after watching all of your Five12 tutorial videos I was sold and ordered my Vector Sequencer today! I just love the series.. very detailed and as a graduated music student I love the music theory touch your brought in here and there. To my taste that could have been even more.. but then that's just me. Perfect either way.. thank you!
Great series of videos! Might be making me finally pull the trigger on a Vector. Quick q - how is you clock piped around the system? I saw in other videos you have Pam's and now see a Metron. Is the Vector the main clock? How stable is it in driving Pam's as a follower module?
Hi man! I'm looking for a new eurorack sequencer (I'm selling my Pyramid to go full modular) and is inevitable to find your videos when looking the the Vector Sequencer. You make things incredibly clear. Now, I haven't decided yet what sequencer to get. Vector wasn't even on my radar a few days back. And I still don't know if I should consider it because I'm getting a Sinfonion, which means I wouldn't really need the quantization from the Vector. Still, it looks very nice. I've seen you have (or had) different sequencers, like the Metron, the FLXS1 and the Hermod. Would you consider the Vector the one you like the most? I'm mostly into generative music and one thing I liked is the hability to set a chance per step for effects. But is it only possible for just one effect? And can I make other things change "automatically", like some way to automatize evolution?
Vector vs other sequencers: The other ones had their strengths. Hermod was great for recording and replaying external MIDI. Vector can currently only record MIDI pitches, it doesn't quantized time. If you, eg. sequence in a DAW and want to capture that, Hermod is a great pick. Metron is 16 trigger sequencer, no CV so I dont consider it the same. Metron paired with the Vectir expander actually allows you to sequence the triggers/gates on Metron and the pitch/velocity/subseq on Vector. I know other Vector users have both Metron and Vectir as well. I had an FLXS1 previously too, and yeah, I think the Vector is a much better interface. FLXS1 does cool stuffs and the arp per step thing which Vector doesn't, but otherwise Vector is hands down better.
Regarding chance and evolve: yeah 1 chance OP per step. Another thing: I haven't done a video on it yet, but with MIDI output you can send multiple parts to the same MIDI port. So if you get a MIDI to CV conversation module, you can overlap multiple parts. Imagine you have a part where every other step is muted. You could merge that with a second part where the inverse steps were muted. Thus if you transpose the second part or modify it with CV it's only changing perceivable half the sequence. Its weird to explain over text, I should make a video about it...
I should also mention, I was considering a Sinfonion as well. Sinfonion to me is about having live/playable access to pitch. It does have the chord sequencer, but otherwise requires an external CV source for the other 4 channels. If you have the space and $$ both could compliment each other.
@@ferrycollider Hermod seems very nice, but that tiny screen is a real PITA. I've always seen Metron as some kind of drums sequencer. But WMD is releasing Voltera, which I think will drastically change Metron. Very expensive expender, though. Have you ever tested Eloquencer, Performer or even Nerdseq?
@@ferrycollider I don't know if I understoon but you're saying that it would be possible to create variations of a part to make it "more generative", right? About that, is it possible to create more then one part per output?
after watching all of your Five12 tutorial videos I was sold and ordered my Vector Sequencer today! I just love the series.. very detailed and as a graduated music student I love the music theory touch your brought in here and there. To my taste that could have been even more.. but then that's just me. Perfect either way.. thank you!
Great tutorial. I felt in love with the Five12 Vector Sequencer.
Great series of videos! Might be making me finally pull the trigger on a Vector.
Quick q - how is you clock piped around the system? I saw in other videos you have Pam's and now see a Metron. Is the Vector the main clock? How stable is it in driving Pam's as a follower module?
more videos! :)
Hi man!
I'm looking for a new eurorack sequencer (I'm selling my Pyramid to go full modular) and is inevitable to find your videos when looking the the Vector Sequencer. You make things incredibly clear.
Now, I haven't decided yet what sequencer to get. Vector wasn't even on my radar a few days back. And I still don't know if I should consider it because I'm getting a Sinfonion, which means I wouldn't really need the quantization from the Vector. Still, it looks very nice.
I've seen you have (or had) different sequencers, like the Metron, the FLXS1 and the Hermod. Would you consider the Vector the one you like the most?
I'm mostly into generative music and one thing I liked is the hability to set a chance per step for effects. But is it only possible for just one effect? And can I make other things change "automatically", like some way to automatize evolution?
Vector vs other sequencers: The other ones had their strengths. Hermod was great for recording and replaying external MIDI. Vector can currently only record MIDI pitches, it doesn't quantized time. If you, eg. sequence in a DAW and want to capture that, Hermod is a great pick.
Metron is 16 trigger sequencer, no CV so I dont consider it the same. Metron paired with the Vectir expander actually allows you to sequence the triggers/gates on Metron and the pitch/velocity/subseq on Vector. I know other Vector users have both Metron and Vectir as well.
I had an FLXS1 previously too, and yeah, I think the Vector is a much better interface. FLXS1 does cool stuffs and the arp per step thing which Vector doesn't, but otherwise Vector is hands down better.
Regarding chance and evolve: yeah 1 chance OP per step. Another thing: I haven't done a video on it yet, but with MIDI output you can send multiple parts to the same MIDI port. So if you get a MIDI to CV conversation module, you can overlap multiple parts. Imagine you have a part where every other step is muted. You could merge that with a second part where the inverse steps were muted. Thus if you transpose the second part or modify it with CV it's only changing perceivable half the sequence. Its weird to explain over text, I should make a video about it...
I should also mention, I was considering a Sinfonion as well. Sinfonion to me is about having live/playable access to pitch. It does have the chord sequencer, but otherwise requires an external CV source for the other 4 channels. If you have the space and $$ both could compliment each other.
@@ferrycollider Hermod seems very nice, but that tiny screen is a real PITA.
I've always seen Metron as some kind of drums sequencer. But WMD is releasing Voltera, which I think will drastically change Metron. Very expensive expender, though.
Have you ever tested Eloquencer, Performer or even Nerdseq?
@@ferrycollider I don't know if I understoon but you're saying that it would be possible to create variations of a part to make it "more generative", right?
About that, is it possible to create more then one part per output?
Very nice!