Analogue-sequencer

Boele bows deeeeeeep for Paul and Colin!


Op 2-dec-04 om 0:27 heeft Colin f het volgende geschreven:

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>> You'll probably hate me for this but... supposing playlists worked
>> like parts do? I mean, you can play parts in series starting at the
>> first you hold down and ending at the last you hold down.
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>> If playlists worked the same way you could have the same flexible
>> interaction that would feel intuitive because it's used elsewhere. You
>> could select each step individually and it would play the pattern
>> (along with any transpositions and chg mode) but if you selected two
>> or more they would play round and round with the repeat setting coming
>> into place in the same way as parts...
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> I think I see where you're coming from Paul.
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> OK, how about we think of playlist steps as 'pattern selections', and 
> the
> current pattern selection is chosen by pressing the step keys 9 to 16 
> in
> playlist (to be renamed 'pattern selection') edit.
> Holding one step then pressing another would enable a 'pattern 
> selection
> chain', equivalent to a playlist with a length > 1.
> Each pattern selection can be thought of as having a repeat count and
> transpose setting akin to PXPos and PCReps for parts.
> The relationship between each track and its 'pattern selections' would 
> be
> much the same as the relationship between a bank and its parts.
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> There would need to be some way to assign the pattern for a particular 
> step
> without having to make that the current step, or upset the chain start 
> end
> endpoint - need to think about that one.
> The underlying data structure would remain the same, except you would 
> need
> to be able to have your playlist start on any step.
> The playlist length variable is currently a full byte but only holds a 
> value
> from 1 to 8, so this would be easy to retrofit without affecting the 
> current
> setup or any saved banks. I would make the high nybble the start 
> 'pattern
> selection', and the low nybble the end. Since the high nybbles are all 
> 0,
> and the low nybbles the playlist lengths, existing playlists would 
> translate
> perfectly into 'pattern selection chains'.
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> I hope I'm explaining this well enough - I think it may be pretty cool.
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> Cheers,
> Colin f
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