On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 05:07:55 -0000, "turbotron69"
<turbotron69@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I´ve been reading the cool fast guide,I´m having mastered palylist and parts
>yet, I still find them confusing..
Ah. Been there... 8)
>I knew that playlist were as a track on the 909,when you chain your patterns to
>do " a song" But if parts are the same... What is the difference?
Parts aren't the same because each part contains the mute and unmute
settings for all 8 tracks, plus the FTS setting, Global bar etc.
Playlists are strings of patterns on each individual track - and there
may be different playlists in each part, which is cool.
One example of what you might do is create a bunch of patterns on
several tracks in Part1. Use the Part Copy feature to copy this to
Part 2. The two are now identical of course. Then enter Playlist edit
for one of your tracks and select a different pattern to be played by
that track. Just that track, the other tracks remain the same. Now
when you select each part you hear that one track doing something
different. You can obviously make changes to the playlists on all
tracks and then toggle between the parts giving an instant dramatic
change to multiple tracks - way more than you could do manually. Then
you can get the parts to play automatically in order for highly
complex changes - if you wish. Or you could just use Part transpose to
transpose all 8 tracks at once - remember a playlist transpose only
transposes one pattern on one track at once.
>I still don´t know what is the purpose of the repeat option on the playlist.If you
>program as on the 909 a track or song (whatever you want to call them) you
>can do it " on the fly" or pressing the pattern as timesyou want to be
>repeteated,so.. Why this feature?
You have 8 tracks and can pre-program the playlist of each track to
repeat specific patterns in a playlist, transpose them etc. You can
place the same pattern several times in the same playlist but with
different transpositions.
>I guess that I lost something from the beggining.. there was some clues on the
>C3PO files,but his proper London accent was very hard to capture for a guy
>with a cheap "Georgia" kind of english as myself,sorry!
Proper London accent? Wow, I must hear these Star Wars excerpts. Most
Americans think my Lancashire accent sounds Australian... 8-)
>Another question, I have done playlists just with one pattern to transpose
>them quick and hear how do they fit with my drum patterns,but I don´t know
>how to change the selected pattern to just loop another one. Any help
>please?
Select the pattern for each playlist step using the keys 1-x (x
depends on your memory config - I use 12 banks so x=4 patterns max).
To keep on a specific step, use the F1 hold key.
I think Colin is possibly considering a Playlist revamp though...
Paul
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