Playbeat 4 by audiomodern as "midi-slave"?

[blommberg]

I found an older post on this vsti but my question wasn't answered, so... new start
The old theme and the themes on YT always seem to deal with using playbeat as a trigger for other drum-vsti. I do not really understand why to do so as the sound of playbeat seems perfect to me.
So what I want to do and how I normally work (at the moment with mdrummer, but it crashes too often):

• Let the vsti make a good groove

• export the midi (to REAPER)

• triggering the vsti with the created midi (vsti is slave / a simple drum player now)

• modifi the midi in my DAW as I like it.

Is that possible with playbeat 4?
(The test version doesn't alloow this)

[Dirtgrain]

Near the upper left, there is a tiny "Play" icon and a tiny keyboard icon. Clicking the keyboard icon puts Playbeat into the mode of reacting to incoming MIDI (and not using the internal sequencer).

I just tried it to give it a shot. It works; however, the MIDI export feature is broken on my version of Playbeat 4 (will check for updates), as it is not exporting the pattern from the sequencer--instead exporting (via click and drag and also via saving to a folder) a MIDI clip with a bunch of MIDI notes of the same note value, and maybe a couple interspersed at a higher note value--but no correlation to the MIDI note values that would play sounds in Playbeat--it's all off.

[Dirtgrain]

Installed Playbeat 4.1 and MIDI export is still malfunctioning.

[kraster]

You need to set the fixed note output in the midi out settings to whatever notes you want to trigger by midi otherwise it defaults to C3 for every midi note.

One thing to keep in mind is that Playbeat isn't really designed to trigger itself via midi notes derived from its sequencer since the sequencer has things like pitch which would either need a dedicated midi channel or have to be done by pitch bend.

If you want to trigger other things like Battery etc. then use the fixed note output and map them to the receivers corresponding notes. You can save configurations to be reused.

[blommberg]

You need to set the fixed note output in the midi out settings to whatever notes you want to trigger by midi otherwise it defaults to C3 for every midi note.

Ok, I'll try that these days (hope it works on the test version).

One thing to keep in mind is that Playbeat isn't really designed to trigger itself via midi notes derived from its sequencer since the sequencer has things like pitch...

Mhh. At the moment I cannot imagine how to use it that way with a consistent result / different reproducable patterns for verse, bridge,...

[Cuauhtli]

Maybe you can try recording the midi in the daw (for the exporting part anyway)?

Like with Pigments, in Reaper you can have the track record midi out (or something like that) and record Pigments's sequencer notes - handy when using the generative sequencer option.

[blommberg]

You need to set the fixed note output in the midi out settings to whatever notes you want to trigger by midi otherwise it defaults to C3 for every midi note.

Ok, I'll try that these days (hope it works on the test version).

One thing to keep in mind is that Playbeat isn't really designed to trigger itself via midi notes derived from its sequencer since the sequencer has things like pitch...

Mhh. At the moment I cannot imagine how to use it that way with a consistent result / different reproducable patterns for verse, bridge,...

So I managed to export midi. It was partly wrong and 2 octaves too high, but I could trigger playbeat as "slave". And yes, it was absolutely not the same as original. Missing pitch as u said.

[kraster]

Mhh. At the moment I cannot imagine how to use it that way with a consistent result / different reproducable patterns for verse, bridge,...

The best way to use Playbeat self contained is to trigger its own patterns via midi.