#Step seq 2 how to
#Step seq 2 update

You can have as many Step Sequence clips running as you want, on multiple tracks or the same track. There are several significant differences between this new view and the other editing views available in Sonar, quite aside from the interface (for example, the Step Sequencer inherently creates a MIDI Groove clip, and all notes must be quantised to a grid), but the concept is the same. Sonar's Step Sequencer represents a particular way to view, create and edit MIDI clips.

The repetitive, cyclic nature of patterns generated by step sequencing lent itself well to this type of music. For example, with a 16-step sequencer, if you programmed a trigger to occur on the 1st, 5th, 9th and 13th steps, and sent this to the kick drum, you'd have a 'four on the floor' kick-drum beat.īut step sequencing is not only limited to use with drums one of its most famous applications was the step sequencer in the Roland TB303 Bassline, the early 'groovebox' that powered 'acid' dance music. Step-sequencing methods were later applied to drum machines, and in the case of something like Roland's TR808, 16 steps were available, where each step could contain one or more triggers for triggering drum-sound events at that particular step. Sequencer steps usually generated a trigger as well as a voltage, suitable for triggering an envelope or other modulation source. If you patched this voltage output to an oscillator's control-voltage (CV) input, you could create short melodies. Typically having eight to 16 steps, these hardware devices stepped through a sequence of control voltages that went to an output. The step sequencer's origins lie in the days of analogue synthesis. starting with Sonar 7's shiny new Step Sequencer.

#Step seq 2 how to

Rather than going over those features again in this column, we're going to home in on how to apply some of them. Note the clip generated by the Step Sequencer in track 2, and the controller strip along the bottom of the Step Sequencer window.Sonar 7 is out, as I'm sure you all know, and if you read last month's review you'll be familiar with the new features that have been added. The Step Sequencer is driving Sonar's Session Drummer 2 drum module. We investigate its features and suggest some ways to make the most of it.

#Step seq 2 update

One of the new features added in the Sonar 7 update is a very flexible step sequencer.