Ideas and Feature Requests

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Associate chord chain with patch

I love the chord chain feature but think it would be useful if you could 'pin' a saved chord chain to a patch. It's great that there's a separate pool of chains you can save to and draw from across patches, but for my workflow I make chord chains very specifically for the patch I'm working on. So switching patches then remembering to switch chains is confusing, especially when performing live. I've also ended up overwriting chains because I forget chains aren't saved with patches.

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Chris Brown

Oct 31

I can see how this would be useful and how it might be achieved, however, I have a couple of concerns/queries...

Would you want the associated chain to be applied immediately on loading a patch or would it be acceptable to load it manually?

If you associated, say, chain 1 with patch 1, then changed patch, then editted the chain, then loaded patch 1, would you be ok with chain 1 having changed?

This later point is difficult to overcome given the limited storage space ARP has.

August 26, 2025

Live rhythm & groove recording

First sorry for my bad english and maybe my idea is difficult to explain.

With Rhythm patterns and Groove patterns you can configure gate, velocity and delay into a pattern for each step seperately. This is great but also a little uncomfortable (sometimes ;-)).

In most little drum machines like Volca Beats you can use a kind of live mode where you play/drum live on an instrument and it is directly recorded to the sequencer. So in Midicake Arp: wouldn`t it be possible to record and transform a live played rythm (One knop on device or external drum pad) to a rythm/groove pattern? This would really help me to create intuitive rythm patterns on the go(groove patterns I don`t use very much). Hopefully my words make any sense.

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lumm71

Aug 26

I suspected it couldn’t fit into the philosophy of the Arp 🙂. Maybe this kind of live recording requires a new kind of live sequencer data structure beside rythm and groove.

August 11, 2025

Makam Scale

Hello again,

I'm really really looking forward to V9 - thank you for your precious work!

Actually we are on a Balkan-Trip and I love the Hungarian Scales in the Arp.

But wouldn't it be great, also for the Arabic market, to support microtuning over pitchbend?

Like the pitch filter became somehow unimportant for me after you installed the song-mode in the sequencer - because I now can set the pitch start there plus the note offset and the step limitations (or vice versa) can replace the pitch filter - it would be a lot more versatile to send pitchbends and automate them for arabic or turkish scales..

Sorry for all my ideas - they are just brain-noise I have to get out. I'm totally fine with your awesome gear, but inspirations come and go, right??

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Mis Adarek

Aug 22

Hey Chris and thank you for your fast response and the explanation - everything understood.

Normally, I don't do beta-testing any more, but if v9 shouldn't be ready soon, I would make an exception..

Thanks for watching

Btw, I forgot how good cables and a decent mixer are able to spice up music.

See ya

August 5, 2025

Yamaha Seqtrak like Visualizer

So in the beta version 9 we have a visualizer for showing notes as beams in a piano roll. Why not extend it to some different display types, different visualizers like Yamaha does in the Seqtrak App? OK, Yamaha exaggerated it a bit 🙂. But something similar would be a cool feature for the Arp, wouldn’t it?

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Chris Brown

Aug 05

Yes, it's a good idea. While, I don't want the visualizers to just be a gimmicky feature, the note visualizer and piano roll in Connect are useful tools for seeing the effects of your parameter changes. I do have one other visualizer that I think would be interesting. The issue is available time to do the development work. What other visualizer styles would you like to see?