Doepfer SchaltWerk or Manikin Schrittmacher Sequencer ?

[tilman]

don´t know the schaltwerk, but since a week i own the schrittmacher.

this thing is quiet expensive but 100 percent what i needed.
did you read the manual from their site?
it is not very long and easy to read.

however i miss a few functions which i hope will be implemented in future updates.

all i can say is that i am realy happy with this machine. you can program 4 different sequencer lines. each of these have aight sub lines that can control note gate velocity length control .... you can change the step length of each sequence.

the radical technologies spectralis has also a very cool sequencer. certain things are far mor complex here and you can save patterns.
regarding the price the spectralis is a killer machine. but it can confuse you as well. the schrittmacher is very well structured.
you can learn all the functions in a few hours. i am glad to have both.
by the way what style of music do you prefere. as i produce techno-house stuff.



sorry i am a bit tirred right now. maybe downloading the manual is the best advice.
after reading it you maybe have a more specific question.

all i can say is it brings my analog synths to live.

cheers tilman

[lineofcontrol]

Anyone else got these or used these?

[Dubtek71]

No experience with either of the 2 machines you mentioned. Have you considered a Cirklon tho?

[BaconTastesGood]

I have a Schrittmacher and it's pretty awesome. You can have 8 separate 'lines' running and select between 4 different sequences, and each line can control things like note, gate, length, or arbitrary controller values (e.g. cutoff).

Solidly built, and horrendously difficult to find in the US -- I've never actually seen one for sale in the US except once.

My only complaint with is that it has only two MIDI outs, but it's not that big a deal.

I'm on the list for a Cirklon, and I'm on the fence as to whether I'll sell the Schrittmacher once I get the Cirklon. I think they complement each other very well.

[droolmaster0]

I've used most of the available sequencers, and the schrittmacher is my favorite midi only step sequencer. I don't require song functionality, so that's not an issue for me. The schrittmacher will also require midi to cv interfacing, if you're controlling cv/gate gear.

All in all, while you can't construct the type of algorithmic conditions that you can on the Cirklon, the Schrittmacher is pretty much my favorite. There is lots of modulation capability, and the timing is extremely flexible - in some ways more so than the Cirklon. Each step can individually have lengths of 1 click (as I recall) up to 16 beats. These can be modulated, along with direction and midi channel (!), so one can deviate very far from beat based music into strange patterns that never repeat. The display is much nicer (imo) than the cirklon, and to set up complex sequences is much more efficient (at least the way that I work) than the Cirklon. I didn't have any midi gear for awhile, and so I sold my Schrittmacher, but that's the one I'll purchase again. There is simply no real comparison between it and something like the Spectralis in terms of complex sequencing. The Spectralis doesn't even allow intertrack modulation...

[Parametex]

I have been using of the above sequencers and find the Schaltwerk is above and beyond the schrittmacher. It is just beautiful to have such a immediate control over all the pattern data of every track. It is really as close as it come playing live with a sequencer.

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[tilman]

I had the Schrittmacher and sold it. For me it was too limited and expensive. (No Pattern Changing - different concept) I think they have never updated the Schrittmacher OS. (Did they?)
Since a few month I found out about the sequentix cirklon! Lots of threads about it. This is the Stepsequencer!
I hope mine will arrive soon.

Edit" Ha! Just saw how old this thread is and that I wrote the second post. :-) Frightening... well I sold the Spectralis and the Schrittmacher :-)"


Cheers,
Tilman