I believe once upon a time there were some tips for avoiding or fixing seqencer hesitation in the VFX SD. Does anyone know where that was, or what the tips were?
I don't often use my VFX SD's sequencer, so I'm not very familiar with it. I was fooling with it last night, and I found it very frustrating.
I recently watched this video, and found it inspirational.
Sequencing 1983 style with Jupiter-8, LinnDrum, and MSQ-700
I wondered how that would work with the devices I have. So I made a simple 4 bar sequence; If I recall correctly, I used the ITS-A-SYNTH and SYNTH BASS sounds from the ROM bank.
Somehow, I believe after running a quantize on one of the tracks, the sequencer started having a brief pause between loops of this single sequence. It was just looping the same sequence, so no effects changes were involved.
I thought one explanation offered for this was that the length of notes sometimes extended over the end of the sequence, so I tried editing the duration of both tracks to make them shorter, but still no improvement. I ended up having to start from scratch again.
I *swear* that somebody once posted some tips to get rid of such pauses, but I can't find that now.
My other frustrations included quantization not doing what I wanted, pulling some notes to the wrong position; maybe I'm just that bad of a player. And not remembering how to mute tracks at certain steps of a song, even though I seemed to recall you could do it; I first found the possibility of using mixdown mode for a song, but that wasn't really doing the right thing for me, and step editing mixdown volume in a song track doesn't seem to work for me, either. Looking deeper in the manual today, what I really wanted was the TRACK button in the song step editor...
(Even though I've owned the VFX and VFX-SD for a very long time, my usual use is either practicing or playing my part with a band, so no sequencing or recording at all. And when I do any sort of recording, it's usually using Apple Logic Pro X, and I use that mostly to record audio files, not usually MIDI.)
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