P-Locks for retrigs?

Elektron Gear Digitakt
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I have track 1 with 4 trigs each with retrigs, and wanted to use trig-less trigs to alter the sound of the retrigs.
(apologies for the number of ‘trigs’)

It doesn’t sound like they’re having any effect, though.
Is this possible?

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I’m just guessing but I assume each retrig (as the name indicates) is retriggering the envelope so whatever property of the sound you’re attempting to effect, might not have enough time to become audible. It might work with some different parameter but maybe not what you’re doing. I’m just guessing because you didn’t specify what you’re trying to alter with the trigless trigs. It might work better if you resample the phrase and add the locks to that instead.

I could be wrong though, just venturing a guess, I’d think it also depends on the sample. But yeah, are you trying to lock the filter or what are you doing?

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try micro timing the plocks

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Which parameter?
Start should work.
I guess pitch works, not sure.

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Yes, I was trying various filter parameters, and was going to add more.

Will try a few others.

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I think you’re right, it may just be too quick to hear the effect most of the time.

I’m already using LFO on Sample Tune.

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@sezare56 is right though, some parameters would work but the change or impact might be more subtle. I think if you want it to behave the way you were thinking it would originally, might be better to just resample and then that way you’re just dealing with a chunk of sound and the trig envelope just triggers once. Filter and whatever else should just behave normally at that point.

I think you can play around a bit though and probably figure out some cool unique ways to lock parameters over the top of retrigs but sometimes the stuff that happens when I do that sort of experiment just isn’t usable. If you want the sound you were looking for in the first place then just take the shortest path from A to B, because it’s easy to kill your motivation if you go down a side street and just walk around in circles when you should just be walking the straighter road.

Either way, at least it makes more sense now. Good luck.

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Thanks. Already very happy with how it’s sounding (which, admittedly is not very friendly to anyone else’s ears…), just curious if this technique would work really.

Will try it for another tune with a longer sample, perhaps. In this case it’s drum-style sounds.

Thanks for all the thoughts.

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quote of the day.

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