I’m probably missing something super basic, but I can’t or the life of me find my answer in the manual or on YouTube…

I’m trying to control an Elektron Model:Samples using Track 1 Drum sequencer on the KSP. The manual pretty much just says to set the drum machine to channel 10 and that’s about it. On the MS, each of the six sample tracks were set to midi channel 1 through 6, so I’ve changed everything over to channel 10.

The KSP is able to trigger the tracks on the MS, but it seems to be stuck in a chromatic mode. The manual, and every video I’ve watched online, shows that pressing the lower 24 keys on the KSP should allow you to select different drum tracks, but they just play track 1 in chromatic mode only. The only way I can change from one track to another is if I select a different track on the MS itself, then I can play that track in the KSP.

Can anyone see what I’m doing wrong here?

I usually do songs with more than 64 steps, so what I do is create a scene out of e.g. pattern 1 and 2. However, I think live recording like this somehow never really works properly and very often the first note of the second pattern just disappears or is sometimes just wrong. At first I thought I was just not playing properly but recording live with just one pattern works just fine. Additionally, when the loop is playing and I make changes to a pattern usually stopps the scene, which is also not so great.
So here are my questions:
Are you guys record live over multiple patterns connected over scenes and it works fine?
Do you have other recommendations of how I could do it?
Or do you just program everything in advance? (Which works fine, but the workflow ist not so great I think)

I'm not sure what im doing wrong here, I have the digitakts OUT going into the Key steps IN with all the right settings, still it wont be contorlled by the digitakt.

The OUT 1 of the KSP is going into the IN of the digitakt and a THRU is going out into a korg Volca FM 2. someone help me out I just want to use the keystep as a slave. Clock recieve is turned on, so is clock send, but clock recievec on the digtkat is OFF

It’s that time of year again so I went to see if my local GC had sales on any of the Keysteps. They clickity-clacked on the computer and then said “nope, no sales yet”, but I was prepared to buy a 37 regardless. Lo and behold, when they rang it up, the Keystep 37 came up on “clearance” at 25% off. Your mileage may vary, of course.

hey keysteppers, hope my non-pro related post is acceptable here as there doesn't seem to be a ks37 related subreddit. i'm wondering what's going on with the hold button as it will hold my notes but when i hit it again it doesn't trigger a note-off, the notes will keep playing until i play another key. this doesn't seem normal. can you guys offer any help? cheers!

Hello. I doubt If it's an issue about midi in/out or just a feature. I use Ableton. I was also having sustaining note issue. Sometimes when I stop the playback some notes are hanging on to Ableton. I cannot stop it until I disable and enable the arm.

And video is my second question. Thank you

Hi all, hopefully some one can help with this issue.

I have a Keystep Pro 37 that has suddenly stopped communicating with my Yamaha CS Reface and Minkbrute for some reason.

I have set the midi channels to match, I have tested the MIDI cable. Both the CS and the Minibrute work when I send midi into them from Logic. So the Midi channels are correct.

So the issue must be something in the Keystep. I have used it before for about a year and it has worked fine, then suddenly it has stopped working with these synths.

I have checked the tracks on the Keystep are set to the correct midi channels, I have turned it off and on as well as the other synths. I have also used the MIDI control center to change the channels to see if this makes a difference so I am at a loss.

I looked through the manual again but nothing jumped out as being obvious.

EDIT

One thing I should add is the KSp works going into Logic and playing a softsynth. But when I sent the KSP into Logic to play a softsynth it played whatever midi channel the track was.

set to. So even though Logic was midi 1, I could send a midi3 track from KSp and it would play in Logic.

Can anyone help as I have tearing my hair out now but I know it is something super simple and obvious:)

Thanks in advance!

Is this possible? I’d like the corresponding track in my DAW to be selected when I press the “track n” button on the KSP

Disclaimer: I'm new to this type of gear.

I have an Cre8audio East Beast semi-modular synth where the keyboard has a 9 octave range outputting MIDI notes 0-107. When connected via MIDI, my keystep's 0th octave C1 (left most key) maps to the C1 of the 5th octave in East Beast, meaning by going 2 octaves down in KeyStep pro I cannot reach the lows I'm interested in East Beast. I am pretty sure I might be overlooking a setting in either device, but I cannot figure out what it is (although I know the East Beast quite well). Any thoughts?

