Has anyone had any joy controlling RYTM with a Grid?
I’ve got a Launchpad and a Monome 128 here. My aim is to use the Monome vertically so that I get half a bar (it’s enough for me) of pattern for each of the 12 voices and then I can find other uses for the other buttons, such as having a function key to allow me to make some of the pattern lengths shorter.
The simplest approach seems to be to use Max to make 12 individual sequencers and simply slave RYTM. I’ve held off doing this though as it seems that I wouldn’t be able to use the parameter record function this way - the moves get recorded but the external sequence overrules this. I’ve seem some applications that manipulate patterns so I was wondering how nightmarish it is to get direct access to read/write the RYTM Sequencer. The onboard sequencer does everything I want it to, I just want to have visual and tactile access to all the sequences.
Thanks in advance for any advice, if there’s interest then I’ll post any deadends that I find, save someone else some time.
I believe @void knows a thing or two about reading / writing sequences with the AR programmatically?
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You need to read and write via sysex entire patterns at once (which include all p-lock data), so you can’t really populate trigs on the fly…void and my app do this, it’s based off of the libanalogrytm library on github…it’s tedious and in general, there is no direct access to the sequencer like you imagine…read entire pattern, send entire pattern, that’s it…sending takes anywhere from 1-3 seconds 
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Thanks Tsutek, yep Void knows a thing or two about lots of things ;-). I’m certainly not in that league!
Thanks Mekohler, I think it was your app that made me think about interacting with the onboard sequencer, it’s a great idea. It seems wrong to have that functionality sitting there and not use it but 1-3 seconds is too long and it sounds like it’s gonna be a chore to do. I suspect that you have saved me many evening of swearing at my computer, thanks!!
Elektron… I bet there would be lots of us who would love a Max object that we could interact with, especially now you have done the legwork with OB.
They could implement another, smaller sysex message that deals with only individual trigs and p-locks…it’s up to them though :[
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