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RE: [analogue-sequencer] Re: v4.0

2009-05-31 by Colin Fraser

> > I am still struggling a bit though...I have created
> > 5 parts (which I assume are analogous to parts in a song
> > i.e. intro, verse, chorus, mid8 etc) but I cant work out how
> > to create these parts into a song i.e. Part1, Part2, Part3,
> > Part4, Part2, Part3, Part 4, Part 5, Part4. Am I getting it
> > wrong, I am assuming banks are like songs. Please note I
> > have tried the part chain but this doesnt work as the P3
> > assumes that the parts are a single bar in length. 
> 
> 
> Try looking at the additional part pages where you'll find 
> part repeat, global bar length, transpose and so on. This is 
> the same as before: if you have a track with long patterns, 
> you'll need to extend the part in a chain by a combination of 
> global bar length and/or part repeat. I do it manually, usually. 
> There was once talk of a Track GLobal Bar and a Pattern 
> Global Bar, separate for just such malarkey but I'll leave 
> the maestro to illuminate on this.

Within limits, part chains can give you a fairly long song structure, but P3
wasn't designed to be used as a linear sequencer of whole pieces.
So the example song structure you gave would need a degree of manual
control, or 'performance' as it used to be known ;-)

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

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