stepwerk

Stepwerk is a 16 step pattern sequencer for Windows influenced by analogue hardware sequencers and more modern sequencing devices such as the Doepfer Schaltwerk. It is designed for semi-random, improvised music making controlled from external MIDI harware.

Features:

• up to 16 steps per sequence
• 4 sequence lines (note, velocity, controller 1 and controller 2) per track
• 8 tracks per pattern
• Static or continual randomising of step data
• realtime MIDI control of all sequence data
• MIDI sync. control for clocking external devices
• ...and the proverbial "much, much more"

System Requirements:

• Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP
• Screen resolution 1024 x 768 or higher
• Some memory
• A processor

I don't really know what the minimum specs. are - it works fine on my 1.4ghz P4, though I'd hope that most things would.

Notes:

This project is in development so things might work in a manner not entirely as you might logically expect. Or they might not work at all.

What's more I've not yet had time to write any documentation, so if there's anything particularly baffling please contact me and if I can work out what on earth I was doing I'll try and explain it.

To install Stepwerk simply unzip the stepwerk.zip file and then run the stepwerk.exe program. You can edit the .bmp file if you'd like to change the look of the program, and given my artistic abilities I wouldn't blame you in the slightest if you did.

Please note that Stepwerk expects to find an installed MIDI in (and preferably two of them) and MIDI out port when it starts up; if it can't find one or the other then it won't run. If you are running into problems with this issue the quickest work around until I build in some proper error trapping is to install a MIDI loopback program such as MIDI Yoke (available at www.midiox.com) which will provide Windows with some 'virtual' MIDI ports.

Download:

Current version 0.1.1 (release date 11 October 2003)

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