I have a basic question here. I just want to make sure I’m not missing anything more efficient, so I don’t eat into my 175 patterns for each track. Sorry if this is clear in the manual and I’ve missed it! If I want to repeat a pattern X times, then have silence for Y measures (while another part plays), do I just make X copies of said pattern and then insert Y copies of a blank pattern, which is what I’m doing, or is there another way (e.g. like follow actions in Ableton)?
You can use the BRK command to repeat patterns X times.
(12-28-2020, 08:45 AM)XORadmin Wrote: [ -> ]You can use the BRK command to repeat patterns X times.
Beautiful - thank you so much!
I have a slightly modified requirement. I have a couple of patterns that repeat. So far, so easily done with the BRK command. However I want the patterns start one after the other while all of them loop.
Here an example. Let's say I have three tracks with patterns 00, 01 and 02. When I do not us repeats but sequence rows I could do it like this:
00 -- --
00 01 --
00 01 02
Is there a way to say "play 3 times and be silent the first [1|2] times"?
Kind regards,
Michael
I would use an empty pattern to fill in here. Or else you could make kind of a smart chain. I think you could play the exact patterns you show like this:
00 01 02
And you start only 00. In 00 you have the repeats and you give the command STSP to start the 2nd track. After the first iteration the 2nd track starts. There you have also your repeats and give the command that the 3rd track should start. I didn't test this now but it should work I think.
I've tried that but I seem to not have the proper incantation. I have my setup like this:
00 01 02 --
03 -- -- 05
-- -- -- --
00 has BRK 004 as FX1 and STSP 001 as FX2
01 has BRK 003 as FX1 and STSP 002 as FX2
02 has BRK 002 as FX1
03 and 05 have both BRK 007 as FX1 and BRK 104 as FX2
Patterns 00, 01 and 02 are 56 steps long
Patterns 03 and 05 are 12 steps long
I position the cursor on 00 and push START. This is what happens:
00 -- -- --
00 01 02 05
03 01 02 05
03 01 02 05
...
Do I need to have special settings for the project elsewhere? Or am I overlooking something stupid?
I'm on v1.23A with 16CV on NSA1 (v1.1) but not knowingly used anywhere (i.e. all Modular). No audio tracks either.
Kind regards,
Michael
(01-16-2021, 07:44 PM)mgd Wrote: [ -> ]I've tried that but I seem to not have the proper incantation. I have my setup like this:
00 01 02 --
03 -- -- 05
-- -- -- --
00 has BRK 004 as FX1 and STSP 001 as FX2
01 has BRK 003 as FX1 and STSP 002 as FX2
02 has BRK 002 as FX1
03 and 05 have both BRK 007 as FX1 and BRK 104 as FX2
Patterns 00, 01 and 02 are 56 steps long
Patterns 03 and 05 are 12 steps long
I position the cursor on 00 and push START. This is what happens:
00 -- -- --
00 01 02 05
03 01 02 05
03 01 02 05
...
Do I need to have special settings for the project elsewhere? Or am I overlooking something stupid?
I'm on v1.23A with 16CV on NSA1 (v1.1) but not knowingly used anywhere (i.e. all Modular). No audio tracks either.
Kind regards,
Michael
They are no special settings. I only gave you a solution for your specific question. It doesn't matter which tracktype and there is also no firmware issue with that.
New patterns start at the zero mainclock if the track was not playing. You got to consider that also with your breaks for shorter patterns.
I would generally never use this kind of abstraction if it is not really needed (like if you run out of sequencer rows), because it is always hard to see how many repeats are on several patterns and what they start etc. Also the power of the pattern launching is interfered by this as well.
If you have the full arrangement visible then you can always see what's going on.
Thank you for your answer.
After repeatedly rereading everything and especially the manual I finally understood, what went wrong. I misunderstood the explanation of STSP on page 34 of the manual. After correctly using STSP I have my sequence the way I want it.
Sorry for being stupid,
Michael