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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: just john 
  To: xl7@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 7:54 PM
  Subject: [xl7] entering a rest in step mode


  Right now, when doing step entry, the only way I know of to enter a
  rest instead of a note is to take my hands (and eyes) off the keyboard
  and tweak the clock with a move of the Big Knob. (And that's only if
  I have the cursor in the right place, ahead of time.)

  Is there some easier way? Sometimes I just hit a note a couple
  octaves above or below the range I'm working, with an eye to
  after-the-fact cuts, but that's also darned clumsy.

  And I'm too clumsy to play a note with zero amplitude.

  Hang on .... As I type this, I've thought of something to try:
  Mapping a button or pad on my controller to a note, on a different
  channel. That might be acceptable, if step entry allows for multiple
  channel recording. Wait here a minute. 

  (Goes and tries something.)

  Okay, I just did a multi-channel step recording using the entry pads
  and shifting track/channel between notes. And yes, on playback, since
  I can mute tracks, that works as a way to do rests. So if I map a
  button on my controller to transmit a note on channel 16, then as long
  as channel 16 is not play-enabled, that button acts as a rest.

  You guys probably already knew this, I guess. Are there ways that are
  easier yet?



   

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----- Original Message ----
From: just john <just_john_jj@...>
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 1, 2008 7:58:56 AM
Subject: [xl7] Re: entering a rest in step mode

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "just john" <just_john_jj@...> wrote:

> Okay, I just did a multi-channel step recording using the entry pads
> and shifting track/channel between notes.  And yes, on playback, since
> I can mute tracks, that works as a way to do rests.  So if I map a
> button on my controller to transmit a note on channel 16, then as long
> as channel 16 is not play-enabled, that button acts as a rest.


UPDATE:  That didn't work.  Only steps on the displayed tracks were
recorded.  The thing I tried before involved changing which track was
being displayed.  Back to drawing board.


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On Sep 1, 2008, at 10:22 AM, just john wrote:

> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Eppolito <synthesis77@...> wrote:
>>
>> Just hit the Play button.  It will insert one rest.
>
> Great!  Thanks.
>
>
> Where's that documented?  Or did you discover it on your own?
>
>
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>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

From: Aaron Eppolito <synthesis77@...>
Subject: Re: [xl7] Re: entering a rest in step mode
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 12:52 PM






Just hit the Play button. It will insert one rest.

-Aaron

----- Original Message ----
From: just john <just_john_jj@ yahoo.com>
To: xl7@yahoogroups. com
Sent: Monday, September 1, 2008 7:58:56 AM
Subject: [xl7] Re: entering a rest in step mode

--- In xl7@yahoogroups. com, "just john" <just_john_jj@ ...> wrote:

> Okay, I just did a multi-channel step recording using the entry pads
> and shifting track/channel between notes. And yes, on playback, since
> I can mute tracks, that works as a way to do rests. So if I map a
> button on my controller to transmit a note on channel 16, then as long
> as channel 16 is not play-enabled, that button acts as a rest.

UPDATE: That didn't work. Only steps on the displayed tracks were
recorded. The thing I tried before involved changing which track was
being displayed. Back to drawing board.

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----- Original Message ----
From: Mauricio Balma <balmaproducer@...>

 
F*ck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
 
4/5 years using two machines of these ones and I didn't know that one!
 

----- Original Message ----
From: scosol <scosol@...>


Aaron wrote the OS :)

On Sep 1, 2008, at 10:22 AM, just john wrote:

> Great!  Thanks.
>
>
> Where's that documented?  Or did you discover it on your own?


--- On Mon, 9/1/08, Aaron Eppolito <synthesis77@...> wrote:

Just hit the Play button. It will insert one rest.

-Aaron

> > 
> > -
> 
> 
> Hey, if you can't discover new stuff, even in software you wrote
> yourself, then you aren't really trying, are you?
> 
> 
> 
> So while we're on the subject of stuff that doesn't seem to be in the
> documentation, and which up until now I'd assume wasn't available:  Is
> there a way to enable/disable pattern tracks via MIDI?  (The desired
> scenario is that, while a pattern is playing on the XL-7 and I'm
> playing along on a keyboard controller, hitting a properly configured
> button on the controller can enable or disable a specific track on the
> pattern.)  
> 
> (For extra credit, if it could trigger and also set the volume,
> similar to as is done in the BTS patches, that would be nifty.
> 
>  --
> * Radio Free Entropy: http://just-john.com/cn/rfe.shtml
>

From: scodoha04 <scott.d.harvey@...>
Subject: [xl7] Re: entering a rest in step mode
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 11:45 AM






The Play button engages the transport, regardless of sequencer mode
(except in step edit). The LED in the button will be illuminated when the
sequence is running.

This is as close as it explains it. 
My off/on button is flaking out also. If kicking it off with the
switch and no countdown isn't damaging I'm more than happy to use the
switch since everything's hooked up to a power strip.

--- In xl7@yahoogroups. com, "just john" <just_john_jj@ ...> wrote:
>
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups. com, Aaron Eppolito <synthesis77@ > wrote:
> >
> > Heh, I actually took a look through the manual to see if it was
> there, but surprisingly (since the manual's pretty comprehensive) it's
> not. I think step mode came in near the end of project if I remember
> correctly, so maybe that's why.
> > 
> > That said, the Play button *IS* blinking the whole time you're in
> step record... ; )
> > 
> > -Aaron
> > 
> > PS. the "discover it" comment totally made me laugh! glad I could
help.
> > 
> > -
> 
> 
> Hey, if you can't discover new stuff, even in software you wrote
> yourself, then you aren't really trying, are you?
> 
> 
> 
> So while we're on the subject of stuff that doesn't seem to be in the
> documentation, and which up until now I'd assume wasn't available: Is
> there a way to enable/disable pattern tracks via MIDI? (The desired
> scenario is that, while a pattern is playing on the XL-7 and I'm
> playing along on a keyboard controller, hitting a properly configured
> button on the controller can enable or disable a specific track on the
> pattern.) 
> 
> (For extra credit, if it could trigger and also set the volume,
> similar to as is done in the BTS patches, that would be nifty.
> 
> --
> * Radio Free Entropy: http://just- john.com/ cn/rfe.shtml
>

 














      

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