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Title: Web-based MicroBrute Sequence Editor
Post by: jello on February 08, 2017, 06:25:13 pm: hi guys, I'm an enthusiast user of Arturia products. I currently own a MicroBrute, and it's awesome. I'm using it mostly for bass, and I love how FAT it gets.

Since creating complex sequences is a little difficult just with the keyboard (at least for me), I wrote this web-based editor, and wanted to share with the community.

http://maticwebdesign.com/microbrute

It's free to use and modify.

There are many things I would like to add, but for now I think it's a nice start. Arturia will probably create an editor of their own at some point.

What you can do:

- create variable length patterns
- listen/edit in real time (I chose one of the sounds I use from the MicroBrute, more options to come)
- turn click on/off (I find this very useful for longer sequences)
- export sequence to clipboard

Once you created your sequence, this is how you load it into your MicroBrute:

1. Open MicroBrute Connection software (download from https://www.arturia.com/microbrute/resources)
2. Choose the "Sequences" tab
3. Click on "Save sequences" and save the mbseq file to your computer. MIDI versions are not needed.
4. Open the file in a text editor (notepad/textedit/bbedit/etc)
5. Choose the sequence you want to replace with the one you created, for example "1:52 x x 52 x x 52 x x 52 x x 52 52 52 52" and replace it with the one you create in the web-based editor (be sure to not delete the sequence number, in this case "1:")
6. Save the file
7. Go to MicroBrute Connection and choose "Load sequences"
8. Upload the modified file
9. Voilá! The new pattern will be available under the name you stored it (#1 for this example)

Let me know how it goes, hopefully it will be an useful tool.

Best regards,

jello
Title: Re: Web-based MicroBrute Sequence Editor
Post by: vibes71 on March 17, 2017, 04:21:16 pm: :) Great and handy tool ! Thank you for sharing.
Title: Re: Web-based MicroBrute Sequence Editor
Post by: Jack Pimiento on April 08, 2017, 11:13:08 am: I've just bought a Microbrute This editor is really helpful.

Thanks a lot! :D
Title: Re: Web-based MicroBrute Sequence Editor
Post by: Bill Poster on April 18, 2017, 11:46:33 am: A nice utility - it's handy to be able to visualise the pattern. Look forward to you future mods.
Title: Re: Web-based MicroBrute Sequence Editor
Post by: marin_q on April 22, 2017, 10:34:22 pm: can someone please explain how to save sequences created in editor?
Title: Re: Web-based MicroBrute Sequence Editor
Post by: Jack Pimiento on May 30, 2017, 02:16:54 pm: Once you created your sequence, this is how you load it into your MicroBrute:

1. Open MicroBrute Connection software (download from https://www.arturia.com/microbrute/resources)
2. Choose the "Sequences" tab
3. Click on "Save sequences" and save the mbseq file to your computer. MIDI versions are not needed.
4. Open the file in a text editor (notepad/textedit/bbedit/etc)
5. Choose the sequence you want to replace with the one you created, for example "1:52 x x 52 x x 52 x x 52 x x 52 52 52 52" and replace it with the one you create in the web-based editor (be sure to not delete the sequence number, in this case "1:")
6. Save the file
7. Go to MicroBrute Connection and choose "Load sequences"
8. Upload the modified file
9. Voilá! The new pattern will be available under the name you stored it (#1 for this example)
Title: Re: Web-based MicroBrute Sequence Editor
Post by: megabrute on January 04, 2018, 04:55:20 pm: marin_q, there is a button to copy the sequence to your clipboard. Then you paste it into the sequence file. This is the missing step that is not explicit.

This tool is very useful and I made my account to say thanks and that it is awesome!
Title: Re: Web-based MicroBrute Sequence Editor
Post by: marin_q on August 26, 2018, 10:08:43 pm: Hi guys, can someone please upload download file for sequencer editor? I can only find this one, but it has no "save" option:

http://www.maticwebdesign.com/microbrute/

Thanks a lot!
Title: Re: Web-based MicroBrute Sequence Editor
Post by: CheBridges on August 29, 2018, 02:05:12 am: Hello everyone. This piece of software is a great idea and very useful for creating more complex sequences. However I cannot get the sequences to load into my Microbrute.
I have saved another mbseq file and pated my new sequence into this and saved the changes. From what I gathered this is the method that you advise, but I keep getting an error saying: 'Bad file format on line 2 token 33.
Can you help?
Title: Re: Web-based MicroBrute Sequence Editor
Post by: marin_q on September 01, 2018, 09:24:43 pm: Quote from: CheBridges on August 29, 2018, 02:05:12 am
Hello everyone. This piece of software is a great idea and very useful for creating more complex sequences. However I cannot get the sequences to load into my Microbrute.
I have saved another mbseq file and pated my new sequence into this and saved the changes. From what I gathered this is the method that you advise, but I keep getting an error saying: 'Bad file format on line 2 token 33.
Can you help?

Hey I keep getting the same error... did you figure out how to solve it? thank a lot!
Title: Re: Web-based MicroBrute Sequence Editor
Post by: fazmau on February 14, 2020, 04:35:52 pm: the error is due to a final blank space, that you must to delete after pasting the sequence. After deleting it, all works!