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Yeah it's really the only way to do it it seems.  I just wanted to see if it was possible to have separate track lengths.  This would would be much easier. 

Extending a 4 bar into and 8 bar melody is easy.  It gets complicated pretty quickly when you have long melodies/ need to go back and change original elements etc.  

I also tried aaron's method of reverting to the original pattern lenght to make changes then extending again.  He may have meant to use the acutal loop feature.  I have tried so far with the re-extending with the extend feature and changing the pattern length and run into problems. Sometimes the start of the bar is missing, sometimes it seems like the data is duplicated.  I may be doing something wrong though.

Simply extending then cutting and pasting works well enough.  I'll probably experiment a bit more anyway.  Anyone with ideas/techniques on composing in this way?

 





--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Matt <somatt@...> wrote:
>
> Can't you just extend the first four bar pattern to 8 bars with extend to:
> and then put your melody in? And if u want to pull it from another pattern
> just use xmix.
> Or am I missing something?
> 
> sent from my gTab
> On Jun 9, 2011 5:04 AM, "lutherblisset63" <lutherblisset63@...> wrote:
> > Thanks steve. I was hoping to use it in this way:
> > You have a 4 bar bass line and you have have an 8 bar melody.
> > Instead of having to duplicate the 4 bars to fit into an 8 bar pattern,
> you could somehow have them looping together.
> >
> > Being able to play two patterns simultaneously, or convert a pattern to a
> track would work nicely. :)
> >
> > I'll keeping thinking about it.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@> wrote:
> >>
> >> Haven't found other discussions of this. There are a number of
> discussions related loop points that might be useful--specifically using the
> extend function.
> >>
> >> So, it seems you could do it using a lowest common multiple. For example,
> take a measure of 3 and extend it to 12 measures and take a measure of 4 and
> do the same.
> >>
> >> I haven't tried this yet, but based on the discussions in the archives
> (and the mathematics), it should work.
> >>
> >> Steve
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Unfortunately, I couldn't find any major discussions, but this thread
> touches on it: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/xl7/message/14111 .
> >> >
> >> > If I find any other related discussions, I will post them.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "lutherblisset63" <lutherblisset63@> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > Is it possible to simultaneously play tracks or patterns of differing
> length? You can only set the bar length for each pattern and play one
> pattern at a time as far as I can tell.
> >> > >
> >> > > I did a search and found this:
> >> > >
> >> > > > You can have patterns of different lengths playing
> >> > > > alongside each other (e.g
> >> > > > a 3 bar pattern looping over a 4 bar pattern).
> >> > > > Patterns can be up to 256
> >> > > > bars long....
> >> > >
> >> > > Is this possible? Can someone elaborate?
> >> > >
> >> > > Sorry if this has been answered before.
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
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