If you don’t have the time to watch the Video Tutorial, you can also check out the Graphical Multi‑Track Song Arranger (G-Stomper Producer) chapter in the User Manual.

If you don’t have the time to watch the Video Tutorial, you can also check out the Timing & Measure chapter in the User Manual.

Split a Selection of Song Events

Make sure that “Edit” is activated in the sidebar. Select the Song Events you want to split.

Then set the Edit Cursor to the position where you want to split the Song Events. To move Edit Cursor, activate the “MRK + Cursor” mode in the sidebar, and then simply drag its thumb in the center.

Now long press the “Edit” button in the sidebar to show up the extended Edit menu.

Then choose “Split selected Events” from the menu.

 
This splits the selected Song Events at the Edit Cursor position.

For further details on how to use the Song Arranger Editor, see Chapter Graphical Multi-Track Song Arranger in the User Manual or watch the Video Tutorial.

Song Event Colorization

Song Events that refer to Patterns without directly audible output (Patterns without a Trigger/Note sequence) now have a slightly different color to make it easier to visually distinguish Song Elements with directly audible output (e.g. Patterns with a drum sequence).

For further details on how to use the Song Arranger Editor, see Chapter Graphical Multi-Track Song Arranger in the User Manual or watch the Video Tutorial.

In addition to the new Editor Features, G-Stomper Producer 1.1.2.7 includes a number of improvements and bugfixes. You can review the full list of changes in the release notes.

G-Stomper Producer 1.1.2.7 is now available on Google Play.

Make sure that you’re in Song Operation, and then Press Record to start a new Song recording session.

Note that the Record button turns permanently on while the Play button starts flashing. This means your recording session is prepared in paused state.

Also note that when you start a new Song Arranger recording session (recording session in Song Mode) from stopped sequencer, the recording session is initially prepared in paused state and all track sequencers remain in stopped state.

If you want certain Track Sequencers to start when the recording session is actually started, you must now tap the desired Pattern Slots of these Track Sequencer to prepare them in paused state (or tap a Scene Slot to prepare an entire Scene). A paused Track Pattern Slot flashes 4 times per second.

Once you have all desired Track Sequencers are prepared, tap ‘Record’ again (or ‘Play’) to start the actual Song Arranger recording session. 

While the sequencer is in paused state, tap the Track Pattern Slots that you want to start right at the beginning of the recording session, so that these switch from “stopped” to “paused” state. A paused Track Pattern Slot flashes 4 times per second.

Now, while the sequencer is running and recording, tap some of the Track Pattern Slots to switch between Patterns, like you would do in a normal live session. Every executed Pattern Change is recorded to the Song arrangement, or in other words, every Pattern Change creates a Song Event in the Song Arrangement. As a matter of course, you can also start or stop certain Track Sequencers during the recording session.

For further details on how to use the Track Pattern Sets, see Chapter Track Pattern Sets & Scene Set in the User Manual or watch the Video Tutorial.

Finally, press Stop to end the recording session.

You can now switch to the Song Arranger Editor to verify or edit your recorded Song Arrangement.

For further details on how to use the Song Arranger Editor, see Chapter Graphical Multi-Track Song Arranger in the User Manual or watch the Video Tutorial.

In addition to the Song Arranger Recording, G-Stomper Producer 1.1.2.4 includes a number of improvements and bugfixes. You can review the full list of changes in the release notes.

G-Stomper Producer 1.1.2.4 is now available on Google Play.

The latest update of the G-Stomper Product Line is the second and last part of a major overhaul of the Timing & Measure section.

Improved Time Signature Wizard

The Time Signature Wizard offers a number of predefined musical Time Signatures (such as 3/4, 5/4, 12/8, etc.) to choose from. All you have to do is to select a Time Signature, and the Wizard automatically assigns the correct settings for you.

The Time Signature display on the other hand shows the musical Time Signature that corresponds with the Step Timing, the Steps per Bar, and the Length in Bars. To show you the Time Signature interpretation that makes the most sense, it uses a combination of tradition, common usage, and the technical specification.

Depending on the used app, the Time Signature Wizard/Display might appear slightly different.

