Analogue-sequencer

--- On Thu, 4/6/09, duncan <ferrograph@aol.com> wrote:
 
> I'm lost now. it may be the terminology.... how do I
> assemble parts into a larger sequence? damn, just when I
> thought I had it nailed.

Probably the terminology. Chain them by holding down a range of part keys that will then loop round (unless you employ aux events to say different). You can set repeats and global bar lengths for each part too, as I bet you've tinkered with. 

Paul

> > I'm lost now. it may be the terminology.... how do I
> > assemble parts into a larger sequence? damn, just when I
> > thought I had it nailed.
> 
> Probably the terminology. Chain them by holding down a range 
> of part keys that will then loop round (unless you employ aux 
> events to say different). You can set repeats and global bar 
> lengths for each part too, as I bet you've tinkered with. 

Yep - a combination of setting global bars and part chain repeats can give
you quite a long song structure.
You're just limited to 8 sections, but that probably covers any
intro-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-middle8-chorus-outro thing you might do.

Cheers,
Colin

>>Probably the terminology. Chain them by holding down a range 
> > of part keys that will then loop round (unless you employ aux 
> > events to say different). You can set repeats and global bar 
> > lengths for each part too, as I bet you've tinkered with.<<

so what's a "part", in v4? I'm asking on behalf of the noobs, aswell as old v3 users like me who went to v4 principally for the larger memory & who then lost the playlisting function....
is it now a combination of track mute settings? does it remember different start/loop points?

personally, I've never touched the part button since loading v4. I'm not sure I didn't think it didn't do anything anymore...

& my understanding of how to set loop points is recent; though I've been cheerfully making patterns of different multiples of 16 steps, I've not really needed to alter these things in the context of using the p3 as a midi-looping device. 

having the ability to set the start & loop points for a long pattern in several different places, & then store this information into parts would sort of return some of the lost playlist functionality. I would simply play into a track all of the notes for a particular instrument, then divide this performance up into intro/verse/chorus/middle-8 & so on using the start & loop points, & store each section under a different part button.

is this how it is? or am I trippin'?

d.

duncan wrote:

> so what's a "part", in v4? I'm asking on behalf of the noobs, aswell as old v3 users like me who went to v4 principally for the larger memory & who then lost the playlisting function....

You lost playlists but got multi-bar patterns with loop points. You can 
have a different pattern for each track and each part, memory 
permitting. You've been missing some major fun dude!

> is it now a combination of track mute settings? does it remember different start/loop points?

It remembers track mutes as always and yes it remembers the patterns on 
each track, each of which have individual loop points.

> personally, I've never touched the part button since loading v4. I'm not sure I didn't think it didn't do anything anymore...

You can have a user scales for part too, different global bar settings 
(sync bars to the global bar, copy a part and just change the global bar 
on the new part for some very cool instant non-destructive changes to 
patterns.

> am I trippin'?

I will be tomorrow... :)

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