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graywolf2004 · Post by **graywolf2004** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 7:51 am

ThrashJazzAssassin wrote:Is there a way to make BlueARP behave like a 'classic' arpeggiator? So the sequence length is determined by the number of notes held.
e.g.
2 notes
1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-etc
3 notes
1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-etc
4 notes
1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-etc

No and no plans for it, because BlueARP is a pattern arpeggiator. You can mimick classic arp behaviour with pattern chains, but why?
Any VST classic arp will do the job, like "SimpArp" by WOK

graywolf2004 · Post by **graywolf2004** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 10:35 am

.jon wrote:I bought a super cheap Korg Nanocontrol second hand, and today I linked the 8 faders to Scale Step, knobs to Step Type and a row of buttons to toggle velocity between 0 and 127- instant, awesome hardware-style step sequencer!

Great, thanks for the idea

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 2:54 pm

graywolf2004 wrote:
ThrashJazzAssassin wrote:Is there a way to make BlueARP behave like a 'classic' arpeggiator? So the sequence length is determined by the number of notes held.
e.g.
2 notes
1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-etc
3 notes
1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-etc
4 notes
1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-etc
No and no plans for it, because BlueARP is a pattern arpeggiator. You can mimick classic arp behaviour with pattern chains, but why?
Any VST classic arp will do the job, like "SimpArp" by WOK

Why? Because regular classic arps are missing plenty of useful functionality.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 2:59 pm

Tbh, i'm very happy that BlueARP isn't a classic arpeggiator, but rather a pattern arpeggiator/sequencer. That workflow is much more my thing than the one of a classic arpeggiator, which rather gets you random, experimental results, than planned ones.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 3:12 pm

chk071 wrote:Tbh, i'm very happy that BlueARP isn't a classic arpeggiator, but rather a pattern arpeggiator/sequencer. That workflow is much more my thing than the one of a classic arpeggiator, which rather gets you random, experimental results, than planned ones.

I also like the pattern arpeggiator functionality... but of course both options could happily exist side by side.

Maybe a classic arp gets you random experimental results, but that is not the result for everyone. Some people know how to play it

Anyway, since the Dev says it will never be there, no point to talk about it further... so the hunt continues!

graywolf2004 · Post by **graywolf2004** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 5:00 am

pdxindy wrote:
chk071 wrote:Tbh, i'm very happy that BlueARP isn't a classic arpeggiator, but rather a pattern arpeggiator/sequencer. That workflow is much more my thing than the one of a classic arpeggiator, which rather gets you random, experimental results, than planned ones.
I also like the pattern arpeggiator functionality... but of course both options could happily exist side by side.

Maybe a classic arp gets you random experimental results, but that is not the result for everyone. Some people know how to play it

Anyway, since the Dev says it will never be there, no point to talk about it further... so the hunt continues!

As I said before, try SimpArp by WOK. It is a great classic arp and also free.
BlueARP was designed as a pattern arp and I dont see any reason to repeat the stuff other arps are doing better.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 5:55 am

graywolf2004 wrote:
pdxindy wrote:
Anyway, since the Dev says it will never be there, no point to talk about it further... so the hunt continues!
As I said before, try SimpArp by WOK. It is a great classic arp and also free.
BlueARP was designed as a pattern arp and I dont see any reason to repeat the stuff other arps are doing better.

I'm not trying to convince you to change your fine plugin... but the usual simple arps are missing many useful features... I already have a number of those sorts of simple arps. There is a lot of interesting functionality that is not available. For example a flam control.

Again, I'm not trying to convince you of anything... however there is plenty that is not currently available and lots of room for creative tools that are not repetitions of standard stuff.

electro · Post by **electro** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 2:40 pm

graywolf2004 wrote: As I said before, try SimpArp by WOK. It is a great classic arp and also free.
BlueARP was designed as a pattern arp and I dont see any reason to repeat the stuff other arps are doing better.

32bit only

xtreme sounds · Post by **xtreme sounds** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 4:25 pm

Hi I really want to use Blue Arp to the full. Can someone share a bunch of presets for this?

electro · Post by **electro** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 4:31 pm

Arpegiators need presets?

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 4:36 pm

electro wrote:
graywolf2004 wrote: As I said before, try SimpArp by WOK. It is a great classic arp and also free.
BlueARP was designed as a pattern arp and I dont see any reason to repeat the stuff other arps are doing better.
32bit only

Every sequencer has a built-in arp these days, which should be capable of what a simple SE plugin does, and more. At least the ones i tried do.

Opax · Post by **Opax** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 4:54 pm

melodyz wrote:Hi I really want to use Blue Arp to the full. Can someone share a bunch of presets for this?

Check out page 73 of this thread.

I hope to release more patches by the end of this week.

ThrashJazzAssassin · Post by **ThrashJazzAssassin** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 6:37 pm

One thing I love about BlueARP (missing from SimpArp) is when gate is 100% and only one note is being played, the note is not re-triggered because no note on/off's are sent.

Nielzie · Post by **Nielzie** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 6:44 pm

Anyone tried this in energyXT 3? Somehow the timing seems to be slightly off/wonky to me, compared to the other arp plugins I use

neverbeeninariot · Post by **neverbeeninariot** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 1:46 pm

The BlueARP forum thread is 76 pages; tl;dr - so apologies if this has been asked before..

BlueARP is an amazing arpeggiator, thanks graywolf for making this

Given that BlueARP is very step-sequencer based, have you ever considered giving it the ability to generate MIDI notes ? Most of the time I am only running one midi note into it to trigger sequences so having the ability to run as a step-sequencer makes sense to me

Cheers
N

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