Drums come to Condukt
Behold the new Drum sequencer: an XOX-style trig grid for laying down beats across your hardware (and Condukt Poly). Tap out a pattern, set the velocity of each hit, stretch tracks to different lengths, and drop in Euclidean fills without losing the steps you placed by hand.
Here's how it works.
A trig grid, built like the Arpeggiator
Each track is a row of 16 steps with its own note. Swipe across the grid to toggle steps on and off, multitouch, so you can lay down a few tracks at once. There's a paint-mode button that locks to your first-touch direction, the same gesture you already know from the Arpeggiator: start a stroke and it keeps painting (or erasing) as you drag, or do the opposite and steps will toggle as you swipe over them.
Add it from the control picker, the quick-add toolbar, or the editor's size picker. It comes in a range of sizes, from 3x1 up to 3x3 and 4x1 up to 4x3, so it fits whether you want one track or a full kit.
Track instruments
Each track carries its own instrument and channel override and its own note value, so one Drums control can drive a kick on one synth, a snare on another, and a hat on a third. Not sure of the note? Tap "Listen" in the track's settings and play the pad or key you want on your hardware. Condukt grabs the note straight from the MIDI bus.
Dial in velocity
The Vel slider at the bottom sets the velocity newly placed steps adopt, and that velocity drives each step's fill opacity. Louder hits read brighter, ghost notes are faint, so the dynamics of a pattern are visible across the whole grid at a glance. A small LED capsule under each step shows whether it's on or off, independent of how hard it hits, so a quiet step still reads as active.
Lots of room
A track can span 1 to 4 pages, and each page shows as its own row. More importantly, every track loops over its own length. The limit on how many pages and tracks you can have at once is only determined by how large your placed Drums control is.
Euclidean fills that don't wipe your work
Toggle Euclidean mode and each track gets a persistent, non-destructive Euclidean layer on top of your manual steps. Tap to add or remove hits, swipe to rotate the pattern (it follows your finger), and the steps you placed by hand stay put underneath. Re-enter any time to nudge it. It's a fast way to find a groove, then drop back to normal view, your manually placed steps stay there.
Euclidean steps show an outline on step LED strip, to help you visualize which steps are manually placed and which are being triggered by a Euclidean sequence.
It plays with everything
Like every control in Condukt, a Drums sequencer saves with the board and comes back exactly as you set it. It supports recall snapshots, board export and import with channel remapping, surface-wide play and stop-all, and external MIDI transport.
And it records. The Recorder captures all of your drum tracks at once, and you can loop that take in the Recorder mid-performance, which is a genuinely fun way to build up a groove and play over it. You can even save it later as a .MID file.
Beat it
The Drum sequencer is in the 1.4 beta now alongside Painter. It's new, so tell us how the grid and the Euclidean gestures feel for you.