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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    2019/10/22 16:44 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide Table of Contents MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide ....................1. The basics ..........................1.1. User interface ........................1.2. Basic concepts ........................2. Basic settings ..........................2.1. Track EVENT ........................... 2.2. Track LENGTH ........................
  • Page 2 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/ Printed on 2019/10/22 16:44...

  • Page 3: Midibox Seq V4 Beginner's Guide

    2019/10/22 16:44 1/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide The Beginner's Guide is intended to cover the basic operation and concepts of the MBSEQv4 step sequencer. It does not include instructions on how to make the most out of all the features of the sequencer, or what each of the options on every menu page does, but it does give a good overview for the new user.

  • Page 4: User Interface

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 1.1. User interface The physical user interface consists of buttons, indicator leds, two LCD displays, and 17 knobs. In this guide the buttons are referred to with their names in ALL CAPS, i.e. MENU means the menu button, PLAY mean the play button etc.
  • Page 5 2019/10/22 16:44 3/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide Various options on the screen will be written between apostrophes. For example, if reference is made to the save function on the main menu, the option is written as 'Save'; if you are advised to press a button to initialise the active track, you are told to select the 'INIT' option, etc.

  • Page 6: Basic Concepts

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 1.2. Basic concepts 1.2.1. Groups, tracks, patterns and banks MBSEQv4 is organised into groups, tracks and patterns. Patterns are stored into four banks. There are four groups of tracks, and each group has four tracks, so all in all there are 16 tracks. Group 1 always holds the tracks 1–4, group 2 always holds the tracks 5–8 and, group 3 the tracks 9–12 and...

  • Page 7: Basic Settings

    2019/10/22 16:44 5/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide A pattern is a collection of musical and other data on four tracks. Each group always has one active pattern in it. Because there are four groups, you will always have four simultaneous active patterns.
  • Page 8 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start Option #11) you can disable this effect, so that initialisation inserts no notes in the track. Initialisation works for only one track at a time, even if you have several tracks selected. Only the track that's being displayed on the LCDs, the active track, will get initialised.
  • Page 9 2019/10/22 16:44 7/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide purposes. The track types are Note, Chord, CC and Drum, and each of these types has subtypes based on a combination of maximum track length, number of parameter layers and number of trigger layers.
  • Page 10 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 2.1.1.1. Note tracks In a default session, all tracks are of the same type: they are Note tracks that are 256 steps long and have four parameter layers. This kind of Note type tracks have one velocity layer (parameter layer B), one length layer (parameter layer C, for note length, not track length!), one roll layer (parameter layer D), and one note layer (parameter layer A).
  • Page 11 2019/10/22 16:44 9/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide • J–L: add9, Maj9, Maj11 • M–N: Maj13, Min • O–P: Min6, Min7 • a–c: Minad9, Min9, Min11 • d–f: Min13, Dom7, 7Sus4 • g–i: Dom9, Dom11, Dom13 • j–l: 7b5, 7#5, 7b9 •...
  • Page 12 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start details.) Note that you don't necessarily have to have an independent CC type track to send CC messages. Instead you can change one of the note layers on a “normal” Note type track into a CC parameter layer on the EVENT page.
  • Page 13 2019/10/22 16:44 11/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide 2.1.3 Track Event and Track Instrument While on the EVENT page, you can switch between two pages by pressing GPB8: Track Event, which is the default when entering the EVENT page, and Track Instrument. On the Track Instrument page, the...

  • Page 14: Track Length

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start Back on the Track Event page there is finally 'PRESETS', which can be used to save and load content and settings for tracks. Presets are not session dependent, so this is a way to move tracks and track settings between sessions.

  • Page 15: Track Divider And Tempo

    2019/10/22 16:44 13/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide Select G1T1 and go to the LENGTH page. Set the length of the track to 16 (so the display will show 16/128), then select G1T2, and set the length to 8 (so that the display will show 8/128).
  • Page 16 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start can be adjusted with GPK3 and GPK4, or alternatively with Tap Tempo by pressing GPB16 five times in a row. Alternatively, pressing & holding MENU and pressing PLAY five time can be used for the same purpose.

  • Page 17: Trigger Layers And Parameter Layers

    2019/10/22 16:44 15/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide Two cases where changing the divider/timebase value is useful are 1) fast melody tracks and 2) slow chord tracks. You might have a lead track where the default 16th notes are not enough for the melodies you want.

