Analogue-sequencer

--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, Paul Nagle <softroom@b...> 
wrote:
hi Paul,
have you always got this site open or something? such quick 
responses..;)
> >- a way to quickly access the track mutes when in pattern- or 
> >playlist-edit mode.
 
> It's quite quick to pop in and out of edit mode.  

i know, but when editting a pattern it'd be nice to be able to just 
mute some of the sounds without having to save the pattern first. 
when i'm doing a variation on a theme, for instance. i think it'd 
also be pretty cool when used live, for buildups 'n' stuff; f*ck up a 
sequence, mute the hats & snare, randomize the sequence some more, 
mute the kick, go totally nuts with the sequence and then bring 
everything back in combination with the new 'melody'.. it's not a 
problem, but it'd be nice to have.

> Well, you can save the playlist with length of 1then update the 
length while playing. Any use?

that's what i've been doing, but i've had a situation where i want 
step 3 of the playlist to hold, and then continue on from that at a 
later point. maybe something like the 'pattern-shift' function for 
the playlist would be interesting.
 
> Part copy copies things as they are to a new part. Playlists are per
> track so you can do your part copy then select new playlist lengths 
> as you wish. 

yes but this still means you've lost your original playlists in the 
destination part. i guess i'm talking about something like an 'undo' 
function, or an 'are you sure?' confirmation before the new set of 
playlists is permanently saved to the part. this is mainly as a 
failsafe for my own stupidity; i've lost some rather cool playlists 
this way. 

> >- The possiblity to set the first step for a pattern as well the   
> >last step, without using the shift keys.
> 
> You can do this with the Skip function. Simply skip as many steps as
> you want at the start of a pattern.

good tip! hadn't thought of that yet. 

> As it is looping anyway, do the copy then mute any tracks you want.
> Audibly no difference?

i'm not quite sure i understand what you mean..i've had a situation 
where i have a 4/4 kick-playlist in part 1, a kind of 
broken/breakbeat kick-playlist in part 2, and a rather complicated 
synth-playlist in part 1 that i want to be the same in all parts, so 
i'd like to be able to just copy the synth-playlist to the other 
parts, and not take the other tracks/playlists along. again, i think 
this possibility would also be pretty cool in live usage.

> >..a 'weirdy': when you have a 16 step pattern and you set the last 
> >step, step 16, to `skip', the playlist doesn't move beyond this   
> >pattern
> Hmmm, seems to work OK here or maybe I didn't understand right.

what i mean is that (in my p3) if the last step in a pattern is set 
to skip, no matter what length the pattern is, the pattern starts 
playing when the playlist hits this pattern, but it doesn't continue 
on to the next step of the playlist, it just keeps playing this 
pattern until you edit out the 'skip' in the last step. come to think 
of it, this may be a useful creative feature, kind of like being able 
to save the 'hold' setting. :)
grtz Chiel