Elektron Musical Instruments

press patter A1 then A2 at the same time for the same effect;) 

 

Tony Scharf writes: 

> I always thought that electron should take a page from JoMoX and just
> add a 'last step' parameter. 
> 
> on the JoMoX, this let you 'overflow' into the next pattern.  in this
> way, each pattern only had 32 steps, but you could go to as many as
> 128 by setting that parameter.  if you set it to 64, for example, it
> would play the 32 steps from pattern 'a1' and then immediately follow
> it with pattern 'a2' as an example. 
> 
> Just a thought.  takes care of the memory issue too:  let the user decide. 
> 
> Tony 
> 
> 
> On Nov 13, 2007 11:11 AM, Patrik Rydan Rydberg <rydan@...> wrote:
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>> Joseph Melnyk wrote:
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>> > where's the memory for this to come from? you immediately just
>> > halved the number of patterns you can store.
>> >
>> > i don't see elektron shoe-horning something like this into their
>> > beautiful and well thought-out interface. but that's just my $.02
>> >
>> > On Nov 13, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Tarekith wrote:
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>> > > You can use blinking LEDs to get around the 2 bar limit:
>> > >
>> > > Bar 1 - LED 1 solid
>> > > Bar 2 - LED 2 blinks (in time with tempo?)
>> > > Bar 3 - LED 1 blinks
>> > > Bar 4 - LED 2 solid
>> >
>> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>> > 
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>> Well, another option is to use led 1 & 2 to represent pattern 1&2, and
>> then have the 1/16-led lit and 1 & 2 representing 3 & 4 respectively. 
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>> About the memory, well, I'd take 64 patterns with 64 steps over 128
>> patterns with 32 steps. However, why not make it user selectable, like a
>> global setting. You could just chain say pattenr A1 and E1, A2 and E2
>> and so on, so in 64-pattern mode you can only access bank A-D. Pattern
>> A1 has 64 steps, and the 32 last of those are stored (physically so to
>> speak) in the E1 pattern (although you reach it using the page select
>> button, and it behaves like a 64 step pattern). Pattern A2 is linked to
>> E2 and so on. If you then change to 32 step patterns, hey presto, banks
>> E-H are selectable again, and containing the second halves of your 64
>> step patterns... 
>>
>> Just my 2... 
>>
>> /Patrik 
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