Extension to 32 steps or longer

Danielo

Hello OXI Team, first of all I am looking forward to the release date 🙂.

What would be really great, is an extension module (16 steps long) that you can connect to the main controller. This would give you 32 steps. Possibly several in a row with free scaling of the modules 🙂.

Have you already dealt with the modular expansion of the main controller in this respect?

Maybe you should have an additional interface for the main controller ready for this.

Many greetings from Frankfurt (Germany)

Carlos

Hi Danielo,

The extension module is a neat idea! We will definitely discuss about it.
Maybe even to choose position: on top/bottom you get another octave up/down, and after it another 16 steps. Fun!

We haven't done any design towards this solution though.

Danielo

Hi Carlos,

thank you for you feedback. It will be a game changer. There ist no Step Sequencer on the market with a modular system.

For now, I wish you every success with the release of the step sequencer. I am looking forward to hold it my hand and have a good time🙂.

Cheers

Danielo

norisounds

What about a ‘zoom in’ pad view where all the pads could be one pattern and the sequence would go from each row down? So a pattern could be maximum of 8 rows x16 steps long?

It would be great if the number of rows (pattern length) could be chosen.

Carlos

norisounds OXI One Patterns have up to 128 steps currently, there’s 8 pages of 16 steps and also up to 32 tracks.
On top of that you can use Song / Arranger mode to sequence up to 16 Patterns, that’d be up to 2048 steps per Song, not including Pattern repetitions. And of course each Pattern and track can have their length and time division.

If you mean something different I’m lost.

norisounds

Ahh ok, that is a lot of steps! Im still trying to wrap my head around the sequencer and all its funtions 😃

Im not very good at watching videos to absorb workflows so I will just have to wait and try it myself.

Getting really excited about the One!

Manuel

norisounds we’re preparing some quick guides and working hard on the manual, we’ll make it available for you guys! 😄

ck989

Hey guys - I have a question re: steps too.

I understand (and love) that there are 128 steps per sequence - I’ve been searching for a while for the right hardware sequencer that handles more than 16/32.

I have seen from videos and above that a 128 step sequence can be viewed as 8 ‘pages’ of 16 steps.

Is there a view mode in which you can see a single 128 step long sequence simultaneously on the 128 buttons, from the top left to bottom right buttons? I’m imagining a long mono sequence for example where you can view the whole thing at once without scrolling pages, and edit any of the 128 steps immediately.

Thanks!

Carlos

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ck989 This is not currently possible. Mono modo occupies a whole Sequencer slot precisely to show all the melody at sight, not the steps. You don’t have pitch feedback that way and in Mono there’s no way to change pitch other than the grid (octave with encoder is possible). But we could consider it, definitely.

SLiC

I also think that rather than producing a separate extension module just being able to ‘link’ two OXI’s to work in the way described would be very cool- maybe sell the ‘doubles’ pack on the campaign as well :-)

I wonder if could be done by Bluetooth pairing?

Carlos

To implement something like that seamlessly would take huge effort, there are a lot of things to consider, so nothing we can promise now during the campaign. It’s an interesting concept for the future though!

The best would be mirroring the two OXIs completely, so all changes are being made to both units, and you can select which pages to have visible on each unit, or automatically change on the slave oxi to the page 32.
However, I think this is a huge waste of resources. I see more useful to have two independent units on sync and affecting each other through the CC or cv in than two mirrored OXIs, but that’s just my opinion 🙂

echorose

Hi! 🙂
I made an account explicitly to voice support for the idea of allowing extended monitoring/sequencing without paging.
That’s the TL;DR, time for the long version:

As a composer of linear, classically-minded music (but with plenty of overlap into the modular, generative, & loop-based territory) who has struggled to find the right sequencer (and whose knowledge of theory goes quite a distance beyond my capacities as a pianist), this device -almost- solves every one of my problems. It’s missing the usual limitations without spiraling into being overwhelming and clumsy to use, and in many ways it seems capable of replacing piano roll or sheet music for me, with the immediacy necessary for translating thought into sound.

The only hang-up I have is that, having only 16 steps visible at a time (unless I am willing to view fewer tracks at a time) is very limiting and makes the process much less immediate, and much less capable of creating contrapuntal, complex pieces, which the multitrack sequence mode is otherwise perfect for.

This is a problem I have with every sequencer except the Polyend Seq (which struggles with pattern chaining) and the Misa 32 (which has little documentation and seems difficult to track down online). Even 32 steps feels only half-way there to me, but is close enough that I’m willing to concede. The option to buy (or DIY) additional banks of 16×8 (preferably without having to shell out for an entire additional sequencer), or to buy a 32 or 64 ×8 version of the sequencer, would absolutely remove the Polyend Seq from my wish list and be an instant pre-order from me.

I know that, in the current market, this idea may seem a bit out of step or over the top, but it would make y’all pretty much the only sequencer on the market capable of pulling in the linear, non-beatmaker types (who currently struggle our way through the clumsiness of mouse & keyboard), and would make me your #1 fan!!

PS: thanks for being one of the most active & user-facing development teams I’ve seen.

Manuel

echorose Hi. thanks for your post!

Creating 8×16 grids addons or even pairing two OXIes for this purpose would be awesome! Something interesting to work in the future.

On the other hand, implementing a 128 steps view per track could be something very doable in the short term. It’s already up in the TODO list 🙂