Breaking Out Of The Pattern

[XG2003]

[quote=“Knetter”]
But then without pattern quantizing, so there will be no pattern borders anymore in the sequencer – it will all be lines (which can be zoomed out to birdeye’s view so you can see the whole song and all different tracks). In fact, the pattern idea will be history and perhaps only exists as indicator. Somehow this relates to the “clips” idea but then only basic functionality.

So, with my poor PS skills I created a mockup:
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How do you know which of your patterns are on each track you are looking at? Your design just gives you a load of random lines (or might as well be random) to represent each pattern. Wouldn’t the Buzz Sequence Editor way be better? See my screenshots here:

Brainstorming: Arranger

Here are some of my ideas. Terminology in bold. Basics First of all, the main parts of the arranger will be a time ruler and multiple trackstrips. It’s enough to describe what a trackstrip should contain. A trackstrip will have two parts, the trackheader and the trackcontents. This is much like in the patterneditor, and as in other sequencers with similar arrangers. The trackheader will show trackname and other relevant information. Trackcontents will show clips with trackdata. Up to thi…

And it would be really helpful if people suggesting new ways of sequencing patterns, etc. could actually try Buzz, to see how Buzz does it - you might like it.

As it is, I am endlessly frustrated by the pattern matrix in Renoise - admittedly it’s better than nothing, but it’s just so much slower than the Buzz Sequence Editor.