Arturia BeatStep - Controller and Sequencer
Arturia BeatStep
The Arturia BeatStep: a degree of functionality and performance never seen before in a portable pad controller.
BeatStep is highly versatile, capable of triggering clips in applications like Ableton Live, playing drums with BFD or EZDrummer, or tweaking synth parameters. Or doing all of those at once!
BeatStep is also a 16-step analog sequencer, and it’s like a force of nature when it comes to creating interesting musical phrases for analog synthesizers, MIDI drum machines, keyboards and DAWs.
Its advanced connectivity interfaces easily with a computer or iPad® using USB, a drum module with MIDI, or the CV/Gate inputs on an analog synthesizer.
Arturia BeatStep Features
16 backlit pads
- Red = Control mode
- Blue = SEQ mode
- Velocity - and pressure-sensitive
16 assignable encoders with 2 modes
- MIDI CC
- NRPN/RPN
Transport controls
- Send MIDI clock with Start/Stop (internal sync)
- Send MMC Play and Stop messages
Data Encoder
- Volume MIDI CC#7 – Control Mode
- Rate – in Sequence mode
- Sequence Transpose – SHIFT + Data Encoder
Kensington Lock port
16 user presets
Multiple pad modes
- Note data
- MIDI CC data
- Program Change with Bank Select