  • Page 18: Trigger Layers

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start By default, trigger layer selection button A selects the gate layer, B selects accent, and C brings up a page where you can select one of the eight trigger layers with a GP button. (Drum tracks have only 1–2 trigger layers, for these see section 3.3.)
  • Page 19 2019/10/22 16:44 17/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide 3.1.1. Gate Gate is the basic trigger, without which other layers (whether trigger or parameter) cannot express themselves. Gate controls whether the data in the step is going to be played or not. If gate is 'on', the contents of the step's layers will be played, and if it's 'off', it will be treated as an empty step, even if...
  • Page 20 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 3.1.4. Glide If the Glide trigger is 'on', the sequencer will trigger a glide from the note in the current step (where the glide trigger should be set 'on') into the note in the following step. This kind of glide is also called “fingered portamento”.
  • Page 21 2019/10/22 16:44 19/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide (For effects, see section 6.6.) 3.1.9. Roll gate (RollG) RollG trigger layer is used together with Roll and Roll2 parameter layers. This trigger is not assigned to any trigger layer by default. You can assign it to one of the available trigger layers on the TRIGGER page (MENU + TRIGGER), but normally you don't need it.
  • Page 22 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start The following will work: The following will work too, but it will sound exactly the same as the example above, plus it's more work: 3.2.2. Velocity At its simplest, velocity controls how loud the note in the step is to be played. Velocity values simulate the force with which you strike a piano key: the higher the value, the “harder”...
  • Page 23 2019/10/22 16:44 21/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide Note that “glide” here has a different meaning than in the trigger layer glide (section 3.1.4.). Here glide means simply that the same note is extended over several steps, which has no effect on pitch;...
  • Page 24 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 3.2.4.1. Using the RollG trigger layer You can use the trigger layer RollG together with the Roll and Roll2 parameter layers. Normally it should be enough to just set the trigger layer Gate (=the normal gate trigger, by default in trigger layer A) 'on' for a step and then, for the same step, turn a knob to enter a value in the Roll/Roll2 parameter layer.
  • Page 25 2019/10/22 16:44 23/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide 3.2.7. Pitch Pitch layer can be used to send pitch wheel events to your MIDI equipment, simulating the pitch wheel position. Value 64 (default) is the middle position, i.e. no effect. 3.2.8. Probability (Prob) Probability layer can be used to set the probability for the step to be played (0–100%).
  • Page 26 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 3.2.11. Nth1 and Nth2 Parameter layers Nth1 and Nth2 allow you to create long variant patterns which change based on mathematical rules. Nth1 will trigger the specified action the first time and then each nth bar, while Nth2 will start triggering only after n bars, and then each nth bar.
  • Page 27 2019/10/22 16:44 25/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide 3.2.12. Root The Root parameter layer allows for the selection of a root note locally. The default value is “Glb”, which means that for the selected step, the root note is the same as the global root note (set in MENU + FX →...

  • Page 28: Drum Tracks

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 3.3. Drum tracks Drum tracks are suitable for playing up to 16 drum sounds simultaneously, with each drum instrument having its own instrument layer (bass drum, snare drum, hihat, clap etc.). In addition to the instrument layers, a drum track can have either 1 or 2 parameter layers, and 1 or 2 trigger layers.
  • Page 29 2019/10/22 16:44 27/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide instrument layers (A-P) with GPK10, see the name of each drum instrument on the right, and rename it by pressing GPB9. Maximum name length is five characters. Once you have set up the drum notes and names to your liking, you probably want to save the whole thing as a preset;...

  • Page 30: Entering Notes

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 4. Entering notes There's a few ways to enter notes on the sequencer when you're on the EDIT page. The most simple option is to press a GP button to trigger Gate 'on' or 'off', and turn the knob below the step to adjust the note value.
  • Page 31 2019/10/22 16:44 29/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide The MIDI configuration page allows you set limitations to which MIDI messages get passed on to the bus. 1) Mode sets which of the two functions, Jam or T&A (Transpose & Arpeggiator), this bus is set to.
  • Page 32 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start Perhaps the most practical solution is to to reserve Bus4 for Jam, and buses 1–3 for T&A. The reason is that by default, each track is listening to Bus1 (set on the MODE page). However, each track's mode (on the MODE page) is 'Normal' by default, so the data coming through on the bus has no effect.
  • Page 33 2019/10/22 16:44 31/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide automatically returned to the Jam page. Recording works regardless of whether the sequencer is running or stopped. Most of the time recording makes practical sense only in Phrase mode, where patterns are not switching, because switching to another pattern erases all unsaved changes.
  • Page 34 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start EDIT page with the datawheel, and the cursor position is copied to the Jam page, but with Step (GPK11) you can change the cursor position while on the Jam page as well. Turning the knob takes you briefly to the EDIT page, and after a few seconds of inactivity you will be returned to the Jam...
  • Page 35 2019/10/22 16:44 33/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide The image below is a caption of four steps, where the player is live recording, aiming at steps 5 and 8. If quantize is set to 50 % (pretty aggressive), the first note will be recorded in step 5, where it was played, but the second note will be moved to step 8, even though it was played in step 7.
  • Page 36 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 4.1.5. Live Patterns The Live Patterns function allows you to effect rhythm patterns that have either been prepared earlier, or ones that are created and/or edited live. Live patterns play “on top of” the track, without overwriting anything, but the patterns can also be recorded on the track if needed.
  • Page 37 2019/10/22 16:44 35/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide playing quarter notes on the track and you effect a live pattern on any drum instrument, the “normal” track will keep playing in the backgroud normally (it won't get muted, overwritten etc.), and the live pattern is played in addition to it, fill-style.

