Derek has released steppa 032. This feature enables on-board handling of the Midi CC modes for sliders and voice select buttons. This was previously possible by using the awesome and extremely useful Osculator. However, we’d always planned on bringing the functionality into our own toolchain, and now we have.
steppa032.zip
Statistics: Posted by stevecooley — Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:50 pm
You may have questions. We may have answers. It’s a little minimal so far, but we have a forum available now.
http://beatseqr.com/forum/
the new new stuff is “four pattern mode” where all 4 patterns will run in a row for an effective 64 step length sequence, and being able to clear a voice sequence or a whole pattern sequence.
Here’s an early and very simple example of how you can take the midi loop transmitted from Steppa to drive some visuals. Every sound you hear in this video is doing something to the visuals. Some are obvious like making the main shape jump around and spin, and then there are some other effects that are more subtle, like the crystallize filter that appears later. The way I did this was through Quartz Composer via the midi note receiver… it’s a really cool effect!
Programmatic visuals from a midi loop from stevecooley on Vimeo.
What I like about this is that unlike a “music visualizer”, it’s not reacting to bands of the audio spectrum, it’s reacting directly to the midi loop, so there’s absolutely no question about what instrument is driving what visual element. More to come soon!
This isn’t quite ready yet, but… Check out this one-shot recording of the new 64 step length capability
We had a beatseqr user meetup at my house on friday night. 
Check out the photo!
Also, I wanted to mention that Derek and I did some great work and managed to get chase lights working while the sequencer is running. This feature will give you a sense of where you are in the sequence.
Here’s a short video on how to use beatseqr’s midi note number slider mode to access all 25 instruments in Logic Ultrabeat!
Here’s a video demo of me using Beatseqr v3 with Propellerhead Reason…. but you could use pretty much any app that accepts midi.
hey, while i have everything set up to record video demos.. here’s another one for using redrum to control Thor. I thought that was a cool trick.
