Advanced Step Sequencer

Comments (63)

• dirtybit · March 02 2010
  Awesome patch! Would it be hard to add APC40/Launchpad support?
• AuralBee · March 03 2010
  Most excellent, I really like functionality and layout, thanks!
  Maybe a swingfunction ? Most seqs seem to be missing that.
  Is wonderful as it is though.
• simplicissimus · March 03 2010
  Need no music theory...!?!
  Must be the ideal thing for me...!!!
• pp · March 05 2010
  hi rozzer, great work, and thanks. a point though - all the automation / modulation appears under unusable generic object names (like live.numbox[1] etc). could you look into naming all your parameters etc with rozzer-type names and ordering them? my names suck, (and i do hate to use edits of others devices, (!)). thanks again!
• Rozzer · March 05 2010
  Hi pp. Absolutely, I am aware that needs doing. Pure laziness on my part. Will fix in an update soon :)
• mdrfdr · March 09 2010
  different loop points and musical scales are doing a lot of job for me!!! saves my time...
  is it posibile to add patches so it can be automated? or somehow add to clips. or maby i'm not diggin it...
• Rozzer · March 11 2010
  Thanks for the suggestions mdrfdr. Patches would be nice, but it seems that the Preset object does not support live.grid at this time. I've been told Ableton will fix that at some point.
  What do you mean by adding clips?
• mdrfdr · March 11 2010
  I mean like you work with audio clip in arrangement view, and then you export slices in new midi track... but nevermind that, that was stupid suggestion.
  Adding any option, any way to make ASS work through diferent phrases in track will be great! ;)
  P.S. And people, how do you get it ? Adding more than one ASS and enableing and disableing them in arrangement ?
• Rozzer · March 12 2010
  I tend to just record the output to a midi clip when I'm happy with the sequence.
  I do want to think more about live performance features though so I'll bear your request in mind. Another thing I want to add is transposition via midi input, so you could transpose the whole sequence, but still have it output in the correct key and scale.
• covent · October 22 2010
  is there anyway to export a pattern from the sequencer to "midi clip" pattern. So I can work with it as an ordinary midi pattern (midi clip) with the grid and the keyboard on the left?
• Rozzer · December 27 2010
  covent - see the comment above yours.
• dsb · January 16 2011
  Love this sequencer! thanks so much Rozzer for your great work. just one question, i cant figure out how to use the cc controllers section, am i missing something? i figure out a parameter's midi cc number under the midi mapping tab in live and then change the knob to that same number, nothing happens. any ideas?
• dsb · January 16 2011
  Disregard, Figured it out. Thanks again for the wonderful step sequencer!
• vh · February 08 2011
  After heavy use i have to say this one is very usefull intuitive and lot of fun!!!
• ander · September 22 2011
  Beautiful device! But I do not get the tie thing: I would expect it to holde the first note that appears during the tie as long as long as there is a consecutive set of ties. But if I look at the MIDI notes that is not the case. So how can I use the ties e.g. with simpler?
• Cryptonym · January 04 2012
  Is there anyway to make the random buttons midi-mappable
  I am a heavy user and I would really love to have it midi-mappable
  Thanks for making this in the first place
• hdouble · January 06 2012
  I love this thing. There are a couple of improvements I would like to see (like the ability to automate named parameters and not just generic MIDI CCs, and being able to record realtime edits to the sequence as MIDI data) but this is a terrific tool for putting together some nicely layered grooves.
• fantasticmachine · January 29 2012
  hey just wanted to say that presets recall the settings for the livegrids and other live stuff now, at least in max519. I wasted a lot of time trying to use pattr objects for the livegrid and livenumber objects, which doesn't work - has to use autopattr for the live objects and then the pattrstorage can access them properly as far as i can tell. Thanks so much rozzer for this really versatile step sequencer. You are great.
• soundsketcher · October 14 2012
  Very strange, none of the random buttons make any changes for me. Am I overlooking something obvious?
• soundsketcher · October 14 2012
  ... also noticed that the "arrow" controls for each parameter also do nothing. I'm guessing it's a problem with my system since nobody else reported it.
• Spotta · April 16 2013
  Exactly the same here, no random or move notes functionality. Live 9, M4L 6.1.
  Apart from that - a lovely little tool ;)
• atari · May 02 2013
  Since updating to Live 9 and max 6.2. It dose not fully work for me too. Big shame I love this sequencer.
• MadeInMachines · May 22 2013
  Push support would be awesome. No sequencer has managed it properly yet :(
• Rozzer · September 06 2013
  Hi all,
  Random buttons are now working in Live 9.
  - Rozzer
• BasilB · September 17 2013
  Wow
  What can I say, instantly playable and so much fun. Thanks very much for your hard work in putting this together, love it to bits.
  Basil Zorch
• mochipet · April 25 2014
  Hey this is a great user interface on this one.. but the pentatonic and blues scales are not the right intervals.. unless I'm missing something.. the major seems to be good.. other ones I have not checked yet.. do you think you will ever fix this? thank you!
• blortblort · September 10 2014
  just awesome. LOVE the ability to adjust the loop length for each parameter ;)
• datsmabowl · October 15 2015
  Thanks!
  Exactly the thing I've been hunting for, perfect for sequencing monophonic hardware, interesting scales, great interface!
  Nice work.
• massy · November 21 2015
  Hi, great work!
  In the future will be possible mapping midi for every step?
  Would be awesome!
  thanks
• macdalor · August 28 2016
  Hi and we'll done for this fantastic device! Just one question from a live novice 😉 are there any ways I can change patterns in one single track using midi ? Or how do I stop it if I want to use another patern with another synth?
