Analogue-sequencer

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> > Well, I had thought that what this meant was that the 'entire pattern' was 
> > determined by when it reached the last step in the pattern. But it isn't. 
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> It can't be - you might have skipped the last step, so it would never reach 
> it. 
Hmmm - I thought about this, and I still think that this would be an attractive option - i.e. to determine one repeat by whether the sequence had reached the last step. It is up to me to program the pattern so that it reaches the last step. If not, then it will never go beyond that one iteration of the pattern. The Polymorph manual even warns you that this is a possibility with their various triggering options - that it is up to you to avoid a sequence never being triggered.
I really think that it would be great to program a pattern that takes its own damn time getting to then end, and when it finally does, it moves on. In order for it to work properly in the example you bring up, you'd have to define the pattern level last step to be the ACTUAL last step - instead of, e.g. step 16 which is always skipped.
Reading back over it, I'm still not sure I understand your (Colin's) explanation of how one repeat is determined exactly, but it seems to me that the sequence could move on before an elaborate pattern of steps is completed, which somehow seems wrong to me. It forces you to avoid chaining the pattern in a playlist (I think) if you want it to play all the way through.

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