attempts to connect with me. I wasn't aware of any issues with Strummer as it is stable in Logic Pro and AUM where I am using it all of the time. My guess is that you are using a different host app? What model of iPad are you using and which version of iOS? Is this issue happening while in use or while loading the app?

@@PaultheMusicMan well I’m using an Ipad 10th generation on the latest update and iOS. And yeah actually I run the app in Logic pro, but the problem mainly occurs since I find the soundfont capabilities of strummer to be really good, enough for me to use it for basically a majority of my soundfonts with. The problems begin mainly because I do run quite heavy soundfonts of like 300mb+, and some really heavy ones are usually the cause for the strummer breaking (which basically limit a lot of what I can do then since I can only run certain soundfonts very sparingly). Another thing that happens with like 900mb+ soundfonts is that they will often lack a lot of the dynamic layers specifically really high ones or the lower dynamics, making the soundfonts unplayable in those circumstances. It has happened to me with multiple of those heavy type of soundfonts hence why I can share about it with certainty. And this issue only happens with strummer, I have another soundfont player I got to test and that one can play all the sounds from a soundfont even if it is heavy but it comes with its own issues instead. And yeah basically when strummer crashes over and over since it gets in a sort of loop, it forces every other strummer plugin to also reset, and it really becomes frustrating to use and at some point it will have crashed so much that it resets back to steel string with all the reverb, delay, eq, and chorus settings that the steel string preset use. Which I personally wish for there be an option to set a different preset or remove that as a default to avoid dealing with having to also remove all those effect settings when opening a new strummer plugin to run another soundfont and etc.

@@Someone45356 Aha, this use of very large soundfonts may be the problem, since we use Apples own soundfont sampler behind the scenes and an AUv3 is limited to how much memory it can allocate. This is especially true if you use more than one instance of Strummer since the memory allowed for an AUv3 is shared between instances. If the errors are due to Apple's soundfont engine there may be little I can do, but I will investigate the problem and see if there are any crash logs that might point out what is causing the problem. Do you have these issues when NOT using your own soundfonts?

@ well the problem is that it would be hard for me to know since I do indeed basically just use strummer as a soundfont reader for all my various soundfonts so I imagine that the issue would not exist if I were to run the much simpler out-of-the-box presets and soundfonts given. Also yeah that’s interesting to know about the apple sampler thing, and well it definitely makes me think. The other soundfont player to test issues I used was bs-16i and that app is capable of running the really heavy soundfonts with every dynamic layer available, but its drawback is that it will begin to lag under too much pressure and it is reasonable surely. Meanwhile strummer acts differently as it won’t lag under heavy duty soundfonts, but it can and will just randomly crash out of nowhere and like I mentioned it does have the issue of the dynamic layers. I do think both apps use the apple sampler but I can’t be sure, in any case its interesting the contrast and makes me wonder why one acts one way and one acts the other way.

@@Someone45356 Ok, the crash logs show a number of crashes with someone using a 9th gen iPad and iOS18.1.1. The crash is in Apples soundfont engine in a function called SmplerNote::NotifyVoiceFinished(VoiceZone Const&) which is not part of my code. This could simply be that the soundfonts are not fully supported by Apples engine or simply too big. You are on an older iPad which has less physical memory than the newer M series chips and I'm not sure if the additional memory would help.

What are you struggling with? You need to load Helium into something like AUM or alternative DAW as it wasn't intended as a standalone app. You then need to load Helium as a MIDI effect (not an audio). Helium doesn't make any sound itself, it simply records and replays MIDI data so you must route MIDI input from your MIDI keyboard into Heliums MIDI Input in order to record notes. Let me know what you are struggling with and perhaps I can point you in the right direction.

The only way to do this is to zoom out so you can see what you want to copy. Tap, hold and swipe left to right ensuring the selection box encapsulates the items you want to select. Alternatively you can range a selection on the ruler, long press on the Selection button and choose the 'Loop to Selection' option. You can then copy the selection, move the plat cursor to the destination position (by clicking in the ruler at bar 50), then picking paste from the clipboard menu.

@@PaultheMusicMan Ok, thank you for this clear explanation Paul, best regards 🏆

Sorry no, this app was not created as a DAW replacement so isn't fullly featured. You can only record one input at a time sadly.

@PaultheMusicMan thanks for the clarification! It is a bit of a pity, I really like the simplicity of the design and was hoping it could serve as a lightweight Portastudio type of thing. Any chance that this could be implemented some time in the future?

@@literarymachine There is always a possibility when I get the time, but there is another app on the store called MultiTrack DAW (Perfectly Simple Multitracking) which might be worth a look at. I haven't used it in years but it does allow multi-track recording and works great on the iPhone too.

These were indeed great days that paved the way for iOS, and as you pointed out some of my apps made their way over to the new platform. I did kind of re-invent Aurora on iOS in the form of DigiKeys but without the flashing lights. Perhaps one day I may create something more authentic!

If you take a look at my latest video on MidiStep on Step Recod it shows how to record from an external keyboard.

@ Thank you!

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by a slide option? It can do slides from one note to another if thats what you mean. I covered this in previous videos.

@@PaultheMusicMan Hi .on the latest update when entering step recording mode via the pause button while the host is stopped the mini menu is not including the slide option .it would be nice if we could have this option as well.hope it makes sense.Thanks.

@@PLASMA22280 Ok, I got you... and yes, this is something I could add in a future version.

@@PaultheMusicMan oh that's great news!Thanks!

The sampler in DigiStix records the sample as-is and cannot be EQ'd within the app itself.

