I’ve been thinking about this for some time, I know there is a Song mode, but I think this could be a good addition, for performance as well as for experimentation.
Conditional patterns.
In essence it would be a submenu on the trig page per pattern (or in the pattern length sub), which determines whether a pattern works normally (loop until a different one is selected) or conditionally (with options for pattern repetition, destination bank, destination pattern )… here it gets entertaining:
Encoder 1: defines how many turns the pattern loop makes.
encoder 2: defines the destination bank based on the previous condition.
encoder 3: defines the destination pattern based on previous conditions.
• The duration of the pattern is linked to the length defined in the pattenr length menu.
• Encoder 2 defines the destination bank.
• Encoder 3 defines the destination pattern.
Within the defined bank options (A,B,C, ETC…) there is also a random option, both for paterns and for banks.
- I think that a practical use of this option would be to be able to define certain patterns as transitions, knowing that a pattern is configured to last a certain number of cycles and end in another, would be practical to manipulate other instruments in a live performance situation, or To free up fingers when manipulating parameters within the same machine, you could also use an lfo that will have a filter for two turns to fall directly to another pattern in a programmed manner.
It would be a kind of hybrid system between song mode and manual mode.
- Along with this (using a random option as a destination), the opportunity to generate random movements of patterns is allowed, defined by the duration of the patterns length. For example, a project with different durations of patterns, 3,5,13, etc… and these are configured with random destinations, banks and patterns.
At the moment I consider it a fairly superficial idea but I think it could contribute a lot to what live performance means.
PD: I have done all this based on Google Translate.
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