G-Stomper Studio, G-Stomper Rhythm, G-Stomper VA-Beast:

G-Stomper Producer:

12 Step Timings

The Step Timing defines the Note value (duration) of each Step.

8 > 2 Steps per Beat, 1 Step = 8th Note
8T > 3 Steps per Beat, 1 Step = 12th Note = 8th Note Triplet
16 > 4 Steps per Beat, 1 Step = 16th Note
16Q > 5 Steps per Beat, 1 Step = 20th Note = 16th Note Quintuplet
16T > 6 Steps per Beat, 1 Step = 24th Note = 16th Note Triplet
16S > 7 Steps per Beat, 1 Step = 28th Note = 16th Note Septuplet
32 > 8 Steps per Beat, 1 Step = 32nd Note
32N > 9 Steps per Beat, 1 Step = 36th Note = 32nd Note Nonuplet
32Q > 10 Steps per Beat, 1 Step = 40th Note = 32nd Note Quintuplet
32U > 11 Steps per Beat, 1 Step = 44th Note = 32nd Note Undecuplet
32T > 12 Steps per Beat, 1 Step = 48th Note = 32nd Note Triplet
64 > 16 Steps per Beat, 1 Step = 64th Note

Changing the Step Timing automatically changes the available number of Swing affected
Steps in the Swing/Shuffle controls.

Up to 12 Swing affected Steps per Beat

The Swing affected Steps allow you to customize the Swing Quantization.
By default (with Step Timing = 16th), every 2nd and 4th Step is affected by the Swing, which is in fact a classic Shuffle. You can turn the 2nd, 3rd, 4th Step ON/OFF to change the Swing affected Steps.

The available number of Swing affected Steps depends on the selected Step Timing.

8 > 2nd
8T > 2nd – 3rd
16 > 2nd – 4th
16Q > 2nd – 5th
16T > 2nd – 6th
16S > 2nd – 7th
32 > 2nd – 8th
32N > 2nd – 9th
32Q > 2nd – 10th
32U > 2nd – 11th
32T > 2nd – 12th
64 > 2nd – 8th (duplicated on 9th – 16th)

Updated User Manual

Be sure to check out the updated chapters Timing & Measure and User Samples in the User Manual.

See the full list of changes in the release notes

G-Stomper Producer 1.1.1.0
G-Stomper Studio 5.8.1.0
G-Stomper Rhythm 5.8.1.0
G-Stomper VA-Beast Synthesizer 5.8.1.0

The updated apps are now available on Google Play.

If you don’t have the time to watch the Video Tutorial, you can also check out the Track Pattern Sets & Scene Set (G-Stomper Producer) chapter in the User Manual.

A few weeks ago, we have released G-Stomper Producer 1.0, a brand new music production app for Android. G-Stomper Producer is based on the well known audio engine of G-Stomper Studio, but is more focused on production, and therefore works different in many aspects. This article gives you a short roundup about its key features and the differences to G-Stomper Studio.

What is G-Stomper Producer?

G-Stomper Producer is a fast and flexible Music Sequencer and Digital Audio Workstation, designed for use in live performance as well as for production. It comes with a powerful Drum Sampler, a polyphonic and multi-timbral Virtual Analog Performance Synthesizer (VA-Beast), Sounds, Effects, Sequencers, Pads and Keyboards, a graphical Multi-Track Song Arranger, and many other creative features that help you to create your own music.

Jam live, improvise and let the music happen spontaneously, play patterns of different lengths/quantizations, simultaneously and in any combination, without having to stop the sequencer at any time, and finally write your creation down as a Song.

G-Stomper Producer is the answer to zillions of feature requests over the last 6 years that have been technically impossible to be integrated in G-Stomper Studio.

G-Stomper Producer comes 1) with a new, intuitive navigation concept, 2) with independent timing and measurements per track, and 3) with a brand new multi-track song arranger.

Here are the core differences between G-Stomper Studio (GSS) and G-Stomper Producer (GSP):

G-Stomper Studio

• 1 Sequencer that can play one Pattern (and timing) at a time
• A pattern contains up to 36 tracks, which are all bound to it and to the surrounding sequencer (that’s the old hardware groovebox way).
• With this setup, it’s technically impossible to arrange a song track by track.

