


It’s sort of a do-it-yourself tool kit for patching up your own semi-modular step sequencer.Īs with other DIY kits, Nest is a bit of an expert system. Nest comes from Sugar Bytes, a German company known for their unusual product designs, and Nest follows that tradition. You could use it as a step sequencer, but if you do, you’ll be missing 95% of the musical possibilities. Sixteen steps, maybe a couple of extra outputs in addition to the pitch value and the gate signal, probably the ability to program tied notes, and maybe not much else. Trouble is, most of these devices are boring. These days, a new software synthesizer without a built-in step sequencer is becoming a rarity. Step sequencers are everywhere, it seems. Jim Aikin takes a walkthrough and finds nothing pedantic about patching up your own semi-modular step sequencer, in this exclusive Synth and Software review.
