Elektron Musical Instruments

Salud!

I'm Carlos, from Madrid, Spain. I'm waiting for a check to order my
Machinedrum. Meanwhile, I have a somewhat silly question. Is it possible to
program tempo changes with the SPS1?

How many songs can you hold in memory?

Thanks!

K!

On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 10:39 AM, Kraken wrote:

> I'm Carlos, from Madrid, Spain. I'm waiting for a check to order my
> Machinedrum. Meanwhile, I have a somewhat silly question. Is it 
> possible to
> program tempo changes with the SPS1?

This is indeed possible.  In SongMode each pattern of a song can either 
use whatever the current BPM setting is, or you can program your own.

> How many songs can you hold in memory?

32 songs can be stored, each with a max of 256 patterns

hth,
c.

Salud!

> This is indeed possible.  In SongMode each pattern of a song can either
> use whatever the current BPM setting is, or you can program your own.

Thanks, Corey. Pushing a bit further: I have a song in an old RX17 that has
a +32 bmp gradual change over two 4/4 measures (a fill from verse to
chorus). In order to make it "smooth", I programmed a pattern consisting of
a single 1/8 bass drum beat, repeating it 16 times with a slight increase in
tempo (+2) in each pass. Is it possible to program a different tempo for
each part of the same pattern, in order to avoid this mess?

Thanks in advance.

K!

On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 10:56 AM, Kraken wrote:

> tempo (+2) in each pass. Is it possible to program a different tempo for
> each part of the same pattern, in order to avoid this mess?

I don't believe that is possible.  I had to do a similar thing, and used 
the trick you used with the rx17.  Although...with the song sequencer 
you can specify start/length of the pattern, so theoretically you could 
break the pattern up into individual parts by doing:

Song Step 1: Pattern 1 - steps 1-4 : 120BPM
Song Step 2: Pattern 1 - steps 5-8 : 122BPM
Song Step 3: Pattern 1 - steps 9-12 : 124BPM
etc...

Not sure whether this would be more or less of a mess than the trick you 
used with the rx17.

hth,
corey

Salud!

Thanx Corey.

K!



----- Original Message -----

From: "Corey Appleby" <digitalwank@...>
To: <elektron-users@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [elektron] Hello!


> On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 10:56 AM, Kraken wrote:
>
> > tempo (+2) in each pass. Is it possible to program a different tempo for
> > each part of the same pattern, in order to avoid this mess?
>
> I don't believe that is possible.  I had to do a similar thing, and used
> the trick you used with the rx17.  Although...with the song sequencer
> you can specify start/length of the pattern, so theoretically you could
> break the pattern up into individual parts by doing:
>
> Song Step 1: Pattern 1 - steps 1-4 : 120BPM
> Song Step 2: Pattern 1 - steps 5-8 : 122BPM
> Song Step 3: Pattern 1 - steps 9-12 : 124BPM
> etc...
>
> Not sure whether this would be more or less of a mess than the trick you
> used with the rx17.
>
> hth,
> corey
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