Analogue-sequencer

> From: "Colin f" <colin@colinfraser.com>
> Reply-To: analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 01:04:57 +0100
> To: <analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [analogue-sequencer] another question: triggering a pattern
> 
>> I'm confused. 
>> "The 'global bar length', GBar, is the number of 16th note
>> steps that the P3 will use as the length of one cycle of the
>> current part." So, if I set gbar to 16, won't the pattern
>> reset well before I want it to without ever reaching step 16?
>> Suppose it actually takes, e.g. 45 16th note steps to reach
>> step # 16, as indicated by the cursor lighting up step 16?
> 
> If you set gbar to 16 it would reset too soon. If you set it to 45, it
> wouldn't.
> Of course, then your advance to the next part would be synced to the 45
> step gbar.
> 

ah - well, I hadn't realize that this parameter could be set higher than 16,
but 16 as a limit would be very low, wouldn't it...Let me see - 256, that's
not so bad, but it is 16 notes...plus, I will definitely be setting up some
patterns using the probability aux events so I won't be quite sure how long
they'll go. It's my goal to exceed any limit that you set...

>> That should be the user's responsibility to make sure that
>> his patterns do what is intended. I think that this should at
>> least be available as an option, say, 'use pattern last step'.
> 
> Let's see if we get any more votes for that option ;-)
> I have a feeling it may be rather tricky to implement though...
> 
>> But this just seems so basic to me that part of
>> the concept of using an aux event to control the last step is
>> that you may want to create a much longer evolving pattern.
> 
> I often use it with a random or threshold mask to decide whether a
> pattern will play 8 steps or 16.
> In that case, changing the behaviour might cause me to have to think
> more about what I'm doing.
> Next coding session I have, I'll add a 'set plist hold' event, and see
> if it keeps you happy ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Colin f
> 

Alternatively, maybe you could prescribe a drug that would make me think
that all of my demands have been met...

Now, this 'set plist hold' event would hold the playlist on the same step,
but wouldn't really affect the number of repeats to step 16, as I understand
it...
So, it's not as good as a config option to have the repeat counter simply
look to the pattern last step. In addition this wouldn't use up a valuable
aux event.

But, hell yeah - it will make me happy, although I will pretend not to be.