Best software sequencer out now! Best of all, the developer is super responsive to user feedback and is actively working to make it even better. Cheers to Dash and Stepic!
For me the best sequencer ever… so intuitive and inspiring for creating never ending and never the same Berlin School sequences…. A little tricky with Logic Pro for automation learn, but it works… and the latest update allows to drag and drop the sequences to DAW and automatically create midi tracks 😍😍😍
1:58 that is why i have set the default thing on all configurations to "any device type" so that bitwig makes no assumptions on what kinda plugins i wanna use next
I bought it a while ago. I struggled a bit at the beginning as there is not much info on how it works but slowly getting its functions. Had some trouble with the modulation in reaper but now it works :) crazy plugins indeed not many like it out there
Stepic is my go to step sequencer, both for software and hardware. I use it to drive things such as the NDLR generative sequencer as well as bitwig and cherry audio devices.
Great video on an amazing tool! A small addition: for ableton users there is a Max4Live version as well which allows you to map to parameters directly using live modulation, a lot quicker than MIDI CC.
this is HOW a Microphone on RUclips SHOULD SOUND. Forget stEPIC . . . Your MIC is top notch bro 😅😅😝😝👌👌 ! Keep up the video work/reviews thou. Keep 'em coming.😇
Great video on an awesome plugin. Martin Sturzer also has some cool stEPIC videos too where he uses external hardware and shows the presets, plus some nice tricks for controlled randomness for note selection.
I think Dash is missing out on the biggest random feature of them all in Stepic - the ability to even randomize the chronological order of the sequencing of every lane individually by using the dice out to the right for that...
I love step sequencers and drum machines. One thing that drew me to FL was the Channel Rack, for this exact reason. Except now, I don't even use it lol. I sequence things externally using master clock sync, or using the Reason Rack VST3 and their sequencers/"players"
This has been on my shopping list for a while now! But I discovered a couple of things from this video that I didn't know, so thank you for that. What a comprehensive sequencer this is - just brilliant design, one of the best UIs I've ever seen. Apple should take a leaf out of Devicemeister's book and, you know... actually *make use of colours*. 😐
I’ve used Stepic for all KINDS of things, mostly for creating hundreds of hours of long evolving ambient types of music. Stepic is a sequencer, not a dance music generator. Results depend on application of tool features, not features of tool application.
For example: One of Stepic’s cool features for long slow note forms is user definable time signatures per … (channel, pattern, whatever). This lets you produce long sustained notes (imagine a 20/4 time signature) without having to sacrifice tempo resolution by doing the piece at 25bps or something. Stepic doesn’t care it just does what you tell it. It’s a very good music robot.
Does Stepic have a preset browser? Can you load and save a full patch for the entire VST, or can you only program a sequence from scratch each time Stepic is loaded on an instance by instance basis?
Wish I weren't such a thicko: I'm trying to set up these MIDI relationships in BandLab CAKEWALK. But I'm a bit clueless as to how to affect a synth (like SERUM, say) with STEPIC VST as a controller...
Hmm... can you transpose the sequences some how, but keep them in the same scale and root note? So if you select, say, C minor, you'd be able to transpose your chords and sequences but quantize into that scale. DId not see this feature in the video... or can you control this with the midi going into the Stepic?
I recently acquired stepic and have been having fun m, I mainly use fl studio but have been messing around in bitwig a little recently. You can't do any automation within fl studio which is a bummer but I am still unsure how to find exactly what #cc coresponds to what, do I need to click ping and go number by number to see if anything on the soft synth is moving around? Another thing Im not sure about is how stepic is constantly playing, It did this as well in fl studio. I am used to putting down something in the playlist and then when the playhead is over it it starts playing then. Is there a way to do something like that with stepic or should I just do automation on the volume when I want it to be audible? I figure its eating up cpu constantly playing regardless if its muted.
I couldn't resist grabbing this. Love muh midi tools! Reckon I will have a lot of fun with this one. For the price, you think they could throw in an installer tho. Pain in the neck on the mac. Here I am fucking around with the command line to get it running 🙄 not a good look. You nailed the demo. Love your work DG.
@@DashGlitch yeah bizarre. So at a root command prompt in /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/, looks something like `cp -R /Users/tjk/Downloads/StepicVST_Mac_x64/StepicVST.vst3 ./VST3/`
I use stepic in bitwig as well and for the automation part in this plugin it ping goes on well with other vst plugins such as vital but I doesn't work with bitwig its own synthersizers, anybody knows how to deal with it?
I really love Stepic, but the VST has some flaws if you want to control its parameters with a Midi controller or make use of Bitwig's modulators. And man, how cool it would be if Stepic's sequences could be transposed by incoming Midi...
