Something along these lines, then. This is maybe a minute’s music for something I’m working on.
Top row is for the left hand, bottom row is for the right hand, the equivalent of sheet music for the piano, where you instruct not only what to play, but which hand that plays it.
This is a rough draft, but I’m using this now to put together a track instead of using the arranger or similar, just write the music down as if it were sheet music. Works for me.
One thing I’m discovering is that the need to put patterns and scenes in some kind of particular order, becomes less important. It’s always been a bit of a hassle for me to keep projects organized based on an idea that certain parts of a song belongs to certain pattern numbers or scenes, because I tend to come up with new ideas all the time which blow that structure out of the water.
Now, the song is on the sheet music, I read the sheet and playt the Octatrack accordingly. Using this, it makes no difference if I jump between patterns, banks and scenes like crazy chaos, cause the order is in the sheet.
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