Analogue-sequencer

hey colin,

just played with the new beta for an hour now and like the changes,  
feels a bit
quicker going from simple patterns to more complex things - that is  
cool!
what I didn't get so far is how to change between the bars other than  
using the data button, reading your notes
I assume theres another way to select/jump to edit of a bar directly

btw. while you talk about RAM usage/organistaion I would love to see  
an additional feature requested some
days ago....
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feature then where you play in some  notes into a memory buffer (i.e  
played.from an ext. keyboard)
and then insert notes from this buffer into sequentially every step
activated - its a bit like the old roland MC sequencers have worked.
you play in a small melody, then you create rhythm and lenght  
afterwords...
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I'll test this beta some more during this evening.

cheers,
henry


Am 09.04.2007 um 14:24 schrieb Colin Fraser:

>
> > Looks interesting, and I don't see any drawbacks compared to the
> > current playlist scheme (well, apart from the fact that the
> > silkscreen printing on the P3 will now be wrong...!).
>
> You can replicate anything achieveable with playlists, though if  
> you have a
> playlist with the same pattern used on a number of steps, with  
> different
> transpose values on each step, you would need to use duplicate bars to
> achieve the same thing in a v4 pattern.
> But unless you make heavy use of that, it shouldn't be a problem  
> with the
> improved flexibility of dynamic storage.
>
> > I'm sure you know this, but: you'll presumably need a
> > percentage-used
> > figure for the pattern memory at some stage...?
>
> So far there are 255 bars of storage space because I'm only using  
> single
> byte pointers to the bar storage.
> I will be extending the pointer size to 2 bytes soon, which will  
> allow the
> maximum available RAM to be used for bar storage.
> Ultimately the current P3 hardware will be able to hold at least as  
> many
> bars as there are currently patterns, possibly a few more.
> Though I do have a scheme to add memory paging on a RAM  
> daughterboard that
> would allow over 3000 bars storage.
> That would depend on demand though.
>
> Best regards,
> Colin Fraser
> Sequentix Music Systems Ltd
> http://www.sequentix.com
>
>
> 

cheers,
henry





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