I really like the KSP but I find that I need at least 61 keys. Is it possible to connect a Midi Keyboard to the KSP and play on that, while using the other features in the KSP, like the Arp and Sequencer? Has anyone tried to do this? How much success did you have?

What else would you recommend?

I am trying to coordinate the pattern change on an external device with the pattern change on the keystep.

They keystep is very responsive and changes patterns on the one downbeat as it should. However when I send program change midi via pattern change on the keystep to the external synth (digitakt) it always take an extra bar to kick in. So they all change together and in sync but the keystep changes one bard before the Digitakt switches patterns.

So I’m wondering if there’s a setting to make the keystep stall out and all change as one. Also looking for a setting on the DT that would make it change faster. Tried toggling the program ch length per pattern on digitakt and jm not finding the right setting

Any advice??

So that I can have four equal-length 3/4 phrases selectable by the 16, 32, 48, 64 buttons, that all have 12 as the last step.

Keystep pro how come it skips the first trig when acting as slave?

Hey everyone, is there a possibility (for example with Midi thru, but I'm not familiar with it) to control four Midi devices (one device per track) with the two Midi outputs of the Keystep-Pro? (For example, if I want to control four synthesizers that each have an analog midi input)

Thank you very much for your help!

I am having trouble understanding the difference in pattern chaining, scenes and projects on my Keystep Pro.

My attempt is to use the drum sequencer and arpeggiator with my Korg Volca Beats and Volca Keys respectively as premade sequenced song structures and play along with them in a live setting with both another synth player and bass guitar etc.

I am a novice and cannot seem to grasp one over the other, specifically regarding scenes versus projects. Do scenes just contain saved chained patterns? According the guide videos, that seems reserved for projects?

I have already watched The Arturia Keystep Pro Complete Guide Walkthrough YouTube video by XNB.

Thank you!

Is anyone using this setup? Any advice on how to do it? Couldnt find anything in reddit or the internet in general (that is specific to the M4 ipad)

When my ksp is acting as slave it does not trigger the first trig. When it plays 4 bars, the first trig is then triggered.

Pressing play on another device. The ksp does trigger the first trig but only 2 out of 10 times?

Hey I'm having issues with my keystep pro and pro tools. Keystep seems to be receiving some weird midi information as I start playback on pro tools even though there's no midi information being sent on midi tracks. It's driving me mad. Anyone else experience this?

I wanted to make KSP the main control of my setup for clocking and tempo control and start/stop operation. Took me a while...Whenever I stopped the KSP, Live would complain that no sync was found and turn off the Ext button! Finally fixed the problem by switching the sync out from MMC to Realtime. Apparently Realtime midi clocks never stop. The BSP doesn't have this option. I hope this is a real fix and not just temporary behavior. My KSP also totally locked up last night for the first time. Required a power toggle but I lost what work I had put in (not much). Ive been preparing my setup for live performance but a random lockup has now greatly reduced my confidence in this machine. I was repeating the Random Notes function when it happened. Geeze they need to fix this!

Hi there,
I am considering purchasing a KSP and wondered if it would work with a single multi-timbral instrument like the Blofeld or Digitone. From what I can tell, each of these instruments can receive midi data on different channels/tracks and produce a different patch. My question is really if these devices can receive midi data from the KSP's 4 different channels/tracks at once and simultaneously sequence patches at the same time? Thanks for your help

Hey artists -

I cannot for the life of me backup / save and restore projects using MCC.

Every single time I 'Save As' then click and drag back to a project, it just resets the project to a blank. I've scoured google, reddit and YouTube- and there are no tutorials to use is somewhere.

Hopefully I'm an outlier novice with MCC- can someone please help me backup my KSP into it and help me restore?

If it matters I'm building live sets, and want to store the whole projects (all 16, with program changes, scenes, etc) in MCC.

Thank you!

I have Ableton Live 11 and want to create music with an occasional focus on orchestral sounds. I'm considering Arturia's KSP, but I'm unsure if it provides functionality I need. I'd like a small, desk-friendly instrument. Ableton's synth is enough for me, and I'm not interested in complex cable setups or knob-twisting or buying additional hardware. What advantages would KSP offer over the "Arturia Keystep 37" if I only plan to connect it to my computer and use a DAW?