Midi Bundle

A Collection of Advanced Midi sequencers built to use Kontakts Midi Output to play whatever Instruments you can point them at.

There is a free basic version of Chordian available from here if you want to get an idea how they work and a video here which shows how to set them up in many Hosts.

Please Note: The full version of Kontakt 5.7.3 or above is required. Not for Kontakt Player

ARP Stream is a modular style complex Sequencer with an Arpeggiator at it’s core. It features many different ways of manipulating pitch and tempo which can all interact with each other which makes it fascinating to explore. It also has 3 CC Sequencers which can target any CC number and also includes a profile Editor for making your own specific correctly named profiles for hardware etc.

SequencersAltogether there are 11 Sequencers. The top 4 target the usual suspects; Trigger, velocity, Note Length and Octave Offset whereas the bottom 4 are where things start to get interesting. The Repeat Sequencer serves 2 purposes, the first is the ability to play sub Gate Sequences. Each Step allows selecting the number of repeats and which Grid will be used if any. Secondly Every other Sequencer has an ‘RP’ Button which when enabled will repeat ‘X’ Repeats before moving forward.

The Stutter Sequencer allows splitting up each step into up to 32 stutter repeats which can range from rhythmic repeats to glitchy. There is also a Fade button which will fade them out to create a delay type of effect.

The Mode Sequencer has 26 different options per step. The first 13 deal primarily with Pitch (with the exception of Chord) which includes play Lowest/Highest held Note, play an Octave below or a Power chord etc.. These modes are followed by time based Modes (‘X/Y’) which rotate through Y steps only playing X notes. So 2/3 will play the second count of each 3 counts. Finally there are some random percentage modes consisting of 25%, 50%, 75% and 90%.

The last Sequencer allows overriding the Main Frequency setting and can create some very experimental and chaotic Rhythms. Th standard straight Frequencies are all lined up at the beginning and then followed by more exotic clock divisions.

There is a sophisticated Randomizer System with lots of options including local and global Randomizers. It’s a difficult machine to randomize really due to the potential for chaos everywhere in how everything combines so the Row randomizers are probably much more useful than the Global ones.

PatternsIt uses 12 patterns which is made up of all settings and they can be selected via the Midi Note Octave or via the GUI buttons.

Please note: The full version of Kontakt 5.7.3 or above is required. Not for Kontakt Player

Midi Looper is an exploration of live recordable step sequencers which works in a similar way to Guitar Loopers, except for MIDI notes. They are a fun and creative way to generate sequences and MIDI Looper brings a large selection of Record Modes which behave in different ways. There are 7 Sequencers in total and each one can be up to 128 steps in length. They are all polyphonic with up to 8 notes per step and some Modes allow overlapping steps.

The Sequencers are hard locked to the timeline, which is a first for HGS Instruments. This means that the Sequence is always accurate when using different step amounts or frequencies regardless of where Playback is started. The normal Mode when Hold is disabled is that the 7 Triggers (represented in red) will act as Gates and let a Sequence through when engaged. Alternatively DAW Automation can be used using the GUI Buttons. Everything except Modes and the Scale can be automated by the DAW, it was designed with this in mind to be a single control per Parameter.

Once Recorded the Sequencers can then be processed through the playback system with many options such as Play Mode, Velocity and Length Percentages, Probability and Gate Conditions. Additionally there are 7 Variations which allow overriding specific parameters with customized values. Only one Variation is selected at a time and each can have a unique Global Scale attached to it for re-pitching the output.

There is a Midi Recorder which starts recording the output of the Sequences as soon as Play is engaged in the DAW. Using drag n drop the Sequences can be exported at any time either to the DAW or elsewhere. Although Kontakt doesn’t support multi-channel Midi output, by using Multi Track, the exported streams will be separated into individual Sequences.

Please Note: The full version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or above is required. Not for Kontakt Player