Help - Pattern Length

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Hello,

I’m having a hard time understanding the difference between setting the M.Len to the corresponding steps of a pattern, and setting the M.Length to Inf.

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Thank you for reading,
Cheers

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Infinite means it never resets. It will loop like normal however when it loops around it’s not counting the passes so things like conditional trigs using x:y will not work (other than 1st).

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Master length gives a fixed amount of steps before the pattern loops, Infinite length allows the individual track lengths to dictate their own loop point, so if you have unusual polyrythms that dont share a common master length they can keep evolving without the master length interupting. You will need to use change length to force a pattern change though.
Change length would over ride Master length at 48 steps in both the above examples.

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Thank you!
I have a pattern with M. Length set to 48 (3 bar pattern) and I would like the pattern to change after the first bar, so after 16 steps.
If I set ‘Change’ to 16 steps, it will change immediately after the bar that is playing, not after the first 16 steps. If I set ‘Change’ to 64, it will loop the first bar, and then change.
What I would like is to press another pattern, and the current playing pattern would only change after the first 16 steps… I don’t know what I’m doing wrong :persevere:

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So you have a 48 step(3 bar) pattern but you want to change to the next pattern after the first 16 steps(1 bar) have passed?. I am not sure I understand what you are trying to achieve, do you let the 48 steps loop several times and then have a need to change pattern on the fly after the first 16 steps?.
It sounds like you either need to change the way you set up a pattern or use a bit of manual timing when it comes to cueing up the next pattern, try setting change to 16 and cueing up the next pattern after the first step has played but before the 16th, using change of 32 you would do the same but during the last bar of the 3 rather than the first.

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Thank you very much for the help, I guess the best option is indeed using manual timing to cue the next pattern, and setting Change to 16. Cheers man!