G-Stomper Producer

• 1 Global Sequencer
• Up to 39 Track Sequencers (each with its own patterns and timing)
• So you can mix for example a kick drum at 4/4 with a triplet high hat at 5/8, each with totally independent timing (including swing).
• The tempo/bpm of the particular track sequencers is always synced with the global sequencer, but the step timing, swing, and pattern measurement can be different per track.
• As everything is split into tracks on sequencer base, you’ll be able to arrange your songs track by track.

For direct feature comparison, please check out our Product Comparison Chart.

Scenes

Scenes in GSP are used as a quick access of multiple track patterns at once.
In theory, you can see a GSP Scene as something similar to a GSS Pattern, just with totally loosely coupled and independent tracks.

Toolbars

Other than in the G-Stomper Studio, the toolbar on top is fixed, it won’t change when the main content changes. This means you’ll always have direct access to the main menu, the setup menu, the project display, and other common functions. In addition to the toolbar on top, you have a sidebar at the left side.

Long pressable buttons

As known from G-Stomper Studio, long pressable buttons have a little triangle mark in the upper left corner. So if you see such buttons, just try to long press them.

Main Mixer

When you start the app, you’ll always be dropped at the Main Mixer.

The mixer is the place where you (beside all around mixing, fx, master, etc.) have access to all per Track Pattern Sets and the surrounding Scenes. Other than in G-Stomper Studio, where you have one single set of patterns, G-Stomper Producer provides a set of 64 Patterns per Track. In other words, you are able to create all poly-rhythms you ever dreamed of, as G-Stomper Producer allows an individual timing per track (pattern measurement, step timing, swing, quantization). To dive into the detail modules of a particular track, press one of the 4 buttons at the bottom of the mixer channel.

Detail Pages

Each track provides a set of detail pages such as the Drum Machine, Note Grid, Timing & Measure, or the VA-Beast Synthesizer.

While in the detail modules, you’ll get a dedicated sidebar (left side by default) to switch between the different detail pages, and to access the track menu (if any), Solo, Mute, etc.

Live Track Pattern Arranger

On top of each mixer channel (incl. Temp Track, FX Track, and Master Track) you can toggle the channel/track between mix and pattern.

Short press PTRN to switch to the Live Track Pattern Arranger of a particular track, long press PTRN to switch all tracks to the Live Pattern Arranger. Short or long press MIX to get back to the mix channel view.

Note: To select another pattern while in a detail view (like the main drum machine for example) without having to navigate back to the mixer, long press the Mixer button in the Detail Sidebar (this will open the Quick Pattern Selector).

Live Scene Arranger

The Live Scene arranger is located on the last page of the mixer. You can scroll through the pages in use of the >> and << buttons in the sidebar.

A Scene is a reference to a collection of “Track Patterns”, all of the same pattern slot. If you press A-02 in the scene arranger, then on all tracks, A-02 will be selected. When you come from G-Stomper Studio, then a G-Stomper Producer Scene is the closest thing to a known G-Stomper Studio Pattern. Scenes are part of the surrounding project, but can also be saved and loaded separately if required. For example, you can also import a single G-Stomper Studio/Rhythm/VA-Beast Pattern as a Scene.

Note: To select another Scene while in a detail view (like the main drum machine for example) without having to navigate back to the mixer, long press the Main Menu button in the Toolbar on top (this will open the Quick Scene Selector).

Multi-Track Song Arranger

The new Multi-Track Song Arranger is one of the core elements in G-Stomper Producer. It was the most requested feature over the last few years and one of the reasons why we have created this new app.

With the “Song Arranger/Mixer” button at right side of the Project Display (in the toolbar on top), you can toggle between the Mixer and Song Arranger view. Please take note that switching to the Song Arranger view does not automatically switch to Song operation as well. To toggle between Pattern and Song operation, either long press the “Song Arranger/Mixer” button or simply short press the “Pattern/Song” area on the Project Display.

In the Song Arranger view, use the “+” and “-” buttons to zoom the grid in or out (short press for horizontal zoom, long press for vertical zoom). Use the scrollbars at the bottom and right side as well as the track list at the left side to scroll freely in the Song Arrangement. By default, the markers snap in to every “global quantum” when you move them. You can toggle the snap in between beat, global quantum, and virtual quantum. The global quantum as well as the virtual quantum can be changed by clicking the quantum display in the lower right corner of the Song Arranger.