Yeah, the VST is meh -- but the Max4Live version is the best sequencer out there. The ping thing works fine with third party plug-ins like Serum. Not so well (not at all?) with Bitwig devices. Even messing around, adding midi modulators and pointing them at the thing you want to control, it all seems a bit haphazard. But using the Max4Live version in Ableton is an absolute dream.
@@Kevhuman I don't use Ableton Live for quite some years now. Bitwig works just better for my stuff. Used Live since V 8 and had a lot of trouble and all the problems (stability issues, loosing projecte, problem with Max4Live, problems with 3rd party plugins and a not really helpful support) where gone in the moment I switched to Bitwig Studio. So the Max4Live version is not helpful at all to me.
this is just cthulhu without the midi loader no? this isnt ment as negative as it sounds but i think if youre happy with cthulhus interface, you can just stick with it. i actually prefer not having the steps separated by these bars.
Hi Dash, do you know if stEpic can be set to change the direction of the individual "stepper" lanes in both sequencer and automation ? (forth, back) ☺ And auto randomize the patteren sequence ?
i am missing a save to external file feature... currently the sequences are only saved with the DAW song. As this sequencer is a lot of fun to jam life with, whereby you "destroy" the sequences and patterns. This is really a pain!
At least in Ableton Live you can simply save the track (or even the current state of the plug-in), in which you set up Stepic, as a preset, so you can reuse it to your liking. I’m pretty sure a similar functionality is available in almost all modern DAWs.
@@OlafFinkbeiner Giving a nice sequence to others is indeed a completely different use case (that I’m personally not interested in). Anyway, saving the VST state as a preset at least takes the “real pain” out of your original concern. 😊
Every plugin/software company, I don't know how good it is, should be banned if it doesn't give a trial version. That's the reason I skipped the minimal audio.
If you’re referring to Riffer, they’re vastly different. I also remember logics sequencer to be terrible, unless they’ve updated it it had no randomization? Niether has per step controls
Riffer is rubbish. There's a randomization feature of sorts but it just scatters notes haphazardly across the screen. There's nothing remotely musical about it. And you can't use it to modulate your vsts. BlueARP is a more powerful and useable sequencer than Riffer and that's free. Someone upthread asks if it's like Cthulu. I like and own Cthulu, but it's not as powerful or as easy to use as Steptic. Again, you can sequence notes in anything -- you might as well just do them in your DAW as in most arp VST's. The real power of STeptic is in it's modulation abilities. You can crank out really useable melodic sequences quickly and intuitively with very little effort. It really blows all the other sequencer VST's out of the water for speed and ease of use. The thing that comes closest is Kirnu Cream which is what I was using before I shifted to STeptic. But STeptic -- in the Max4Live version -- is significantly better for my money.
@@twatmunro Riffer is rubbish, random and not musical? I disagree. I do think It's like that on the init setting. It is complicated and requires some work and patience with the settings, but after 30 mins when you have settings dialled in, you can get a load of riffs to play with.
Best software sequencer out now! Best of all, the developer is super responsive to user feedback and is actively working to make it even better. Cheers to Dash and Stepic!
Love your RUclips channel, man!
@@gen-amb Thank you so much!
The next thing i bought Dash presents in his video, was searching for a plugin like this vor a while. Thx!
For me the best sequencer ever… so intuitive and inspiring for creating never ending and never the same Berlin School sequences…. A little tricky with Logic Pro for automation learn, but it works… and the latest update allows to drag and drop the sequences to DAW and automatically create midi tracks 😍😍😍
1:58 that is why i have set the default thing on all configurations to "any device type" so that bitwig makes no assumptions on what kinda plugins i wanna use next
I bought it a while ago. I struggled a bit at the beginning as there is not much info on how it works but slowly getting its functions. Had some trouble with the modulation in reaper but now it works :) crazy plugins indeed not many like it out there
Stepic is my go to step sequencer, both for software and hardware. I use it to drive things such as the NDLR generative sequencer as well as bitwig and cherry audio devices.
Great video on an amazing tool! A small addition: for ableton users there is a Max4Live version as well which allows you to map to parameters directly using live modulation, a lot quicker than MIDI CC.
Haha, I thought I knew what I was doing with Stepic. Excellent job with this tutorial, Dash!
Sounds juicy! Thx for demo
this is HOW a Microphone on RUclips SHOULD SOUND. Forget stEPIC . . . Your MIC is top notch bro 😅😅😝😝👌👌 ! Keep up the video work/reviews thou. Keep 'em coming.😇
Thank you so much 😀
@@DashGlitchhi, my daw swing goes from zero to 100. Stepic goes from 0 to 75. How do i align stepic swing with my host daw swing ?
