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Arturia

Keystep 37

💾 Firmware 1.1.6.579

📖 Official Manual

Features

Chord / Strum Mode

  1. Hold Shift and press Hold. Chord will become orange and Hold will blink

  2. Rotate 1 / Type to choose the chord

  3. Hit single keys on the keyboard to trigger that chord

  4. Rotate 2 / Notes to add more notes to the chord

  5. Rotate 3 / Vel > Notes to adjust how many notes are played based on velocity:

    Value # of Notes
    0% All notes no matter what
    50% About 12 at low velocity, all at high
    99% Only the root at low velocity, all at high
  6. Rotate 4 / Strum to strum the values instead of playing chords

The more notes in your chord, the more this affect is noticeable

Control Mode / Using the Knobs

  1. By default, 1 / Type, 2 / Notes, 3 / Vel > Notes, and 4 / Strum will control the first bank of MIDI CC's you've configured in MIDI Control Center

  2. Tap Chord to advance to Bank 2

  3. Repeat to advance to Banks 3 and then 4

When Chord is orange, you are in Chord Mode, and the knobs don't send CCs

Setting a User Chord

  1. Hold down Chord and play a chord

  2. You should now be in Chord Mode and can play your chord with one note

Step Recording

  1. Set Mode to “Seq”

  2. Rotate Mode to 1–8, depending on what sequence you want to overwrite

  3. Press and release

  4. Hold , then press a key on the keyboard between 1 and 16 (blue labels) to set the number of steps

  5. Repeat the previous step to “add” steps to the sequence

  6. Hold down one or more keys

  7. To create a step, release the keys

  8. To create a longer step (ties), press Tap once for each additional step to tie

  9. Release the keys

  10. Tap Tap to enter a rest instead of a note

  11. Tap ⏹️ when done

Step Recording w/ Legato

  1. Start a Step Recording

  2. Hold down Tap

  3. Play notes as if step recording

  4. Release Tap

These notes won't trigger new gate events

Notes and Non-Obvious Behaviors

  • Recommend keep program 8 clear so you can safely hit play and not hear some random sequence

MIDI Info & CCs

Does not respond to Program Change

No notable MIDI CCs