The Scale at the bottom of the Song Arranger grid shows the number of global quantum cycles at the particular positions, which matches with the first number of the timing information in the info display on top. You can optionally activate vertical grid lines in the Song Arranger grid. Just click the quantum display in the lower right corner to show up the quantum settings, and then activate the “Activate Quantum Grid Lines” checkbox.

The editor should be pretty much self-explaining.

Touch handling in Edit/Resize mode:

• Short Click event: Select/Deselect event
• Short Click empty space: Add Event (default size = global quantum, can be changed by clicking the project display on top)
• Long Click event: Change selected event(s) pattern
• Long Click empty space: Add Events for the complete Scene (default size = global quantum, can be changed by clicking the project display on top)
• Tap and drag Event: Move/Resize (depending on the selected mode)

Multi Select modes (sidebar):

• OFF: Select one single Event
• ON: Select multiple Events by clicking them one by one
• ON-Quick-Select (yellow border): Select multiple Events by swiping over them.

Long press the Multi Select button to show up an extended menu where you can select all events at once for example.

Note: The ON-Quick-Select mode deactivates itself as soon as you release your finger from the screen. So in other words, you turn this special selection mode on, then you swipe over the events you want to select, then release your finger and the Multi Select mode gets automatically changed to ON. Then you can just move or resize the selected events without any further clicks in between.

Copy, Paste, Delete (sidebar)
These buttons do exactly what they say, copy, paste and delete Song events. Copy and delete operations are always directly related to a selection of Song Events, while paste operations are related to previously copied Song Events.

Long press the Copy, Paste, and Delete buttons to show up their extended menu with more specific operations.

Event overlapping error detection:
The Song Arranger can visually and technically overlap Song Events in the same Track. This is required to be able to place Song Events intuitively, move them around, resize them, and so on. It’s important to know, that you can overlap Song Events of the same Track in the UI, and you can even properly save Projects that contain Song Event overlaps. But the Sequencer cannot handle overlaps. In other words, the Sequencer of a particular Track can always play only one of its Patterns at a time. Therefore such overlaps are highlighted in red color, so that you can find them easily and fix them.

Project Display

The Project Display in the toolbar on top provides (beside to the project name and the RAM usage) a numeric and graphical interpretation of the global phase. The global phase shows the global timing, which surrounds all track sequencers. The global timing is required (as G-Stomper Producer offers an individual timing per track) to keep all track sequencers in sync and to organize the song structure. Each track sequencer gets automatically synchronized with the global timing. To change the global quantum (the number of beats per global loop cycle), short press the project display (or likewise long press the play button).

Hidden Features

• Short press the project display in the toolbar on top to show up the quick sequencer setup, where you can change the tempo, set the global Quantum, and setup Ableton Link.
• Long press the project display in the toolbar on top to force a re-sync of the phase between the different tracks/sequencers (this might occur in some situations, but ONLY if NOT synchronized with Ableton Link; Ableton Link forces the phase automatically).
• Short press the Song/Pattern operation button inside the project display to toggle between Pattern and Song operation (same can be done by long pressing the song arranger button right beside the display).

G-Stomper Studio, Rhythm and VA-Beast Files

As a matter of course, G-Stomper Producer imports all kind of files from other G-Stomper apps, such as G-Stomper Studio Pattern Sets, Sound Sets, Patterns, VA-Beast Presets, and more.

G-Stomper Producer – Quick Start Guide

If you don’t have the time to watch the Video Tutorial, you can also check out the Quick Start Guide chapter in the User Manual.

If you don’t have the time to watch the Video Tutorial, you can also check out the Quick Start Guide chapter in the User Manual.

If you don’t have the time to watch the Video Tutorial, you can also check out the Live Recording chapter in the User Manual.

As of today, G-Stomper Producer is available for early access.

Where to download the Pre-Release?

• G-Stomper Producer DEMO (free)
• G-Stomper Producer (full version)

Demo restrictions: 12 Sampler Tracks, 5 Synthesizer Tracks, Limited Load/Save and Export functionality

All further details in the official BETA Info.