STEPIC - is there any other Sequencers which might give you something more? Riffer?

[pdxindy]

Hello, no demo for Stepic? Only 30 day refund policy?

Thanks,
Mario

You won't want to return it.

Not that I wanted to return it... but I found it too heady and not particularly fun to use.

This is the ONE you want!
OXI ONE MKII

Naa... My Reliq should be here in the next month or so.

https://www.reliq-instruments.com/

[sandandpaint]

Polyllop is very good but all the ones mentioned here have their virtues. Riffer is heavily underrated. Stepic is a bit tedious to program for me but if it was the main one you used them I am sure you could get quick at it.

[Wanterkeelt]

There's also Waymaker now from Aqeel Aadam. It's a bit like a modular sequencer in VST. Really powerful.

[cake builder]

Stochas is worth a look. It does some cool things and you can send MIDI out to different channels.

[martinjuenke]

I recommend HY-Plugins and Stepic.

[vitocorleone123]

Stepic and Harmony Bloom.
Done

(Watch the video series on Stepic - it’s worth it)

[swilow11]

Anyone find Stepic quite CPU heavy? I hadn't used it for a while but loaded it up yesterday and got a nice sequence feeding into Serum 2 and had lots of pops and clicks even though the DSP meter was pretty chill. I don't remember it being this heavy before..

[mabian]

Anyone find Stepic quite CPU heavy? I hadn't used it for a while but loaded it up yesterday and got a nice sequence feeding into Serum 2 and had lots of pops and clicks even though the DSP meter was pretty chill. I don't remember it being this heavy before..

It's definitely serum 2, not stepic... Try driving a different synth with the same sequence

[swilow11]

Anyone find Stepic quite CPU heavy? I hadn't used it for a while but loaded it up yesterday and got a nice sequence feeding into Serum 2 and had lots of pops and clicks even though the DSP meter was pretty chill. I don't remember it being this heavy before..

It's definitely serum 2, not stepic... Try driving a different synth with the same sequence

You could be right, but the patch itself was very basic and when I just used my keyboard to play it, I had no issue. I will have to test it out a bit more because I realised once again how awesome Stepic is.

The same patch played through HY-RPE, and Riffer was quite fine. But in Stepic, I had nearly every parameter randomising per step which may be causing the problem.

[Uncle E]

Stepic and Harmony Bloom.
Done

FWIW, I believe Mario worked with Audiomodern on Chordjam and Riffer.

[JO512]

One thing I find missing in Stepic is the possibility of doing slides. You can't cause consecutive notes to overlap to engage legato mode. That's pretty important for doing acid sequences and whatnot with most synths. You also can't save presets, which is pretty annoying, especially if you have some sequences set up and you decide you want to switch DAWs and use the same patch.

[stoopicus]

Seqund is... okay. In my opinion it's too lightweight. I think it's hilarious that Plugin Boutique sells a "Seqund Lite" version. The regular version isn't necessarily feature complete. Actually, Pigments' built-in sequencer is more powerful than Seqund. The entire gimmick with Seqund is that it runs two sequences simultaneously, and you set a probability switch for each step to tell Sequined which one of the two will be triggered. But, you can basically do the same thing in Pigments by setting a pitch mod option on a per step basis. It's fun, but Stepic looks way more powerful.

This is exactly my take on Seqund. It's got a great and intuitive UI and is fun to use, but it has all these weird limitations that make no sense (+/- 2 octave limit? hard limit on pattern length? Why???? etc)

Stepic is a lot more powerful, as are some of the HY options. Which makes me sad as I 100% would prefer Seqund's UI over the others, they did a nice job.

[swilow11]

One thing I find missing in Stepic is the possibility of doing slides. You can't cause consecutive notes to overlap to engage legato mode. That's pretty important for doing acid sequences and whatnot with most synths. You also can't save presets, which is pretty annoying, especially if you have some sequences set up and you decide you want to switch DAWs and use the same patch.

Yep, that has annoyed me too. Strange limitation to have. Another thing I've never rally understood is the note repeat bit. I've never had it actually do anything. The divider thing is cool for ratchety sounds but the note repeat thing isn't clear to me at all.

I probably need to spend more time with it tbh. I've owened it for a while but basically only use it to sequence melodies which I then drag into Bitwig.

Another slight complaint is how cluttered and somewhat ugly it is. I'm not easily swayed by looks, functionality is really 90% of the focus but the GUI is so busy and complex looking and doesn't exactly invite exploration. That's one thing I like about Riffer- clean, simple appearance which doesn't overwhelm one with options.

[slackhead]

One thing I find missing in Stepic is the possibility of doing slides. You can't cause consecutive notes to overlap to engage legato mode. That's pretty important for doing acid sequences and whatnot with most synths.

One work around might be to use an automation lane to switch portamento on and off.

[maxym.srpl]

Do you know it is possible in Stepic to transpose a sequence into a scale determined by the chord from the MIDI input?

So far, the only way I found is to create two sequences (ie, for major and minor), using them in transpose mode, switching between them... which is cumbersome for multiple reasons.

I'm looking for a way to play with a created sequence, not being constrained to a single scale
I can achieve something similar with BlueArp, but it is limited in other areas.