Hello folks! I have a question about how to record longer musical lines in a more free flowing fashion. Right now it seems like I have to mentally break everything down to the 64 step limit, stop, then go to the next PATTERN, record the next part of that phrase… stop, go to the next PATTERN then record the next part…
I was thinking it would be really nice if there was an option in the sequencer to just “continuously record” by automatically going to the next PATTERN as long as I play and keep the live record button active.
It seems like a simple idea, that could really make my creative flow easier. I’m more of a feeler than someone who can break down what I’m hearing and segment it into 64 steps, break the flow, switch, do the next 64 steps…
Of course this is easy to do recording straight into the computer… sure, certainly… but that’s not what I want to do.
Of course it would be slick to have the synth also “tie together” all of the banks that I recorded, because it makes sense in this mode that I wanted them to be played back to back.
Also for the Rytm… longer beats are more fun for me. I love playing lots of variations on the same beat for longer periods.
Is there a way to achieve this kind of thing inside the synth itself or do I have to go straight into the comp? If I have to do that it would kinda defeat half the purpose of owning these boxes… which I love btw.
So I think you may be getting your terminology mixed up with regards banks (I think you mean patterns??)
Within a project, the AKeys has 8 banks (A-I ) and each bank has 16 patterns (128 patterns total). Each pattern can have up to 64 steps.
You can achieve what your after by creating a chain of 2 or more patterns and then live recording.
You could do it with song mode too, I guess if you already had a song structure in mind and just wanted to live jam over the whole track.
From this point I suggest you look at the Chain Mode section of the manual.
So I’m going to try that… that sounds super simple. Just chain like 8 patterns together, set them all up to be 64 steps, then jam on it? That’s hella easy. Gonna try that tonight. Any other tricks I should know?
One thing to keep in mind…not certain and I’m not at my machine to confirm, but I think: you’ll need to place a trig on each pattern in this chain when you set it up, because without doing so, I THINK the patterns will revert back to the default 16 steps, as they’re blank so there’s nothing to save.
You can either place a trig mute along with this trig, or some kind of locked parameter that won’t get in your way when you actually get down to jamming out on the chain.
One thing to keep in mind…not certain and I’m not at my machine to confirm, but I think: you’ll need to place a trig on each pattern in this chain when you set it up, because without doing so, I THINK the patterns will revert back to the default 16 steps, as they’re blank so there’s nothing to save.
You can either place a trig mute along with this trig, or some kind of locked parameter that won’t get in your way when you actually get down to jamming out on the chain.[/quote]
no, because when you do this you have to load up the same kit in each pattern beforehand (otherwise while you record it will change patches), and i think that makes the number of steps stay at whatever you set it to be… anyways i didnt have problems with that when i was recording into an empty chain
I think Zwolf is right >>> every Pattern needs at last 1 Trig or it will return to 16 steps. You can preload different Kits to every Pattern - and still have thesame Sound on the Track you’re recording - by making shure that every Kit has the same Sound ( with thesame Sound-settings >> volume etc…) on that Track.
If you calculate - There’s a maximum of 128 Patterns per Project.
and a maximum of 64 Steps per Pattern
128 X 64 = makes a maximum of 8192 Steps that can be recorded Live into Chained Patterns ( or Song-mode - if no Patterns are being repeated or used twice witch would erase what’s previously recorded ).
U can do Quantised or Unquantised recording ( or apply Quantising after recording - in this case it’s Undestructive if I’m correct ).
its a pretty good one… especially along with arps, because they can subdivide a number of times
also helps if you are looking for super slow lfo sweeps
I tend to chain patterns in song mode and record all patterns in a single pass (in song mode). Alternatively you can chain patterns by hand and record in pattern mode.