A waste of money and lifetime spent on the Keystep pro.
Not understandable at any point that Arturia is selling a piece of gear that is not working properly at all and that you keep selling it with good consciousness even you know that it is not working at all.
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Hi @FlowCheck and welcome to our Sound Explorers community!
Thatās a shame you feel that way as there are MANY happy and satisfied users of the KSP.
What issues exactly do you have with it?
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Really would like to know what problems you encounteredā¦?
And also what improvementsā¦? Because yeah, a vendor that sells hardware nowadays should be committed to improve it as itās simply part of the āvalue propositionā.
When I connect the KSP and/or BSP to the Analog Lab software that comes with it (as advertised) and these not-so-cheap controllers arenāt recognized as Arturiaās family members and therefore arenāt auto-mapped, then thatās definitely a bad signalā¦ and yes, for me the first -1. Of course I could do it myselfā¦ but WHY?!
But then again, I find working with both devices a breeze compared to a lot of controllers without sequencers. And, some limitations I experience as inspirational (like the sequencing on Elektron boxes instead of a DAW).
And yes, some improvements could and should be madeā¦ those are mentioned before. So I hope Arturia isnāt too much on the NI strategy train and is willing to put some effort in this product lineā¦
BTW: a better integration with Analog Lab will also (re)boost sales on both sides of the chainā¦ default mappings + mimicking the sequencers on screen (like the TR-8S software does) 
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I already had many exchanges with the support, who was friendly but couldnāt help, but telling me that updates require time.
Been in touch since Dec 2021!!!
But here you go ( i didnāt mention stuck midi notes, the need to switch the keystep off when it fets stuck - on and on.)
Please check the forum for all the bugs and please donāt tell me about the happy customers.
Below one of the many problems which i already walked through with the support.
use KSP as sequencer send pitch & gate to my eurorack,
Gate is V-Trigger 5 Volt, Pitch is 1 V/Oct.
Voice 1 sends gates when used as āDrumā but no gate and pitch when used as Sequencer.
Voice 2-4 have been working fine, but now they just send gate once in a while and no more pitch - or super high notes.
Even more strange: f.e.when patching gate from Track 3 to the eurorack & then hitting the keyboard, nothing happens, but when hitting keyboard via Track 2 which is NOT patched at all , Track 3 sends random gate. KSP is only used within my studio. Cables all checked.
Hello again @matjones
As you asked for the problems me and others have encountered with KSP, you maybe have any news / feedback, a little hint from your developers when there might be an update coming or if the development of the KSP simply came to an end ?
Hi @FlowCheck
I am afraid i cannot tell you that.
You see, all of us moderators are kept in a dark basement at ChĆ¢teaux Arturia and Monsieur Arturia punishes us by beating us with stale baguettes and putting Edith Piaf songs on a loop at full volume for days on end if we do anything we are not supposed to.
You wouldnāt want to make us suffer any more would you?
The last time it happened @VFertorandez was hospitalised for a month and has only just recovered. 
Truth is we do not know and things like this are announced in our Newsletter.
HTH!
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Hi , After reading this , getting a new forum didnāt change anything about the attitude of Arturia in regard of its communityā¦
I still see Basic feature request ignored , a lot of trouble, freeze and bug just by changing manually the āsceneā.
After year of using KSP , i can conclude that it is not a reliable controller for live performance ā¦ Simple action can go wrong with this instrument.
Iām very sad to see nothing has changedā¦ Arturia have a great community of user and showed them nothing but ignorance ā¦
KSP was my first product from arturia and will be the only one and last ā¦
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Hello.
I can confirm that something is ongoing for the KSP, and I hope it will help you guys feel better using this nice sequencer.
Cheers !
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For me thatās enough just knowing itās not forgotten and still cared about.
Hopefully youāre focusing on the right things.
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Thatās such good news
Itās got such great potential
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Iām not holding my breathā¦ I got the reply that they are working on āsomethingā in 2022ā¦ and it is almost 2024 now. Welpā¦
But of course Iām ready to be surprised.
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Well, I hope this isnāt just lip-speak. Too many times in the past have I seen that happen.
The KSP feels like an child abandoned in the L.A. aquaduct network. SOOO many possibilities, but ultimately limited by implementation; which turns out to be ātoo hard to fix.ā
For the love of monkeys tho!! I hope this isnāt just talk.
And I, for one, PARTICULARLY hope the KSP will get with the 90s and record ALL MIDI DATA!!
Weāre talking freakin kilobytes here. Thatās all MIDI data needs. Itās mostly 8-bit. My mid-90s Roland Trinity can record more MIDI data in less RAM than t he KSP.
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Yeah, keen to see what you implement
Iād love to see streamlined workflow for midi routingā¦
thereās currently a few reasonably straight forward setups that become headaches to implement
eg. routing between a synth with a built in keyboard
or a multi-timbral synth plus some single channel synths,
things can get rather clunky there
eg. Iād love to choose if a track is sent out both midi ports + the USB port
or just 1 of them. (Iād love my virus on port 2, and mono synths etc on port 1, without having to disable channels on my virus)
Iād also be a fan of some control messages to and from the KSP
even if it is sysex
ways to change which track is in focus, or what mode that track is in (seq or arp)ā¦ maybe remotely turning on steps? maybe thatās going too far
But switching track focus or sending a message when I switch track focus on the unit, would really streamline the ergonomics of my setup.
eg, I could have a button that changes the currently selected part on my virus while simultaneously selecting the appropriate sequencer track on the KSP. Otherwise, itās very cumbersome or easy to make mistakes with this in the moment, and that is kinda terrifying when considering the context of a gig.
Iād love 5 CCās per track of sequencing if thereās a way the hardware can support that.
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eg. someone suggested an āout+thruā option
or some other way to control what midi messages is forwarded to the synth.
If you play around with this stuff, Iām confident youāll see where it can get frustrating.
Turning Midi Local to Off, causes problems of parameter knobs not working on a synth, leaving it on, causes duplicate notes and duplicate commands for the parameters you are sequencing.
It really sucks you out of the moment when you have to start working around this kind of thing. But I feel, with a bit more thought and development, this could all be far more user friendly and can really flourish as the weapon of a creative tool that it certainly has the potential to be <3
I use reason and Iād really like the ksp tap tempo to control the daws tap tempo whist not in play mode.
Also a latch mode for drums. So I could say split a trigger in to 2 hits
May be somebody reads this.
They just launched a new firmware update - 2.5.14
Also, thanks for the update.
Where are you seeing that? Itās not showing up in ASC and Iāve received no emails about it.
EDIT: Okay, found it. Had to go to the Arturia Downloads and Support page.
At first I was going to say itās rather odd to release this firmware update with no announcement. But now, seeing whatās in it, I can understand. Not bloody much really.
At least we can send program change now, and have transpose latch.
Other than that tho? EXTREMELY unimpressed and am wondering what the hell took so long to release this update, considering how little is in it.
Not to be unappreciative, but this is like the least possible effort was put into it. Just to appease us. Makes me think even moreso that the KSP is being shuffled off into the corner to be forgotten. It SHOULD and damn well could be a flagship product. I do not understand why theyāre treating it like an unwanted step-child.
How about recording ALL parameters, not just velocity. Aftertouch, pitch bend, and mod wheel are pretty freakin essential to record. Seriously. And weāre literally talking kilobytes here for that data. 90s synths can record all that and more, so why not the KSP? I can record it from my KSP into my freakin Korg Trinity. But not on the KSP itself. Cāmon, seriously. How was recording those even left out in the first place? Was the KSP designed by engineers rather than musicians?
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