A Simple Plan With Pattern Sequencer/queue Mode

Ideas & suggestions
1

Hi

Basically the new queue mode is great, but something is needed to 1) get the user away from the mouse and 2) support more complex song structures. Here’s a (simple, but concrete) suggestion that we could discuss:

Supposed we could define a number of “triggers”. A trigger would:

  1. have a start, a loop-start and loop-end pattern.
  2. be triggable from keyboard and midi.

Let’s assume trigger 1 is defined with start=1, loop-start=3 and loop-end= 4. Activating it would queue pattern 1 (maybe position 1, which might be any pattern, not sure), which would start playing after the current one finishes, then play through 2 and loop 3-4. The fact that it*s not only a loop but more like a loop with preroll, makes it useful for triggering a chorus (that loops until the next trigger is send) with a pickup break.

What do you think?

2

Sounds useful. It would be nice to think about a full live mode with it’s own set of global sortcuts and other options not used in usual music creation as this cueing seems like just a basic start to what is needed to really work comfortably live.

3

Agreed.

Other useful stuff would include an option to not queue but start playing right away (like right clicking) a trigger. Also I’m not sure it’s possible to map midi to track mute (in mixer), but that’s needed too.