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RE: [analogue-sequencer] Poly Record feature requests

2005-12-06 by Colin f

>    Is their any way of incorporateing any of these features into your
> Poly Record?

I've been doing more work as a result poly record (though the last week has
been spent on the 'half day' task of moving to a new PC), but this has
involved tidying up loose ends rather than adding new features.

One of the things that I spotted after adding poly record was that it was
possible to lose notes when different primary and aux notes in a pattern
were set to the same note values across tied steps.
For example, if a primary note is C5, and an aux note G5, and they are tied
to a step with a primary note of G5 and the aux note C5, you get a note-off
for the two previous notes immediately after the note ons for the tied step.
This cuts both notes off - the code is only checking for the same notes in
the same position, so it doesn't see that pair of notes is the same but
swapped round.

There was also the possiblity to send multiple instances of the same note on
on a single step, by assigning the primary and aux notes the same note
value. This isn't a problem for P3, but it can upset some synths.

So I've re-written the way the sequence engine handles multiple notes.
It now supports up to 8 notes per track. You still only have one primary and
4 aux notes in a pattern, but you can redirect aux notes from other tracks
up to a maximum of 8 on each track.
Tied groups containing the same notes are handled correctly, and note-ons
are thinned so there is never more than one note on sent for a given note
number on any step.
Next on my list is re-ordering recorded notes in ascending order so the
primary note is the lowest, followed by UI to quickly set up auxes for
notes.
 
> Is their a way that we could setup the Poly Record feature to not only
> work in real time (which I love!), but also have a step input feature
> like for example the JX3P does.

That one has been suggested already, so it's on the wish list.
Time is a factor...

> Chord Memory
> Is thier any way that we could have 8 or 16 slot chord memory, that
> would memorize certain chords? Maybe some make an aux event for it, so
> you can select which chord you want with the aux event and 
> have the root
> note for that chord be selected by the note knob?

One advantage of the new multiple note handling is that it would be easy to
have a single event set multiple aux notes in one go.
But I'm not sure if it would be better to have preset chords to call up,
rather than just banging them into a specific pattern.
Presets = you end up using the same chords all the time.

Best regards,
Colin Fraser
Sequentix Music Systems Ltd
http://www.sequentix.com

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