Squarp has released a beta of a major update to the Pyramid Sequencer operating system, PyraOS v3.0.
This video, via Olivier Ozoux, offers a sneak preview of the updated step sequencer, focusing on these new features:
0:48 Custom Chords
1:47 Extend Pattern
2:50 New Arpeggiator Style
4:37 Consolidate Tracks
5:31 Instrument Definitions ( Drum Map )
7:07 Instrument Definitions ( Midi CC )
it lacks internal sounds bigly. instead of building the thing standalone squarp should have pitched the idea of a virus ultra workstation with an internal pyramid sequencer to access music at their headquarters in recklinghausen, germany. i would have bought such an instrument within a nanosecond.
I disagree – the more it does, the less it does well.Pyramid is fantastic sequencer – if it had to do voice(s) as well, it would probably be more expensive and have to cut sequencing features out. Who needs another subpar VA or low bit sampler?
if your question is who needs another workstation, then count me in. for instance: i never quite understood why there is still no akai/inmusic workstation w/ internal sounds plus onboard mpc sequencer on the market. there are only *desktop* mpc grooveboxes without keys/keybed. why is that, pete goodliffe (akai´s head of coding)?
Here’s a crazy idea, why not sequence a Virus using the Pyramid!! Is such a thing even possible with all of those outputs I wonder?
i was hoping for a new virus. ti2 is somewhat old, sound-wise. still good, though. if access could incorporate a pyramid into a new board/desktop, it would be a cutting-edge workstation.
It would be awesome if the code was open source, because it’s not, is it?
Obviously the Pyramid has some direct competition from the Deluge – which sports a large 128 LED pad matrix and an internal FM synth + drum-synth. But for me, as a keyboard player, the Deluge is more appealing as hands on composition & performance tool + it has interesting MIDI effects.
> the Deluge – which sports a large 128 LED pad matrix
i don´t give a sh*t about that. the deluge lacks… A SCREEN!! just like the circuit, and the circuit mono station. major design flaw imo. thank god the pyramid has a display.
It most certainly does not face direct competition considering the Deluge costs $200 more for those synths.
I don’t get the haterade being spread around in opposition to a standalone sequencer that is REALLY GOOD at being a sequencer, better than any all-in-one kit I’ve seen on the market… better than many DAWs in fact. Take one sequencer, add it to a room full of synths, modules, drum machines, and that’s it!
too complicated. i´d like to have one workstation instead.
What you call “too complicated” is in reality more flexible than a workstation as you can add and remove the “sounds” you like/don’t like. Seeing your Virus comment above, makes it look like that you only work with presets, which makes the “standalone sequencer + a room full of synths, modules, drum machines” solution actually better.
Are there any other non-desktop-software sequencers that have instrument definitions? I know of Modstep on the iPad but that’s about it. I’m regularly craving this very feature on the DigiTakt.
The Sequentix Cirklon certainly does. And at about 4x the price of a Pyramid it has so much more.