  • Page 38: Working On The Edit Page

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 4.1.6. Miscellaneous settings The settings on the Misc. page work only with the Jam page Fwd setting 'on', and they have effect only on the forwarded notes that you play on the keyboard, not on anything that's playing in the track.
  • Page 39 2019/10/22 16:44 37/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide each step with the GP buttons. The LEDs below each step will indicate whether the trigger is 'on' or 'off' for each step. If the LED is lit, the active trigger layer for that step is 'on', and if it's unlit, the trigger is 'off'.
  • Page 40 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start parameter layer where you want to paste the individual parameter layer. Press SELECT + PASTE to copy the parameter layer into the active parameter layer. This will overwrite the active parameter layer, including its type.
  • Page 41 2019/10/22 16:44 39/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide exported with MENU + COPY. This will copy all data in the track(s), including settings, into the PRESETS folder, i.e. they're not session dependent. This means that you can have a maximum of sixteen tracks exported this way at any given time for all your sessions.
  • Page 42 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start words, the undo function works only with STM32F4 based MBSEQv4. 4.2.3. Using FAST and ALL buttons The FAST and ALL buttons are located on the left side of the frontpanel, bottom row. They both have indicator LEDs to show whether the function is 'on' or 'off'.

  • Page 43: Working With Patterns And Songs

    2019/10/22 16:44 41/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide 5. Working with patterns and songs 5.1. Saving a pattern When working with several patterns and in song mode, it is important to save often so as not to lose by accident the changes you've made to the parameter and trigger layers and other settings of the four tracks in a pattern.

  • Page 44: Phrase Mode And Song Mode

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 5.2. Phrase Mode and Song Mode In phrase mode you can build up to four active patterns (one in each group) and keep editing and testing them, alternating between manually starting and stopping the sequencer until you're happy with the result.
  • Page 45 2019/10/22 16:44 43/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide on the SONG page, the LED above the SONG button will flicker if you're in Phrase mode, and it will be solid when you're in Song mode. 5.2.1. PATTERN page Patterns can be selected on the PATTERN page, e.g. for editing and playing in phrase mode. On the page you can see the four groups, each of which has one active pattern in it, and a small velocity bar for each track.
  • Page 46 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start Pos Actn Mutes o*** oooo oooo oooo 1:A1 -:-- -:-- 4:A1 Mutes ooo* oooo oooo oooo 1:A2 -:-- -:-- -:-- 1:A3 -:-- 3:A1 4:A2 Jump Pos. A1 This song starts by muting G1's tracks 2–4. (“o” = play, “*” = mute) in song position A1. Then the actual music begins in position A2 by playing patterns 1:A1 and 4:A1, and they will play twice (because Action is set to 'x2').
  • Page 47 2019/10/22 16:44 45/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide - G.T. Set a track as Guide Track (for details of Guide Track, see section 5.5.). - UnMte. Unmute all tracks and layers. On the SONG page you can see just the numerical names of the patterns, and when your song has several patterns, it can be difficult to remember which pattern is which;...

  • Page 48: Copying Patterns

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start Position A1: the state of your mutes when you activated 'S&ToP'. Position A2: command to dump the settings in Mixer Map 1. Position A3: command to play the set of patterns that was active when you activated 'S&ToP'.

  • Page 49: Measure

    2019/10/22 16:44 47/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide somewhere else. However, if you just want to copy something within the same session (such as patterns), it's irrelevant whether you use exporting or importing to do it; the one end of either is always the current session, and if you set the other end (source or destination session) to be the current session as well, they will lead to the same outcome.
  • Page 50 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start Whether or not any track is sync'd to measure, every time you start the sequencer, it will start keeping track of the measure count. If the length of measure is set to 16 steps (UTILITY Opt., Option...

