As you can see in my Videoseries i am big fan of the Step but found one thing which, i think, is very important overall and one that would make it even more usefull.
Midi in Channel selection: This would be so important. I select songs with a Morningstar MC8 but i have other pedals where i need to select presets (from which i need more than one in one song) that respond also to PC messages. This is not possible without changing songs on Step.
The “next pattern” switch, at the moment, only selects the next pattern ( i know ;D) while Step is playing. It would be soooooooo much more usefull if it would work the same way while playing as it does when Step is stopped. When it is stopped you can scroll through all patterns till it starts on the first again and so on. If you make this the same while Step is playing you could select specific patterns even with the one knob. Please consider this in an update.
I´m with @bogii!
The option to give the step an own Midi Chanel would be fantastic! Otherwise it´s hard to integrate the step in a Midi System.
Best,
Thomas
I’d like to elevate this request because only listening to one MIDI channel is essential to cooperating with other gear. I am holding off buying the Step until this is addressed because I can’t have it responding to messages meant for other devices.
Also, I’d like to point out that the technique in the Step manual of using all 16 channels of PC messages to work around the 128 program limit is not considered standard practice in the industry.
Instead, the Step should listen to only one MIDI channel and receive a bank select message, followed by a PC message on its own channel. This allows for about 16,000 banks of 128 programs, or 2 million total combinations.
To insure backwards compatibility, a future Step firmware could have an OMNI mode which works as the device does today, and then a choice of channels 1-16 where it would use bank select as explained above.
