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BeatStep SpeedDialer

by pyrolator

The Arturia Beatstep is a great device, but with its current...

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Type
Audio Effect
Author
pyrolator
Version
0.9
License
AttributionNonCommercial
Live version
9.1.1
Max version
6.1.5
Downloads
1,953
Updated
2014-04-05

Description

The Arturia Beatstep is a great device, but with its current firmware the encoders are much too slow. It takes 5 turnes to get thru all 128 values.

I made this speeddialer to make fast movements possible. Just give a speedfactor (arround 5 is good for me).

You see two dials - the small one shows the real value, the second, bigger one shows the multiplied value which can be mapped to any function within Ableton Live.

The values are interpolated with a ramp, so you should not hear any glitches.

Comments (11)

  • spektacles · June 12 2014
    This is great. Thanks!
  • gian · August 31 2014
    Thanks Pyrolator :)
  • menerlache · February 27 2015
    It's a great idea this device.
    But on my DAW there are stray noises when I turn the dials.
    If speedFactor is "0", there are no cracks.
  • allnight · May 23 2015
    Many thanks, makes the unit useable.
  • Kidblast · November 15 2016
    How do you set it up?
  • apren · January 17 2017
    Hi and thanks for the device.
    I load it, but my beatstep knobs do not match your device. Some do, but others act on the "on" buttons of the device. I am doing something wrong?
    If there is no solution, I will have to remap the betstep to your device, and save it as a template. Or edit my beatstep with the Arturia midi control center, so that the controls match with your device.
  • hatyn · May 07 2018
    Nice save for a flawed product! Limiting the allowed knob input would be beneficial, as right now you can go past the maximum values and then have to dial back the encoder without affecting a value for however far you twisted it past the max.
  • hatyn · May 07 2018
    Oh actually you can find which max value is good for your speed factor and change it in the MIDI center. So like speed factor 8.35 would require your knob range to be 0-15 or so.
  • hatyn · January 21 2019
    also a good idea is to delete the Ableton midicontrol script so it doesn't interfere with the absolute values being assigned to controls (seems to switch to relative no matter what settings are setup in midi control center for beatstep)
  • dnsdobai · May 18 2020
    Thanks.It is a life saver. My only problem I can't undo the mapping unless I map another parameter...but otherwise brill idea!
  • Damosan33 · June 06 2025
    Please update this device. Midi mapping data is lost if you save the effect/instrument rack containing Beatstep SpeeDialer. Got it working with beatstep, but its useless if you can't recall the midi inputs. Live 11.3 used. Any suggestions on alternative devices? Tried Multimapper, Mapr etc, but run into the same issues...

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