Traktor Step Sequencer on Ipad 
need some more ideas.
Hey DJTT,
Lately i’ve been working on building a drum step sequencer for the Kontrol F1, unfortunately after messing around with the traktor modifiers like a rocket scientist, I ended up using Ableton (MAX) to make it work and send back MIDI notes to traktor to trigger the samples in the remix deck..
It’s all working fine but since the F1 doesn’t have pressure sensitive buttons it was a b*tch to insert the velocities in the mappings, and also building a beat was kinda slow (since my mapping doesn’t come with pre loaded patterns(like the Midi Fighter) and you can only sequence one pattern (sample) a time.
Simply said, screw thiszz..
However I did notice that when you use the ableton sequencer and use the F1 in Traktor (or any controller mapped to remix decks) the triggers do blink at the time they’re played by ableton, giving me the idea to do the sequencer on another device and use the F1 only for browsing and editing the samples.
TouchOSC which has been sitting on my iPad for years was my first solution, but it still requires Ableton (Max) to run everything. It works like a charm, it allows me to trigger all 64!! samples, unfortunately you can only play 1 sample per row a step, but it still allows you to put 3 Closed Hi-hats on the first 3 steps and a Open Hi-hat on the 4th step.
But now, after a few years of looking at the app Lemur (Liine) in the app store, I decided to purchase it, and i’m now gonna tell you why.
Lemur got internal scripts for Step sequencer and MIDI clocks (and much more) and allows you to build your own controller just like TouchOSC as many of you should know.
This allows me to make a step sequencer just perfect for traktor, without the need of ableton to run the step sequencer and also looks cooler than TouchOSC.
This is what I have in mind and currently working on.
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Step sequencer got MIDI clock receive/send options.
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BPM selector when MIDI clock receive is OFF.
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64x a 16 step sequencer
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2 sets of 4 rows with 16 steps a time on the screen.
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1 set of 4 rows represents one row of cells in the remix deck. (slot1 cell 1, slot2 cell 1 etc.)
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Each set of rows can be assigned to a row in the remix decks allowing you to have 2 rows (8 samples) on the Ipad screen a time (still keeps other rows in background).
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Mute button on every sequencer. (also allowing you to switch between sounds which are on the same same step in the same remix Slot.
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1x 16 multifader which can be assigned to 1 sequencer a time to easily enter the velocity of the steps.
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I’ll also try to make it able to store the current pattern so you can switch between 8(or so) saved patterns which can be edited at any time, but I don’t know if the internal lemur scripting will allow this.
Did I forget anything?
Does anyone have more ideas?
Please let me know what you think.
I want to make it perfect for every Lemur user.
Some screen shots and/or video’s will follow one of these days so you can see what’s going on.
Heres the link for Lemur https://liine.net/en/ the app costs about €25,- but is well worth the money.