Great video on an awesome plugin. Martin Sturzer also has some cool stEPIC videos too where he uses external hardware and shows the presets, plus some nice tricks for controlled randomness for note selection.
omg how did i miss this , amazing !
Hah.. I've been using this on my hardware synths for a minute. Use it almost every night. Cool to see you doing a video on it
I think Dash is missing out on the biggest random feature of them all in Stepic - the ability to even randomize the chronological order of the sequencing of every lane individually by using the dice out to the right for that...
What a beast .. buying :) Great vid mate .. thanks :)
this is amazing, i hope it will be kept developed
Thanks for this, that Shift key trick is awesome 👌
I love step sequencers and drum machines. One thing that drew me to FL was the Channel Rack, for this exact reason. Except now, I don't even use it lol. I sequence things externally using master clock sync, or using the Reason Rack VST3 and their sequencers/"players"
This has been on my shopping list for a while now! But I discovered a couple of things from this video that I didn't know, so thank you for that. What a comprehensive sequencer this is - just brilliant design, one of the best UIs I've ever seen. Apple should take a leaf out of Devicemeister's book and, you know... actually *make use of colours*. 😐
I love step sequencers. Going to have to add this to my wish list. Does it overlap notes on 100% gate length to trigger a slide?
just also trying it and my MUST feature is: "multi touch" and e voila it is a multi touch capable plugin.
do you have a video using this with Vital synth? i need a tutorial like that. like for all the cool automation stuff we could do
it works the same with Vital as far as I know
The Max4Live version of stEPIC is the best sequencer I've ever used -- by a long shot.
I’ve used Stepic for all KINDS of things, mostly for creating hundreds of hours of long evolving ambient types of music. Stepic is a sequencer, not a dance music generator. Results depend on application of tool features, not features of tool application.
For example: One of Stepic’s cool features for long slow note forms is user definable time signatures per … (channel, pattern, whatever). This lets you produce long sustained notes (imagine a 20/4 time signature) without having to sacrifice tempo resolution by doing the piece at 25bps or something. Stepic doesn’t care it just does what you tell it. It’s a very good music robot.
@@gen-amb Thank you for this information. Will definitely pull the trigger now.
How does it compare with the new Seqund sequencer by 510k? I have liked Numerology and Thyses, but this looks very interesting!
Enjoyed this video. Thank you for posting.
The sounds in this video sound like they're from a Mass Effect level.
Das Effect, if you will.
Hey good to see ya mate
Does Stepic have a preset browser? Can you load and save a full patch for the entire VST, or can you only program a sequence from scratch each time Stepic is loaded on an instance by instance basis?
Wish I weren't such a thicko: I'm trying to set up these MIDI relationships in BandLab CAKEWALK. But I'm a bit clueless as to how to affect a synth (like SERUM, say) with STEPIC VST as a controller...
i would much prefer to slow the track down to 75bpm, then play the keys in. but i can see why some might like this
Anton Newcombe is doing tutorials now...
Hmm... can you transpose the sequences some how, but keep them in the same scale and root note? So if you select, say, C minor, you'd be able to transpose your chords and sequences but quantize into that scale. DId not see this feature in the video... or can you control this with the midi going into the Stepic?
Yes, each lane has arrows which allow for nudging and transposing while locked to the global scale
look also at HY-plugins.. love m.
I recently acquired stepic and have been having fun m, I mainly use fl studio but have been messing around in bitwig a little recently. You can't do any automation within fl studio which is a bummer but I am still unsure how to find exactly what #cc coresponds to what, do I need to click ping and go number by number to see if anything on the soft synth is moving around? Another thing Im not sure about is how stepic is constantly playing, It did this as well in fl studio. I am used to putting down something in the playlist and then when the playhead is over it it starts playing then. Is there a way to do something like that with stepic or should I just do automation on the volume when I want it to be audible? I figure its eating up cpu constantly playing regardless if its muted.
great review! tnx !!
The automation sequencer tab looks amazing but doesn't work on Fruity Loops daw :( Hope they will fix this.
Thank you for this video
man how do I save in stepic 1.5?
Note/chord input on individual steps using external midi keyboard?
I couldn't resist grabbing this. Love muh midi tools! Reckon I will have a lot of fun with this one. For the price, you think they could throw in an installer tho. Pain in the neck on the mac. Here I am fucking around with the command line to get it running 🙄 not a good look. You nailed the demo. Love your work DG.
