I kind of miss the "vibe" of sitting down at a good step sequencer as an alternative environment to writing a track. I haven't sat down with one seriously tho since I did a stint with Numerology on Mac over a decade ago now.
I love the step sequencers in some drum synth plugins and use them all the time still. Tremor finds it's way in basically most of my tracks, and I do all of it's programing in it's excellent step sequencer.
Recently I went seeking out and demoing a bunch of sequencer plug-ins, and I really liked the HY stuff. The thing about them tho, is as a Bitwig user, I kind of came to the conclusion while demoing them that most of this stuff just isn't as good as what I can do natively in Bitwig, so I ended up purchasing none of them. But I do like the "vibe" of it all being neatly tied in one window that only a proper dedicated step sequencer plugin can provide. My favorite that I tried out of the HY stuff was the RPE2, but again trying that out just gave me the motivation to make a much more powerful multi-track Euclidian sequencer setup in Bitwig natively with it's Euclidian repeaters.
To me step sequencers are all about presenting a "vibe" to work with that sticks you outside of the live playing or piano roll inputting state of mind, and that HY stuff offers alot of different flavors of sequencing to choose from, and they have some proper modulation options to keep your sequences evolving.
The rest of the stuff I tried out was too limited. They were good, had a vibe, but they were all basically monophonic, single instrument acid style step sequencers. The HY stuff was definitely a step above IMO. I'd say if you weren't using Bitwig, or don't have access to something wonderful like I remember Numerology being (I don't have access to it anymore as I switched to Windows), that HY stuff seemed top notch.
I emailed Bitwig and showed them a bunch of the sequencers I made and basically said "Wouldn't it be great if this were all tied together in a single window as a native device, instead of all patched together in Note FX layers the user had to navigate to and click on etc" and they seemed very open to the idea. Everything is already there, it just needs a dedicated GUI and UX to tie it together in the way these sequencer plugins do. There are already a few Bitwig devices that operate off of this principle (Polymer and Sweep are actually just Grid patches packaged into a GUI/UX as a device.)
Cheers
I love the step sequencers in some drum synth plugins and use them all the time still. Tremor finds it's way in basically most of my tracks, and I do all of it's programing in it's excellent step sequencer.
Recently I went seeking out and demoing a bunch of sequencer plug-ins, and I really liked the HY stuff. The thing about them tho, is as a Bitwig user, I kind of came to the conclusion while demoing them that most of this stuff just isn't as good as what I can do natively in Bitwig, so I ended up purchasing none of them. But I do like the "vibe" of it all being neatly tied in one window that only a proper dedicated step sequencer plugin can provide. My favorite that I tried out of the HY stuff was the RPE2, but again trying that out just gave me the motivation to make a much more powerful multi-track Euclidian sequencer setup in Bitwig natively with it's Euclidian repeaters.
To me step sequencers are all about presenting a "vibe" to work with that sticks you outside of the live playing or piano roll inputting state of mind, and that HY stuff offers alot of different flavors of sequencing to choose from, and they have some proper modulation options to keep your sequences evolving.
The rest of the stuff I tried out was too limited. They were good, had a vibe, but they were all basically monophonic, single instrument acid style step sequencers. The HY stuff was definitely a step above IMO. I'd say if you weren't using Bitwig, or don't have access to something wonderful like I remember Numerology being (I don't have access to it anymore as I switched to Windows), that HY stuff seemed top notch.
I emailed Bitwig and showed them a bunch of the sequencers I made and basically said "Wouldn't it be great if this were all tied together in a single window as a native device, instead of all patched together in Note FX layers the user had to navigate to and click on etc" and they seemed very open to the idea. Everything is already there, it just needs a dedicated GUI and UX to tie it together in the way these sequencer plugins do. There are already a few Bitwig devices that operate off of this principle (Polymer and Sweep are actually just Grid patches packaged into a GUI/UX as a device.)
Cheers
Statistics: Posted by Funk Dracula — Mon Jun 17, 2024 12:23 am