  • Page 51: Guide Track

    2019/10/22 16:44 49/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide It's also possible to sync tracks to measure manually on the MENU + MANUAL page. Pressing SELECT on this page will sync the selected tracks to measure. Tracks can be selected either with the group and track selection buttons (top left of the frontpanel) or on the Track Selection page (for details, see section 5.6.).

  • Page 52: Track Selection, Solo And Mute

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start switch them in an automated way, and you have to determine when to switch to another pattern, even if the tracks have different lengths and end at different times. Guide Track will allow you to determine which track (G1T1–G4T4) triggers the change to the next song position (or to the next loop...
  • Page 53 2019/10/22 16:44 51/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide the track selection buttons, or by using the track selection page. The mute page can be accessed by pressing the MUTE button. While on the page, you can press the GP buttons to toggle mutes for each track in any combination you like. The mutes and umutes set on this page can also be sync'd to measure in UTILITY Opt.

  • Page 54: Some Advanced Features

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 6. Some advanced features 6.1. Using a bus to control a track The MBSEQv4 has four buses that can be used to send MIDI data to other tracks. A track sending on a bus can be used to control the behaviour of another track over the bus for effecting arpeggios and transposing notes.
  • Page 55 2019/10/22 16:44 53/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide If the track mode is Transpose or Arpeggiator, and Hold is set to 'on', the sequencer will hold the last note(s) received on a 'T&A' bus from a MIDI controller (see section 4.1.1. for details). In other words, Hold will have no effect if the controlling data is coming in from a track.
  • Page 56 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start Note that the moment you switch the port setting to a bus on a track's EVENT page, the track will stop playing any synths directly, and can now do so only indirectly by controlling other tracks that have their port setting pointing to a physical port.
  • Page 57 2019/10/22 16:44 55/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide simultaneously, the earlier ones will drop out first. Hence, if you send five simultaneous notes in different note layers, the first note layer will be ignored, and if you send a chord layer chord that's more than four notes, only the last four notes of the chord will register.

  • Page 58: Force To Scale

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start Bus1. Bus1 can be set to 'Jam' or 'T&A', it makes no difference. Once the Port setting is set to 'Bus1', the CC layer options on the right LCD change to loopback CC control options, instead of normal CC options.

  • Page 59: Random Generator

    2019/10/22 16:44 57/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide If a track is Forced To Scale, the EDIT page displays the notes that the track is actually going to play, the unallowed ones having been forced into the allowed ones; the “real” notes recorded on the track will nevertheless be visible in the right LCD (top row) for the current cursor position, and they will reappear on the track when the Force To Scale setting for the track is switched 'off'.

  • Page 60: Euclidean Rhythm Generator

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start for randomisation, but in principle randomiser will work with any type of layer that's available. The Force To Scale option on the MODE page is particularly useful for randomised note layers. For details on Force To Scale, see section 6.2.

  • Page 61: Mixer Maps

    2019/10/22 16:44 59/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide pulses are divided as evenly as possible over the loop length, whether it's longer or shorter than the set track length, you can effect rhythm patterns with loops longer than the track that are not possible is the loop is shorter than, or equally long as, the track.
  • Page 62 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start simultaneously. The first two pages of a mixer map define, first, the output port on which the message for each of the 16 slots is sent, and second, the MIDI channel on which the message for each slot is sent.

  • Page 63: Appendix 1. Customising Some Button Functions

    2019/10/22 16:44 61/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide Appendix 1. Customising some button functions Function buttons F1–F4 In the root of the SD card there is a file named MBSEQ_HW.V4. This is the hardware setup file. Most of the settings there don't need changing, and are anyway beyond the scope of this manual. However, on the Wilba frontpanel there are four buttons labelled F1, F2, F3 and F4, which can be customised relatively easily (and are meant to be so).

  • Page 64: Button Behaviour (Momentary/Toggle)

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start with zeros in the SR and Pin columns (like “mute all tracks” and “unmute all tracks” above) are potential candidates for F1–F4 button functions. For example, if you want to to have a dedicated button for “mute all tracks”, you should change one of the F1–F4 button entries to contain...

  • Page 65: Appendix 2. Bookmarks

    2019/10/22 16:44 63/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide BUTTON_BEH_TRACK_SEL BUTTON_BEH_TEMPO_PRESET 0 Appendix 2. Bookmarks The Bookmarks menu is available in the main menu (press EXIT once or a few times, depending on where you are), or by pressing MENU + SELECT.

