Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

What I'm saying is that you should be able to sequence things like Pitch, Cutoff, and basically everything, the same way you sequence Vel and Gate in Grid Mode, using the knobs and the same display.

I thought thats what 16 step sequencing was all about. There are 16 knobs here ready to send numbers to parameters.

Velocity is the only parameter which can be totally isolated and routed to something else, for exmaple Pitch. Sure you can route lots of Velocity copies, but thats just the same sequence.

If you could pick things like Filter Cutoff instead of just Velocity and Gate it would have been a real 16 step sequencer for many if not all tweakable parameters.

This is different from just recording yourself turning the Cutoff knob. That is cool I like that too, but actual control of the value of each step, while the sequencer is running in grid mode, without going into step mode, would have been pretty super and I imagine wouldn't have taken much effort program... since it already exists for Velocity and Gate.

Anyway, just some food for thought there. 

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "bonzai2050" <bonzai2050@...> wrote:
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> I deleted my last two posts for brevity.
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> The issue is, the only two parameters you can use to record a 16 knob sequence in Grid mode are Vel and Gate. 
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> That's why I wanted to repatch Gate to something else, which can't be done, because as you said, if Gate is somehow unpatched, there will be no sound.
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> This would not matter if all CC's were sequencable in Grid mode. But, they aren't, you can only record real-time twiddles. 
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> Korg MS2000 has three 'lanes' to for 16 step sequencing which can be patched to a variety of different CCs. Many other synths have this, and I thought "Anything with 16 sequential knobs surely does this"
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> I don't want to have to drop $1000 on a Cirklon, or build a MIDIBox Seq v4 without any electronics experience.
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> I figured if there are 16 knobs on this baby then surely you must be able to sequence any CC.
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> But I only have Velocity and Gate to sequence with the 16 knobs in Grid mode. Thats the bummer. :)
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> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@> wrote:
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> > This is an interesting thread, but I am confused when you say that gate controlling gate is a bummer.  What are you trying to do or not do?
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> > It almost seems like you are saying that when a note is triggered, you don't want it to make a sound, but this doesn't make sense to me.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> > --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "bonzai2050" <bonzai2050@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Well I just gave it another shot. This time building the entire patch from scratch with only the most necessary patchcords.
> > > 
> > > Gate wasn't routed to anything, almost everything was 'off'. Still it was controlling the Gate. 
> > > 
> > > They are just 16th notes btw. Unless I'm doing something wrong or missing something, it seems that you can't stop Gate from controlling Gate.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Bruno <brunorc@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Just from top of my head:
> > > > 
> > > > 2012/6/10 bonzai2050 <bonzai2050@>:
> > > > > Also... although you can assign Gate to control whatever you want, it still seems to control the Gate as well. That's a bit of a bummer.
> > > > 
> > > > Have you tried searching for a patchcord that binds those to
> > > > disconnect it exactly in the same way as below:
> > > > 
> > > > > Velocity works perfectly though after you disable the Vel->Amp patch.
> > > > 
> > > > The whole thread seems interesting. I have AN1x which features a real
> > > > step sequencer, but hadn't time yet to dig it.
> > > > 
> > > > Bruno
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