Analogue-sequencer

> in the early morning dreamstate this morning, i dreamed up what 
seems to
> be be a nice new feature... in play and playlist mode, the note 
knobs
> could control track volume (midi cc#7), and the upper could 
control pan
> (for which i forget the cc#). would this be useful to anyone else? 

There is a bit of a problem with this...
If you were to set up your mix on the knobs in playmode, then go 
into pattern edit, and move them all about, you would have things 
jumping around when you went back to play mode and tried to make a 
subtle volume or pan change. I would need to implement a pass-thru 
mode for the knobs. This might use up more space than is left, as 
might the controller transmit code...

> if you have a pattern that is 8 steps in length
> and one that is 7 steps in length, they would both loop at the same
> temporal time...
> ... is there already a way to do this? or would this be
> possible to do? if so, would it require too much code-heavy 
calculation?
> this is not a must have for me, more like a funky-to-have, heh...

To do this would need some new, weird tbase values.
Each tbase has an underlying number of clock pulses that each step 
lasts for. For Tbase 16, each step is 12 ticks. So an 8 step pattern 
at Tbase 16 is 96 ticks long.
96 divided by 7 (to make the pattern the same length) would need 
each step to be 13.7 ticks long. Obviously that's not possible. But 
by rounding off the number of ticks to 14, and using gbar to resync 
the pattern, it might be close enough for whatever kind of f#cked up 
rock'n'roll you're trying to make ;-)
There is no technical reason why I couldn't add an event that would 
allow you to set the number of ticks per step directly at the start 
of the pattern, over-riding the normal Tbase values.
You'd be responsible for any muscular damage inflicted upon people 
trying to dance to your music though.

Cheers,
Colin f