  • Page 66: Appendix 3. The Midi Router

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start +Mutes 0000000000000000 <- selected mutes, 1 = track muted, 0 = track not muted +ParLayer A <- selected parameter layer, A-P +TrgLayer A <- selected trigger layer, A-G +Instrument 1 <- selected instrument (useful only for drum tracks) +StepView 1 <- Step View mode on or off...
  • Page 67 2019/10/22 16:44 65/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide On the output side, GPK12 selects the output port where the node's input port's MIDI messages are routed to. GPK13 selects the MIDI channel which the outgoing message is sent on. The outgoing channel doesn't have to be the same as the original incoming channel, so you can e.g.

  • Page 68: Appendix 4. Mbseqv4 Cc Implementation

    Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start This lets through all messages coming in at IN1 on all channels, and directs them to OUT1 on the same channel it came in on. In other words, if the incoming message at IN1 is on channel 11, it is forwarded to OUT1 on channel 11.
  • Page 69 2019/10/22 16:44 67/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide waveform (in the track's FX menu), you select CC#16 and set the value to somewhere between 0 and o CC#1 (0x01 - Modulation Wheel) Controls the Morphing Function o CC#3 (0x03 - Scale)
  • Page 70 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 5: Rectangle 10 22: Rectangle 95 --------+-----------+---------+--------------------------------------------- 0x11/ 17| 0 - 127 | 64 | LFO Amplitude 0x00..0x3f: negative range 0x40: no amplitude 0x41..0x7f: positive range | Note: range is 0x00..0xff if edited from CS...
  • Page 71 2019/10/22 16:44 69/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide --------+-----------+---------+--------------------------------------------- 0x17/ 23| 0 - 127 | 64 | LFO Extra CC Offset (0..127) --------+-----------+---------+--------------------------------------------- 0x18/ 24| 0 - 8 6 | LFO Extra CC PPQN 0: 1 PPQN 1: 3 PPQN...
  • Page 72 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 0x22/ 34| 0 - 3 0 | Track Event Mode 0: Note 1: Chord 2: CC 3: Drum --------+-----------+---------+--------------------------------------------- 0x23/ 35| 0 - 127 | 0 | Limit Fx: Lower Note Number (0=off) 0x24/ 36|...
  • Page 73 2019/10/22 16:44 71/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide 0x29/ 41| 0 - 15 0 | Steps Replay: (0..15 = x1..x16) 0x2a/ 42| 0 - 15 0 | Steps Forward (0..15 = 1..16 steps) 0x2b/ 43| 0 - 15 0 | Steps Jump Back (0..15 = 1..16 steps)
  • Page 74 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 14: -2 Octaves 15: -1 Octave 0: +0 Octaves 1: +1 Octave 2: +2 Octaves 3: +3 Octaves 4: +4 Octaves 5: +5 Octaves 6: +6 Octaves 7: +7 Octaves --------+-----------+---------+--------------------------------------------- 0x32/ 50| 0 - 21...
  • Page 75 2019/10/22 16:44 73/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide 5: CC 6: PitchBend 7: Probability 8: Delay 9: Roll 0x39/ 57| 0 - 9 0 | Assignment for Drum Parameter Layer B --------+-----------+---------+--------------------------------------------- 0x3a/ 58| - | reserved 0x3b/ 59| -...
  • Page 76 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start Rnd1 Rnd2 16: 64d 17: 32d 18: 16d --------+-----------+---------+--------------------------------------------- 0x52/ 82| 0 - 40 15 | Initial Velocity Level: 100% 200% --------+-----------+---------+--------------------------------------------- 0x53/ 83| 0 - 40 15 | Feedback Velocity Level: 100% 200%...
  • Page 77 2019/10/22 16:44 75/76 MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide 0x56/ 86| 0 - 40 15 | Feedback Ticks (Delay): 100% 200% --------+-----------+---------+--------------------------------------------- 0x57/ 87| - | reserved --------+-----------+---------+--------------------------------------------- 0x58/ 88| 0 - 40 0 | Fx MIDI Mode bit 0..3: Behaviour...
  • Page 78 Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start 0x7f/127| --------+-----------+---------+--------------------------------------------- From: http://wiki.midibox.org/ - MIDIbox Permanent link: http://wiki.midibox.org/doku.php?id=mididocs:seq:beginners_guide:start Last update: 2018/04/30 18:00 http://wiki.midibox.org/ Printed on 2019/10/22 16:44...

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