Without going insane with the added risk of losing pieces of written music?
Case: I suck at composing, so most of the time my phrases are disjointed. I hate that. So whenever it’s possible I go back and write gap patterns to link stuff. But this way the pattern flow is a mess, and replaying it without a sheet pointing where the next pattern is is difficult, especially if you’ve had a few beers before.
Example: A03 to A04 is missing something, but i’ve already written up to A16. So bank B is the filling patterns. B01>>B02>>B03>>B04 should go inbetween. But like I’ve written already, I’d like to rearrange them so that B01 becomes A04, and progressing. Is there an easy way to do that?
Was thinking more of a pre-live situation where you got the stuff ready to play but you may trigger the wrong pattern because they’re all in different banks, with the arranger I’d have to basically put every row on loop because I may want to play one pattern a certain amount of times more than another, or tweak or whatever, that’s more effort than writing everything down, :\
Octaedit on the other hand seems a neat tool, been eyeing it for a while, will probably purchase it sometime soon.
Guess it’s old school dungeon crawling pen and paper for the time being!
I change manually the pattern place on OT when needed or when I’ve decided the right order…if you still having some free space on some bank…copy-paste/copy-paste… ( I do that also between projects).
It’s not complicated but yes, it’s tedious… Knowing me I always keep some free patterns between songs when I’m composing, to use it later when rearranging.
Yea but soo many times I did a wrong copy and paste and realized the project hadn’t been saved in a long while, sulked and stopped working on it altogether, it’s a crucible I don’t have the fortitude to overcome, and am extremely awful at remembering to save every four plocks done right. Maybe it’ll become a second skin someday, but there’s so many hollow graves in my projects folder I’d better do it from the editor that’s been suggested.
Yes right. I do the copy and paste thing pattern by pattern, not forgetting parts and it’s easy to make a mistake.
Still think you can get some mileage out of the arranger - like maybe intersperse some REM lines to label the line below with intuitive names rather than C05 etc. And you can go in and out of the arranger to make your tweaks. Must be an improvement over a written sheet plus if you got fluid with using it then you can get creative with BPM switching (as that’s the only place it seems you can store tempos).
I’m someone who doesn’t use the arranger much but - I sense its potential!
Knowing me I always keep some free patterns between songs when I’m composing, to use it later when rearranging.