• atari · January 25 2017
  Random buttons & arrows have stopped working in Live 9.7.1 :(
• Evolver · August 05 2017
  cool!
  It's very good to use it for 303 but then you need to do it SLIDE!!!
  thanx)
• leopari · December 09 2018
  Hi, great arpeggiator, I only have problems with the CC, even when assigned to a parameter it seems not to work on VST
• asktmac · December 12 2018
  cannot load your file no matter how I try...spent 1 hr 1/2 trying to get it to show up in maxforlive.com NOTHING can download the file ok, but will not load, very very frustrating!!! Using Ableton 10 Live suite latest update.. tried every link and webpage available..
• maxluca · December 16 2018
  Heard a lot about the rozzer. Sadly enough the sequencer can not be started in Ableton Live 10.. Any suggestions?
• Drage · January 29 2019
  Hi Maxluca,
  I use Rozzer in Live 10 without any problems, so not sure its. aLive 10 issue.
• Rozzer · February 01 2019
  Hi all,
  An update, nothing groundbreaking, but big enough to call v2. MIDI CC sequencers have been replaced with direct parameter control. Much more flexible for any automation within Live. Enjoy.
  rozz3r
• Drage · March 19 2019
  Rozzer, just wanted to say your sequencer is the best, and beats the majority of commercial m4l sequencers.
• Drage · March 20 2019
  Question: Is there anyway to (jitter) map the @sensitivity@ parameter in the Ableton sampler slice mode?
• tresk009 · April 13 2019
  Question, I try to download the advanced step sequencer device on my mac however, the file that appears in my download folder is titled, Rozzer - Advanced Step Sequencer v2.0.amxd presentation, once opened.
  Can you advise if the device is available or maybe I'm making a basic mistake.
  Many thanks!
• tresk009 · April 13 2019
  Resolved :)
• ohkalenaw · July 07 2019
  Hi Rozzer, the features of this (surprisingly) free product are incredible. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble using your device in any kind of dark theme. Many of the parameter and button labels become indistinguishable from the background. Is there a way to fix it?
• athousanddetails · January 18 2020
  Hi Rozzer!
  In ableton 10.1.7, if you open more than one instance of Rozzer, the 2nd one either doesn't run... or takes like 3 min until it starts running!
  I don't know what might be, but here is the tip :)
• postigojames · June 06 2020
  Hi !
  On my mac, i can't figure out how to unmap a map control, do you guys find a way ?
• cybergenic · June 22 2020
  Great device - Tks APC40 support would be sik!
• atari · August 28 2020
  It’s stopped working for me on Ableton 10.1.7
  Hope there’s a fix. Best sequencer by far.
• JackAnderson46 · July 07 2021
  How do I get this software to open as part of Ableton and not in its own separate page ?
• Chrisnot · August 01 2021
  "This device is not available in this version of Live."
  This goes for Ableton 11.0.5.
  Is there gonna be another update for this version?
• michaelheitmanek · September 26 2021
  This is fantastic!
• Bukarash · January 24 2022
  It worked for me only on version 10.0.5. Version 10.1.3 and above, everything ended with a program crash (
• scolacur · March 24 2022
  Hey, this thing is great, but I noticed a bug.
  When I record the MIDI into a new track to save the sequence, it doesn't bring along the Param01-Param05 sequence data -- only pitch/octave/velocity data. The Param Sequencing is probably the most powerful feature of this, so this seems like an odd omission.
  Other things that IMO would be great additions:
  -Ability to lock a step to exclude it from randomization
  -Ability to sequence Note Length(Gate time)
  -Ability to set a randomization range for pitch/oct/vel
  -For certain params, when using the up/down arrow buttons to move the sequenced values up and down, it would be cool if you could toggle the "wrapping" effect off, so that for example if you moved the velocity arrow up, once a note hit 127 it stayed there as you continued moving the rest of the notes up, sort of "squeezing" things into a closer range.
• connorpogue · May 14 2022
  Could you add individual presets to the notes, gate, tie, velocity and two control changes? that way you could save individual presets for each of those and combine together.
• tunabee · January 07 2023
  This thing is amazing, only two things would make it my favorite step sequencer:
  1. Transpose with incoming MIDI
  2. A tab for gate length
  3. Ability to rename Param1-5 to more descriptive labels
  Otherwise this is impressive and musical and just a lot of fun!
• lucycates · March 17 2023
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• diefused · June 17 2024
  Hi Rozzer.
  Great Sequencer. Are there any news about the "more than one instances" topic?
  Thank you
• PaulSommer · July 04 2024
  The text is white for me i cant see any of the Texts in the Settings. Can anyone help or is this a known problem?
• Asher · December 10 2024
  Thanks!
• adpnh1 · January 06 2025
  This is incredible, thanks for making this thing.
• davidbirdwell42 · March 24 2025
  Awesome (but needs a few colour tweaks for Ableton 12 )
• zenluiz · April 30 2025
  Is there a way/button to reset the device to initial state? :)
• Timepiece · August 05 2025
  As previous post mentions, awesome device, but parts of the GUI unreadable if using one of the darker color themes
• bane · October 22 2025
  How do i use the most right part of the sequencer. That is a modulator for other parameters in the set?
  Seems really nice but cant seem to get a hang of it.
  thx
• meterspecialist · February 03 2026
  This is working great on good ol' Suite 11. Also, it's freaking awesome. So musical.
  Thanks!