As I’m learning my Digitone, I’m appreciating the journey of developing a sound and a sequence. The end product is cool, but parts of the journey are also cool. How do you capture that?
I don’t want to record everything all the time, but I also don’t want to lose the special points along the way. Any tips?
Copy to new Patterns?
Once you arrive at a nice place in your journey, copy your pattern onto the next one.
Continue your journey fron that copied pattern, while leaving behind a perfect snapshot of the past.
while in keyboard view - FUNC + REC to copy
navigate to the next pattern - FUNC + STOP to paste
I highly recommend the Global Sampler plugin for Reaper -
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=260576
It basically just records the last x minutes of audio into a buffer that is constantly overwritten. If you made something cool you can drag that section of audio out onto a track and reuse it later. You would put the plugin on a track that’s monitoring the output from the Digitone.
It’s the same kind of thing as the Skipback feature on the SP-404 Mk2.
You need an excellent and easy to remember sequential and descriptive labeling system if you intend to do something like this. The amount of clutter you will accumulate is beyond anticipation.