DT2 LST conditions with infinity

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Hello, all. This is my first post so please bear with me and apologies if I missed a thread about this. Longtime Digitakt and Digitakt II user but I’m stumped on this scenario. I’m using most recent update of Digitakt II.

Is it possible to utilize the LST condition on a track while your current pattern is set to infinity (which I use for the sake of polymeter)?

I typically write with different time signatures per track so I set certain time signatures to infinity but would like to be able to mute a track and have some extra steps play via the LST condition. I’m unable to cue patterns to switch since they are set to infinity therefore the LST condition doesn’t work. Is the only workaround using fill conditions? I understand how the LST condition works but without being able to cue up a new pattern, I’m wondering if anyone has some advice.

Example: track 1 is a 4x4 kick and once muted (rather than cued up to a next pattern), could it produce an extra kick on the last step of the sequence somehow without having to use fills?

I know muting versus pattern changing doesn’t work for the LST condition but does anyone have workflow that is similar? Perhaps the fill condition after all…

Thanks in advance!

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Set the ‘CH. LEN’ in the track scaling menu ‘FUNC+PAGE’ to ‘16’ or however many steps you want to pass when performing a pattern change.

This way, you can perform pattern changes while still have tracks set to ‘INF’. That would likely trigger any ‘LST’ conditions.

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Incredible!

This is groundbreaking for me. I had no idea this was possible. Thank you so much for your swift response!

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