Sadly, this is not a standalone app and needs to be hosted under something like AUM or Cubasis etc.

@@PaultheMusicMan ah bummer! Thanks for the quick response. Any plans to make it a standalone app?

@@realalexandergiron I can recommend an app called 'MultiTrack DAW' which you can find on the App Store. This is a very minimilistic DAW that I used to use many moons ago, but it works well on both iPad and iPhone and relatively cheap.

Thanks for the suggestions, I will seriously consider some additional options. No, its not a bug, it makes no sense for the Step Repeat settings to be active if a step has a Repeat value of 1. A value of 1 means no repeat of course.

@@PaultheMusicMan Agreed, that makes sense, but currently you get these buttons active even with repeat=1 by doing this: Slide repeat value up and back down to 1 for a step. You see the buttons are again disabled here (correct), but when you switch back to Octave they have now become enabled. I would suggest to grey out all the text inside disabled buttons. Right now these repeat buttons have some white highlight text inside them, making them not look obviously disabled.

@@EN-de1wz Yep, you are completely correct... this is misleading and will be fixed!

Another excellent step recording source is Strummer, which sends guitar voicings. 👍

@@GregoryRiker Oh yeah - excellent. And then you could send the recorded chords out to Strummer or another guitar or string app .. so many great possibilities!

That’s the way I do it - one instance of strummer as a MIDI source into MidiStep, routed to another instance of strummer as an instrument. Another strummer trick is to send block chords from MidiStep to strummer loaded as an instrument, enable chord recognition, then use strummer’s pattern players, which enable even more guitar-centric performance options.

The app doesn't support MPE as there is more than just pitch bending over 48 semitones. In MPE voices are dynamixally allocated to MIDI channels which sadly is not possible.

You can enable the Multi-Out button (under the power switch) which will cause Evolver to use seperate outputs for each band. In this mode the band effects are not applied as I assume the reason you want additional outputs is to apply your own effects.

I was speaking about midi, not audio 😉

@@j-julien Sorry mate, I missunderstood your original question. It's an interesting idea, and one I will certainly consider for a future update. I can't promise anything but I will add it to my list.

Thanks Paul 🙂

Possibly if you know all the MIDI CC numbers you need to change.

Yes, you could very easily take several field recordings and drop them onto seperate pads and map them to MIDI note ranges. The only issue is I believe there is a limit to how long a single sample can be but I don't recall if its 30s or 60s.

@ That's good to know. The longer samples can be cut up in Neon, I suppose. (On computer I used Sound Forge.) When I first started recording in 1996 I had a Roland MS-1. Something like 28 seconds for all 16 pads (two banks of 8 pads).

@@FormerBiped I was also a massive SoundForge user back in the day. I was more involved in music production back then, and not so much now. Of course the sampples can be looped and with multiple samples over various key ranges you can create texture presets if these are atmosperic sounds. You might also want to checkout WaveCloud as I think this is better suited to field recordings.

I would prefer to keep MidiStep purely a MIDI generator if I'm honest.

This is a preset called MotherShip which is in the Default bank.

@@PaultheMusicMan roger, thank you.

Apologies Paul, saw the process in Masterclass 4 after a kind soul on the Loopy Pro Forum pointed me in the right direction.

Yes, it will run in standalone mode, although it is obviously best used inside a DAW like AUM or Cubasis etc.

This is an option we discussed, although it doesn't do it at the minute.

Oh, and I could only get layer2 to display a wav if I import (ex. IPhone File app). If I choose Assign from Kit (reference) it doesn’t prompt to choose layer and just overwrites layer1 with the second wav

Same behavior in standalone. Also, on Layer Tuning page the Preview button plays the wav on later2. So it’s just a matter of how to get them playing together 🤔

Perhaps you are thinking of Neon which allows you to split wavs into slices and export them since no slicing option is available in DS2?

@@PaultheMusicMan I’m referring to DigiStix2. I slice all the time and have created lots of kits using the slice feature. I don’t have Neon, yet.

@@RapBeatRepository Can you believe I forgot I added a slice option to DS2. I will investigate when I have caught up with my emails and get back to you on that one. It does make sense that it would overwrite 2 banks but I'm guessing its not prompting for the start bank?

Have you tried using the random jump feature in the Step lane?

@@GregoryRiker Yep, but it's usually less melodic than a random walk, where it only jumps to adjacent steps. It's in ZOA for example, and it can do some nice variations. A really fancy random walk would allow for customizing how many steps a jump could be and the probability that it happens. One can wish :)

An alternate approach would be to create a chord with a palette of acceptable notes, set the chord step to RND, and the complexity to 1. This will cause a single note to be randomly selected from the chord at that step. Alternatively, select a tonic note at the step, set the chord step to RND, and complexity to 1. This will generate a random note at that step based on the current key and settings in the Random Note Settings dialog.

@@GregoryRiker Thank you, I will have to try this.

Greg Riker already has one... lol

@@PaultheMusicMan love ya Paul! god bless. where can i find?

@@kitschbreeder8546I just realised his template loads a number of default apps such as DigiStix, Chameleon and MIDI Strummer and I doubt you have all these apps. I'm not so competent with Loopy Pro as Greg Riker, and it was he who sent me the template project. If you email me I can send you the template he sent me, but on reflection it may be of limited use to you. (email - info at 4pockets dot com).

@@PaultheMusicMan thx Paul

@@PaultheMusicMan your bundles make this prospect ever more viable my guy. I plan on picking up strummer and chameleon for sure. Anything else compliment Helium that I should be aware of?

Have a wonderful XMas my friend. Ironially for anyone looking at this it does go on sale from the 25th Dec!