oozitron

Wow cool! I was just playing with putting 32 Skips in a 128 step track to make it six measures long but that creates a massive delay... I will test this asap! Andrew

Browsing through the posts, I've seen several people who have run into the same problem I'm trying to solve. I use Song/Phrase mode with patterns set up for "Intro", "Verse 1&2", "Chorus", "Solo", "Verse 3", etc for live performance. It works great for things like the Solo section where you can just let it loop as long as you want before going back to another Verse. In the last measure of each section I choose a new Phrase if I want to go to another Section. The problem I have is when the different sections are not the same length. Say the Chorus is 5 measures long and all the other Sections (Intro, Verses, etc) are all 4 measures long. During the 5th measure of the Chorus I press the Phrase button to go to the Verse and it goes to the 2nd measure of the Verse instead of the 1st measure. I set all 16 of the tracks to the same length, same divider. I've played with various combination of the Options (#1-3 & 5) and still can't figure out a way to make it work. Option 1 = 16 steps, Option 2 = 16 steps, Option 3 enabled, Option 5 disabled (this works if all the tracks/patterns are the same length) Should this be possible? Or do I need a different sequencer for this band?

I found a "pulse stretcher" circuit on the MFOS page, but I don't know what res/cap values would be correct and I don't have a scope :-( Any suggestions on the value for those two components so a 4ms trigger would result? Andrew

I am building a tr-606 sound module that requires 4ms triggers, but of course I want to trigger it from my MIDIBox (V4) sequencer. Is there some way to adjust the trigger length of the DOUT via configuration? Or has anyone built a circuit to extend the triggers to 4ms (with CD4016 chips) that they could share? thanks! Andrew

I would like to have the F1~ F4 buttons jump me to the Events, Direction, Divider & Length screens (directly with just a single button press, instead of pressing MENU + GP buttons) I edited the HWConfig file (see BOLDFACED below), saved and restarted, but the F buttons now do nothing. Is it possible to do what I want? If so what am I doing wrong? thanks for any help, Andrew # Following button functions are usually assigned to Fx # buttons, or to dedicated (labeled) buttons # In Wilba's frontpanel layout: # F1 is located at SR M3 Pin 3 # F2 is located at SR M2 Pin 2 # F3 is located at SR M2 Pin 3 # F4 is located at SR M1 Pin 2 # and there are dedicated buttons for Copy/Paste/Clear/Utility/StepView # SR Pin EVENTS M3 3 DIRECTION M2 2 DIVIDER M2 3 LENGTH M1 2

I want to use my MIDIBox Seq as a way to play four monosynths (using CV/Gate) as a polysynth from a MIDI keyboard. The manual says this can be done with the FX Duplicate but I have had no success after hours and hours of trial & error. I have G1T1 set to AOUT/1, G1T2 set to AOUT/2, G1T3 set to AOUT/3 and G1T4 set to AOUT/4. If I put notes into those four tracks they play perfectly as they should. But when I try to route live MIDI notes in, I never get the monosynths playing the different notes. I am running ver 4.092 thanks for any help! Andrew

Yeah, the Jam mode blew me away when I finally started playing with it! I do have a question about it though: sometimes when I press the CLEAR button it instantly clears the entire Track, but other times it seems to just erase notes that are played while the button is held (so if I only held down the CLEAR button during steps 2~9, any notes on steps 1 and 10~16 would not be erased) Why is that? Is there something that chooses which way it works, or am I confused...? Oozitron (aka Andrew Scheidler)

Did some posts disappear? I posted a suggestion (a "hold" button for indefinitely repeating a step in a Song) but now it's gone (?) And the two replies of others who liked it :-) Drew EDIT: just found it... I must have been in the "front panel" thread when I wrote it

The MIDIBOX Seq just keeps getting better and better :-) An idea to consider: In Song mode, could a button (one with an LED indicator such as All or Fast) be made to "repeat the current song step indefinitely" while it's ON? Then when it's turned OFF, the Song Step would finish and proceed to the next Song Step. This would give you a little interactivity & flexibility during Songs. A Song Step could play for an extended time for a solo or break. Would be very useful during live performance. thanks! Andrew

Is there a way to move all notes in a track forward or backward one step? Some sequencers have a "shift" or "rotate" function that move 1>2, 2>3, 3>4, etc. Or a way to insert a blank step 1, which would move all existing steps back...? Hopefully there's something like this already and I've just missed it :-) Drew

Wow that was fast, and my initial testing (with Moog Prodigy) has it working perfectly :-D I will do some further experimentation over the next few days. HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY, JOY JOY JOY !!! Andrew

