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MIDI export

Drag MIDI straight from DYSEKT into your DAW, or save it as a file: every slice of a loop in time, your sequences and melodies, or the chords and arpeggios you played.

#Slice to MIDI

In Slice mode, the SLICE TO MIDI key in the toolbar makes a MIDI clip of every slice at its original timing.

  • Drag it onto a MIDI or instrument track in your DAW.
  • Click it, or right-click it, to save the clip as a .mid file.

Played back through DYSEKT, the clip plays the original loop. Move, delete or repeat its notes to rearrange the loop.

The clip is at the sample's tempo (the BPM in the top bar) and ends on a bar line.

#Sequences and melodies

Every sequencer has a DRAG MIDI key:

  • Drum sequencer: the shown pattern, a note per pad.
  • Slice sequencer: the shown variation, or the whole chain with CHAIN on, a note per slice.
  • Melody: every phrase, in the order the phrasing plays them, with its swing. The note before a SLIDE runs into it, and the slide carries CC84 (portamento control), so it glides when the clip plays back into DYSEKT, and on synths that read CC84 or glide on overlapping notes.

Drag it onto a track in your DAW, or click it to save a .mid file.

The clip plays as the sequencer does. Swing, nudge, ratchets, velocity and length are in the notes. CHANCE is rolled as it plays: with any step on less than 100%, the clip runs four times through the pattern, so its variations are in the clip.

#Step pitch, reverse and stems

A step's PITCH, REVERSE and STEMS go into the clip as controller messages just before its note. DYSEKT plays them back from the clip, in Slice and Drum mode:

ControllerStep settingValue
CC 85PITCH64 is no change; each step up or down is a semitone
CC 86REVERSE0 plays forwards, 127 plays backwards
CC 87STEMS15 plays all four; 1 drums, 2 bass, 4 music, 8 vocals, added together

Your DAW shows them as undefined controllers 85, 86 and 87, the names MIDI gives those numbers. Edit them there like any other controller lane. The values last until the next change, and reset when the transport stops.

#MIDI capture

In Keys mode, the CHORDS and ARP tabs record what you play, with strum, humanize and arpeggios as they sounded.

  1. Click MIDI CAPTURE to arm it. Recording starts on your first note.
  2. Play, then click it again to stop.
  3. Drag DRAG MIDI onto a track, or click DRAG MIDI to save a .mid file.

CLEAR discards the capture.

#Tips

  • If your DAW doesn't accept the drag, click the key to save a file and drag the file in from your computer.
  • DYSEKT's MIDI notes match its slices and pads: slice or pad 1 is C1 (MIDI note 36).