good points here. i will be brief so i don't bore the rest of the group. (even more than normal).
the schaltwerk i have a lead on will be $1200 to $1500. not cheap by any means.
"chaining two patterns together left a tiny gap, which threw it out of lock with other sequencers, besides being out of rhythm."
dude, you just saved me a buck or two by dialing down the middle. i know that bug very very well!! wow, i'm glad you brought that up. you're 100% right. it did do that. it has that hiccup there, and i thought i was the only one who noticed it. that's not gonna work for me. you just saved me a lot of casheesh.
yeah i had the black sea octopus. most expensive machine ever. at 4 grand i was pretty disappointed. no LCD to know where you were at. and the thing was huge. too big.
i mean it was ok, and it had all the schaltwerk bugs worked out, but i don't miss it. just something about it. i know it's powerful and it's all spec'd out to the gills. but the work flow was uninspiring. i'm glad it's gone to be honest
OK, now that i am talking to someone who knows than what i am talking about. all that my thread was about is how to achievethe Track Delay functionality on the Schaltwerk.... but for the Command Station? remember that trick? you had all those values... 1/32...7/32. the bottom line is that Command Station will do, it too but it's in the Bar:Beat:Tick format. there has got to be a semi elegant way of doing the same thing on the CS. what field should I be messing with to get 1/32nd's of delay on the CS, etc. is it the tick section?(the last set of numbers) And if so... what values in the CS format would be equal the kind of values in the Schaltwerk? I know there is a lot more control there on the CS, but the Schaltz had the delay values pre-sorted. you just scrolled and picked 1/32 to 7/32 to choose from. Now those values you had there to scroll through... What would be the equivalent on the Schaltwerk for Track Delay in the Scale/Shift section on the Command Station?
So my question is more of like a translation question... adjusting ticks on the CS would be equal to 1/32 of track delay on the Schaltwerk, etc. The Schaltwerk had fixed amounts, and the CS doesn't. But they do the same thing. I was just looking for a translated chart or something, etc.
Ok, now that's as clear as I can make it. :)
Hopefully, Duncan, you can help answer this one. actually it's more of a math question at this point or even dipping into basic time signature theory. although, it's not jumping out at me.
thanks
>>But in the Schaltwerk you can delay a track by 1/16ths and 1/32nds.
> But that machine is gone. Although I may have a lead on another.<<
james, unless the schaltwerk you have a lead on is under $300, don't bother. save up & buy a real sequencer. just saying.
I have three maqs here, & I have used regelwerk, so I've got nothing against doepfer per se....
but my schaltwerk failed quite spectacularly to deliver, especially there were no s/w upgrades that could've done something with that interface.
but even simple stuff like chaining two patterns together left a tiny gap, which threw it out of lock with other sequencers, besides being out of rhythm.
I sold mine for $300 & lost a lot of money on the deal, but I was glad it was gone.
for that type of stuff (i.e. big grid of buttons in front of me), I use the octopus. mucho mejor. I also have two P3s, three notrons & a cirklon. & an XL7, obviously.
so you could say I'm pretty much a h/w sequencer type too.
hey- you want to buy a zeit? got one of those here.... :-)
duncan.