Analogue-sequencer

I got some "how to" questions here. I got a way to work around these by 
using playlist and making different parts. The question is can these 
things be done without using "duplicated" parts?

Let's say I've got a track playing and wanted an Aux event  to start 
after the track looped for 2 rounds. How do you guys do this?
In my case, got a CC on Aux D and turned the accumulator on. I want the 
accumulator to be turned on after a while, not at start.

Got a track with notes on position 1,2 &3
I want following options:
Note 1 on
Note 1 and 3 on
Note 1,2&3 on
If try this  with a random function I get some combinations I don't 
like. What's the work around here?

When  using a knob to alter a CC number, setting up takes some time. You 
have to set the knob number and the CC number on each step.  Is there an 
easy way  for doing this?

Sorry if some of these questions have been addressed before, but I 
really hate the Yahoo search stuff....

Thanx,

-- 
Tom Adam
The Big Ear
http://users.pandora.be/the-big-ear/
Check out the download section!

> Let's say I've got a track playing and wanted an Aux event  to start 
> after the track looped for 2 rounds. How do you guys do this?
> In my case, got a CC on Aux D and turned the accumulator on. 
> I want the 
> accumulator to be turned on after a while, not at start.

Normally I would use the aux D accumulator to mask another event until a
given number of passes, but since the event you want to mask is an aux D
offset, you can't do it directly.
What you could do, is use the aux D accumulator on another track.
I'll need to think about the precise wya of doing that though...
 
> Got a track with notes on position 1,2 &3
> I want following options:
> Note 1 on
> Note 1 and 3 on
> Note 1,2&3 on
> If try this  with a random function I get some combinations I don't 
> like. What's the work around here?

You need use an accumulator mask of the gates on these steps, and a random
offset abs of the accumulator.

Set aux A to "Rndmz aux B". Set only step 1 active with a value of 2.
Set aux B to "offset abs xD". Set only step 1 active with a value of 0.
With these events set, each time you pass step 1, the aux D accumulator is
set to a random value od either 0, 1 or 2.

Now assign aux C to "mask gate,dAcc>n".
Working through this example has reminded me I need to change the
description of these events...
This one *should* be called "mask gate, dAcc>=n". I'll fix that in the
release build proper.

Anyway, this event means a step will not play unless the current value of
the aux D accumulator is greater than or equal to the aux C value for the
step.
Set aux C active on step 2 with a value of 2, and on step 3 with a value of
1.

Now if the aux D accumulator is 0, only step 1 will play.
If xDAcc is 1, steps 1 and 3 will play.
If xDAcc is 2, steps 1, 2 and 3 will play.

The accumulator value is random, so you get a random choice of step 1, step
1 and 3, or step 1, 2 and 3, as you wanted.

> When  using a knob to alter a CC number, setting up takes 
> some time. You 
> have to set the knob number and the CC number on each step.  
> Is there an 
> easy way  for doing this?

I'm not entirely sure what you mean here - are you talking about grabbing a
knob value to redirect to an aux, with a different knob assigned to each
step ?
That sounds like something that a pattern macro would be useful for.

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

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>>Let's say I've got a track playing and wanted an Aux event  to start 
>>after the track looped for 2 rounds. How do you guys do this?
>>In my case, got a CC on Aux D and turned the accumulator on. 
>>I want the 
>>accumulator to be turned on after a while, not at start.
>>    
>>
>
>Normally I would use the aux D accumulator to mask another event until a
>given number of passes, but since the event you want to mask is an aux D
>offset, you can't do it directly.
>What you could do, is use the aux D accumulator on another track.
>I'll need to think about the precise wya of doing that though...
>  
>
I tried the aux D accumulator and this allready solves part of the 
problem ;-)

> 
>  
>
>>When  using a knob to alter a CC number, setting up takes 
>>some time. You 
>>have to set the knob number and the CC number on each step.  
>>Is there an 
>>easy way  for doing this?
>>    
>>
>
>I'm not entirely sure what you mean here - are you talking about grabbing a
>knob value to redirect to an aux, with a different knob assigned to each
>step ?
>That sounds like something that a pattern macro would be useful for.
>  
>
Yes that's it but also even if you want the same knob aasigned to each 
step would help.
Thanx :-)

-- 
Tom Adam
The Big Ear
http://users.pandora.be/the-big-ear/
Check out the download section!

I know it's a little late in the day but I seem to have a mental problem 
with the way the new access to aux configs works in conjunction with the 
Page button. Was hoping to find a concensus here if poss. Here goes:
When working with auxes, I tend to very quickly use Func+Step Mode 
button twice to get to the config menu. I then, often, stupidly, tab 
down to the next aux and can't seem to help touching the step keys to 
set steps active when I've done it. Previously this did nothing and I 
then remembered I was in config edit mode, hit enter and got on with it.
I've got quite into this Page+Step key thing now - but you don't need 
Page in this context to change the config, since you're already editing 
the auxes. Hitting Page still toggles between CC number and Aux event at 
this point - something I'd love Colin to change for consistency. So in 
Aux config, I'd like to propose forcing the use of Page to set the 
values, just because I'm too thick to stop myself hitting a key (which 
reconfigues the aux and then there's no way to know what it did before).

I'm explaining this badly, I expect; usual excuses apply. But do you see 
what I'm asking? Anyone agree/disagree/have a better suggestion for this 
before Colin prints off a pile of manuals?

Paul