Oh damn that sucks
@@DashGlitch yeah bizarre. So at a root command prompt in /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/, looks something like `cp -R /Users/tjk/Downloads/StepicVST_Mac_x64/StepicVST.vst3 ./VST3/`
I use stepic in bitwig as well and for the automation part in this plugin it ping goes on well with other vst plugins such as vital but I doesn't work with bitwig its own synthersizers, anybody knows how to deal with it?
I love Seqund..❤
Epic.
I really love Stepic, but the VST has some flaws if you want to control its parameters with a Midi controller or make use of Bitwig's modulators. And man, how cool it would be if Stepic's sequences could be transposed by incoming Midi...
Yeah, the VST is meh -- but the Max4Live version is the best sequencer out there. The ping thing works fine with third party plug-ins like Serum. Not so well (not at all?) with Bitwig devices. Even messing around, adding midi modulators and pointing them at the thing you want to control, it all seems a bit haphazard. But using the Max4Live version in Ableton is an absolute dream.
You should check out the Max sequencers and other devices by manifest audio.
@@Kevhuman I don't use Ableton Live for quite some years now. Bitwig works just better for my stuff. Used Live since V 8 and had a lot of trouble and all the problems (stability issues, loosing projecte, problem with Max4Live, problems with 3rd party plugins and a not really helpful support) where gone in the moment I switched to Bitwig Studio. So the Max4Live version is not helpful at all to me.
Is there now tie or slide function?
this is just cthulhu without the midi loader no? this isnt ment as negative as it sounds but i think if youre happy with cthulhus interface, you can just stick with it. i actually prefer not having the steps separated by these bars.
Can this be setup to sequence external hardware?
Yep, natively
Great tutorial 👏
Hi Dash, do you know if stEpic can be set to change the direction of the individual "stepper" lanes in both sequencer and automation ? (forth, back) ☺ And auto randomize the patteren sequence ?
i dont think so. Just looked for that feature... sounds like a good idea!
I just bought it. You can randomize the next pattern but to my knowledge you cannot reverse the lanes.
sick 👍
Hi
Possible to use it with chords instead of notes?
Thanks
Yes
i am missing a save to external file feature... currently the sequences are only saved with the DAW song. As this sequencer is a lot of fun to jam life with, whereby you "destroy" the sequences and patterns. This is really a pain!
At least in Ableton Live you can simply save the track (or even the current state of the plug-in), in which you set up Stepic, as a preset, so you can reuse it to your liking. I’m pretty sure a similar functionality is available in almost all modern DAWs.
@@PantaFlux i can save the state (preset) in BITWIG but i cant give it to you. AND to stress this: I like this sequencer a lot!
@@OlafFinkbeiner Giving a nice sequence to others is indeed a completely different use case (that I’m personally not interested in). Anyway, saving the VST state as a preset at least takes the “real pain” out of your original concern. 😊
now build it in the grid
An interface designer for grid devices would be so neat.
You must have missed the video in where I did something like that :D
@@DashGlitch found it
🙋🏻♂️🇲🇽
Every plugin/software company, I don't know how good it is, should be banned if it doesn't give a trial version. That's the reason I skipped the minimal audio.
Aw gee, this is for Ableton Max Live only...
I'm using it as a VST here
VST in Gig Performer and REAPER no problems.
Devicemeister offers two different variants, one for Live and one as a general VST.
Too cluttered and complicated.
Total nonsense. Logic's stock sequencer or Audiomodern blows this away for usability and UI.
Audiomodern has a step sequencer?
If you’re referring to Riffer, they’re vastly different. I also remember logics sequencer to be terrible, unless they’ve updated it it had no randomization? Niether has per step controls
Riffer is rubbish. There's a randomization feature of sorts but it just scatters notes haphazardly across the screen. There's nothing remotely musical about it. And you can't use it to modulate your vsts. BlueARP is a more powerful and useable sequencer than Riffer and that's free.
Someone upthread asks if it's like Cthulu. I like and own Cthulu, but it's not as powerful or as easy to use as Steptic. Again, you can sequence notes in anything -- you might as well just do them in your DAW as in most arp VST's. The real power of STeptic is in it's modulation abilities. You can crank out really useable melodic sequences quickly and intuitively with very little effort. It really blows all the other sequencer VST's out of the water for speed and ease of use.
The thing that comes closest is Kirnu Cream which is what I was using before I shifted to STeptic. But STeptic -- in the Max4Live version -- is significantly better for my money.
@@twatmunro Riffer is rubbish, random and not musical? I disagree. I do think It's like that on the init setting. It is complicated and requires some work and patience with the settings, but after 30 mins when you have settings dialled in, you can get a load of riffs to play with.