I know I brought this up last spring, but I am now heavily using my old synths and modular with my V4/AOUT and (for me at least) the ability to turn on/off the CV "slide" (on the CV Config page) with the "slide" trigger would be the most useful new feature I can imagine. The "fingered portamento" + Slide Trigger (using MIDI synths) is wonderful, but my old Moog, Roland and modular want this feature too :-D Just curious to know if it might happen someday. It would be an logical and elegant solution to controlling glide; a dream come true. Andrew

Would it be too expensive if it was limited to just the CH/OH instruments on a Drum track? The "enhanced" versions of my idea are interesting, but I'd be totally happy with just the "simple" version :-) Andrew

Request for a Roland TR-909 feature: On many drum machines, you can enter 16 Closed HiHat (CH) notes, then switch to Open HiHat (OH) and add a few notes. When the pattern plays, every step that has both a CH *and* an OH note will only play the OH. And if you remove a OH note, the CH note is still there; the CH notes aren't removed, just temporarily "over-ride muted". This makes pattern-building / experimenting / jamming much easier. Hope that makes sense... LOVE MY MIDIBOX SEQ V4!!!! Andrew

Can someone point me to documentation (or explain) about the BankStick? I've built a Seq V4 (with the STM32F4 core) and I thought everything was being stored on the SD card, but then find that on the Pattern screen there are 64 Patterns but each one has three additional "versions" that are stored on the BankStick that you can get to by turning the #3, #7, #11 and #15 encoder? Also, is there a way to disable those #3, #7, #11 and #15 encoders on the Pattern screen so I can't accidently change to a BankStick pattern (I go to turn the #4 encoder to change a pattern but mistakenly grab and turn the #3 instead)? I am fine with 64 Patterns. Any help is greatly appreciated :-) Confused Drew

CANCEL THAT QUESTION! Those are "dummy values"... found that in a different thread :o) Drew

When scrolling through the values for Nth1 or Nth2, the choices are 2, 3, ... 15, 16, then the Mute, Play, etc. What are those first 2~16 values for? They are not mentioned in the manual and I can't make then do anything...? (also, the ??1, ??2, ??3, etc choices are not mentioned in the manual either) MIDIBox loving Drew :-)

I finally have my DOUT and AOUT_NG units working on my Seq V4 and my drum modules and monosynths & modular are having a blast :-) The "slide" amount for each CV in the "CV Config" page is a nice feature. Would it be possible for it to work like "fingered portamento" on many MIDI synths? Having two notes connected via a "glide" duration would turn on the slide, separated notes would make it zero. I have no idea if that might be possible... it would be really cool :-) Drew

jjonas - You are Crow and I feel like Gypsy! I never realized you could choose the layers you want in a track! I had been turning the GP knob 9 to scroll through the layers, thinking that those were the only parameter layers that were available. I had never touched the GP knob 10. Thank you for enlightening me! (Push the button Frank...) Drew

I finally quit playing with my V4 and updated the firmware from V87 to V90 Things work fine, but new features seem to be missing. (can't fine the "Nth" parameter, for example) Do I need to load 87, 88, 89 and then 90? Or can I just go from 87 to 90? When I push EXIT it shows that I am running V4.090 Drew (mystified)

I run +/- 15 modular, and I thought (somewhere here on the site) that I read that +/- 15 volts will work fine with the AOUT board. Is that true? Should I adjust any of the resistor values for 15 volt use? Drew

Wow, I was just looking for a way to boost the trigger outs (for my drum modules) as I am building the CV breakout unit for my Sequencer V4. Several of my drum modules need about 5 volts to fire them off. The UDN2981 looks like the perfect way to do this. Since I am not using any of the triggers for LEDs, can I just replace the 220R resistors with the UDN2981 chip? (and add power and ground connections of course) Are the 220R resistors even necessary if I'm triggering drum modules (or EGs, or advancing step sequencers, etc) ? Drew (thanks for sharing the UDN chip idea Tashikoma!)

Before I built my V4, I was frustrated with the available videos. None of them really gave me a feel for how things worked and how data looked on the displays. So I made my first one today. Nothing new for people here, but might be good for people considering a MIDIBox sequencer. Hopefully I can get some more made soon :smile: https://youtu.be/7EhMlsX6DIc Drew

Sounds fine to me :-) Drew

Woo Hoo :rofl: Even if it was just the "Intensity" parameter, that would be enough. What I've been doing is setting all my tracks to "Shuffle" and Intensity=0. Then while playing I increase the Intensity (for All Tracks). But of course then I change a Pattern and things get messy. Sometimes I hear tracks (probably all sampled loops by lazy "DJ-Producer" types) where some parts are Shuffled and other aren't and it makes my head hurt... almost as bad as guitar players who can't tune their strings... I LOVE LOVE LOVE my Seq4 Thanks Thorston :smile: