Would it be possible to play chords on a track but instead of the cv outs on the nerdseq itself, one can choose to use the the outs on a CV 16?

I would like to contribute the following two mappings that should be part of every sales pitch of the nerdseq and isn't documented much online.
I use an Elektron Syntakt in my liveset and wanted the nerdseq to just follow suit,
i'm sure other people would enjoy finding this here. If requested, i may leave the mapping files here later.
actually i think these mapping files should just come with any Nerdseq in the future as i was looking for this as an option elsewhere in menus

I have my Syntakt send Program Change on Channel 14, as i don't use that for anything else, so change that to whatever you need.

// This one line Points the Position Cursor on the Sequencer Page to the Sequencer Row,
// so if you want to start your Patterns manually you only need this:

MIDI TC14 PGMC > GLOB SROW

// if you add two more lines you can auto start patterns on nerdseq in sync with the syntakt if you change patterns there,
// The mapping is Syntakt Bank 1-8 Pattern 1-16 to Sequencer Row 00-7F if you need that.

MIDI TC14 PGMC > GLOB SROW
MIDI TC14 PGMC > CTRL XSH!  1RW
MIDI TC14 PGMC x TRCK TRK1 STRW

// on the one hand you forfeit access to ROw 80-FE and also, due to the nature of the Nerdseq Sequence screen
// of every odd line needing to be empty if you work pattern based and don't want a continuous arrangement running by itself,
// it makes sense to multiply the incoming program change to a variable first and multiply that by 2.

MIDI TC14 PGMC > SETV V A SRC
CALC MUL  VA=2 > GLOB SROW ----

// if a Program Change happens on Midi Channel 14, Set Variable A and make it available for use.
// calculate the multiplication of Variable A and Numeric Value 2 and send it to the Global Sequencer Row.
// Up until here you have the cursor pointing to every EVEN Sequencer Row only,
// so if you want to start tracks or rows manually these two lines are all you need.

MIDI TC14 PGMC > SETV V A SRC
CALC MUL  VA=2 > GLOB SROW ----
MIDI TC14 PGMC > CTRL XSH!  1RV
CALC MUL VA=2 X TRCK TRK1 STRW

// if a program change occurs on midi channel 14, use the control function to detect the change and execute only the next row once.
// (this is a new parameter that isn't in the manual yet)
// (if you didn't have this function, the program change would restart the sequencer 1000 times per second.)
// the last line calculates the value again (i didn't want to do 5 lines and use a second variable) and sends it to Track function Track 1 to start the sequencer Row.

if you read all of that, and wonder how i got there, i would like to leave some feedback here about
some things that weren't intuitive about getting there at all:

1. The big one for me was there is no GLOB STRW available. i understand it is redundant, if using any of the TRCK TRK1-8 STRW does the same thing,
still i wonder how it got there in that subset, probably due to the other functions like start track, stop track, jump row etc

2. Nothing prompts you to add the SRC at the end of SETV V A line, but its necessary to store the Variable so its value is available for use.
i just had the intuition to try out if i needed a second argument with the SETV function.

3. the CTRL XSH! parameter isnt explained distinctly from XSH^ and XSHv in the help line, it means "trigger once if value changes in any direction" a bit like a one shot s&h.
XSH! wasn't in the manual, but it exists in 3.01 RC. hope it stays, it works very well.

4. i was wondering why the syntax stays VA=2 if MUL makes it VA*2 but that was explained in the live help line below so it was never an issue.

i am strongly interested in any feedback you guys have if i did this right or it can be improved, simplified etc.
i was convinced from the beginning that with all this mapping stuff thomas gave us a solid tool kit to realise something like this without asking for it as a feature, but man it took some time to get there.

Dear Thomas


I have a heavy I2C / Midi driven setup with Sweet Sixteen (16n eurorack) + Gess expander (providing manual buttons - www.tesseractmodular.com/eurorack-modules/gess).

What I'm looking for is a way for Gess to be able to send SC.TR commands to ER-301, through the Nerdseq.


The traffic on my MIDI channels is often too heavy (as I have to convert a lot of I2C to midi), which causes dropouts.


My current workaround is to run a midi cable from Sweet Sixteen to Multi-IO TRS-A and 16x of these mappings:

10 MIDI TC 1 GATE > ---- ---- ---- ----
11 CALC PASS 10TH > I2C  B TR #  17 (ER-301 is triggering SC.TR on port 17)
12 CALC PASS 10TH > I2C BCVS # 17 (Disting NT is receiving ON: 0x11 0x10 0x08 0x00 / OFF: 0x11 0x10 0x08 0x00)

(with a default threshold of 512/200)


I would love to have an I2C setting mode which included Gess, or at least 24 input ports on the same address so I could mod the firmware of Sweet Sixteen myself, as it is open source.


As far as I understand the manual, the only way to have more channels being received by the Nerdseq on I2C A, is to have more physical 16n's or use I2C B, which I'm using for I2C output



Let me know if I'm clear or if there is anything I can do to help.


Best,

Simon

Is it possible to connect two F8Rs from Michigan Synth Works with i2c to a NerdSeq with Multi I/O, one to each port? In the manual on page 162 it says that it can be done with 16n faderboxes I'm assuming it's possible with F8Rs as well?

Hello,

I have microcosm hologram pedal I'd like to control through nerdseq.

The signal flow of my midi atm is: nerd out> microcosm in > ableton in, ableton out> microcosm out> nerd in.
I know that is correcrt because ableton does recieve midi messages properly and I've used this for a while in this configuration.

I'd like to control the microcosm pedal cc values with the nerdseq mapping.
However, I'm unsure what to use for the midi out settings on the mapping? 
Microcosm midi channel is 8

Thanks

Bugs that I shared on the discord.

1) After pressing abort when selecting sample on pattern screen (load sample screen) .. .the screen defaults to sequencer instead returning to previous pattern screen...It is not very UX friendly when pop up menus are not returning you back to where you were... I noticed this in more situations / screens

2) When pressing SHIFT + cursor UP or SHIFT + cursor RIGHT on empty field in sequencer screen, both shortcuts do the same... creates "last assigned pattern number +1 " .

Would it be possible to do instead:

• SHIFT + cursor RIGHT / LEFT on empty pattern - create "last assigned pattern number -1" /  "last assigned pattern number +1"
  
• SHIFT + cursor UP on empty pattern - create "last assigned pattern number"
  

• Shifts up / down triggers while the values are wrapping around
  
• this function "empties" the selected "filled trigger" or creates "off gate" on "empty field" before it starts "shifting / wrapping around" as the shortcut first registering "SHIFT + OK (empty trigger/add gate off) shortcut" before pressing also cursor UP/DWN
  
• maybe shortcut SHIFT + UP + cursor UP/DOWN could be used as this combination is empty???
  

So I have the Bitbox Micro connected to my NerdSeq via MIDI, MIDI Pads on the Bitbox listens to Channel 10, see picture 1 and 2. When a pad’s MIDI In is set to None, Root note to None and Pad Note to Default, the NerdSeq troggers the Pad as expected starting from Note C-3. 

However, when I try to assign a specific note to a Pad, it doesn’t trigger the pad. When I change that specific pad to listen to MIDI In channel 10, all notes that are played trigger that pad, I’ve also tried setting the Root Note to be the same as the Pad Note but that doesn’t help either. What am I missing here?

I want to assign a specific note to a specific pad as my plan is to get a second BitBox micro, in order to have more samples available from the same MIDI track. 

More specifically, here is my setup:

NerdSeq1 + 2hp MIDI connected to NerdSeq2 + 2hp MID

NerdSeq1 connected to the Bitbox Micro1 MIDI In. 

This already consumes both MIDI outs on the NerdSeq 1, so the plan is to use the MIDI through on NerdSeq2’s 2HP MIDI expander and connect it to the Bitbox Micro2, but I want to make sure that assigning MIDI notes to pads does work and that this setup using the MIDI through on the second NerdSeq to the second Bitbox Micro will work before pulling the trigger. 

What am I missing not being able to assign specific note values to specific pads? Also, would appreciate some pointers about the setup with MIDI through, will it work?

           

I’ve seen some colored buttons for the NerdSeq here and there, would especially want a red and green one for stop and start respectively. Altough muscle memory is mostly there after around a week of use, I still get a brain fart every now and then, so would be nice with an additional que for which button does what. 

Where are people getting the colored buttons from?

I’ve got the CV expander and I’m sending a slow LFO for 4 steps and then sending a stop command. I have a break command in fx 1 on step 16. Nice and simple and it works. 

However, when I insert row probability on the lfo row the break command does not consistently work and the lfo stays on then cuts off. I have tried putting the lfo on 01 instead of 00 so the break doesn’t send to the same row but the same thing happens. When I reset with no probability it works as it should. 

I’m certain I’m missing some fundamental point here …

Thanks in advance.

Hi ,

Certainly a dumb question and sorry for that, 

but in manual, I don’t find the shortcut for just shift pattern up or down , just find in manual a way to insert or delete some content which shift pattern.

I use this feature a lot in other sequencer