There’s no formal hocketing feature, but there is an Output MIDI effect that allows for rerouting notes to a different output or MIDI channel. It might be possible to utilize this to achieve a form of hocketing. The selected output (including the CV outputs) and MIDI channel are modulateable, so you’d have to find a way to change those values on each note event. Random (via one of the internal LFOs) might be the easiest to implement. Will check in a little bit to see if this works.
There are many things I enjoy about Hapax. One thing that I’m enjoying right now is hooking up both the MIDI inputs and outputs of a synth that has a setting for turning local control off. This allows for the recording and the playing back of automation directly from the knobs of a synth.
Edit: I was able to get an arp with crude random hocketing working utilizing the Output MIDI effect + the LFO MIDI effect - each note of the arp is randomly sent to one of two MIDI channels (can easily be more than two, but I only have two synths plugged in right now). The LFO doesn’t have a sample and hold waveform (which would be ideal), but it does have a random waveform - since only one output on the Output effect can be selected at once, it effectively acts as a sample and hold anyway. An actual hocketing setting or effect would still be ideal, but this workaround at least works. I wonder if it would be possible to set up sequential switching with the available internal modulation tools. Fun exercise.
Edit: Sorry OP, I misunderstood the default project to be the same as a new empty blank project. Please disregard my previous reply in italics.
Doesn’t Hapax already have this feature? I think it only loaded empty templates until a recent update gave it the ability to load the last saved project. There’s a setting in Misc.
Ah, I think I misunderstood the DEFAULT template as being the same as a NEW blank project. I see now that they are two different things. I’ll edit my post.
You can do hocketing by duplicating the pattern across a number of tracks with different destinations and then messing with the chance parameters/trig conditions or use the Output FX. It’s very easy to achieve either way.
That’s what I do. Unless I’m wrong I don’t see any other way to do it. It has to be random.
That’s why I’m requesting a “step sequencer” fx that could advance one step on each incoming note. That would be a wonderful modulator.
I am a super Hapax noob, learning to use it slowly. One thing I cannot figure out, whether from searching or reading the manual, is whether it is possible to remove a bar from a Pattern.
Let’s say I record a 4 bar Pattern. Can I delete the second bar so that I am left with 3 bars? So far I have only managed to delete notes.
if i understand what you’re asking correctly, you don’t have to delete the bar. you can just shorten the length of the pattern to 3 bars (the notes in the fourth bar will still be there if you extended it back to 4)
Thanks for responding, but that’s not really what I am asking. I know I can shorten the length, but what if I want to delete/remove bar 2-3, or 3-4? Trying to understand if that is even possible, or if the MIDI editing is fairly basic (which is fine, as the Hapax excels at other things).
There are several ways to quickly select a group of notes and delete them readily…
You can then use that same method to either copy-and-paste or nudge the rest of your arrangement into place, shorten your pattern, etc.
You could even skip a step there, and just paste over the unwanted bar, then trim your pattern accordingly, depending on which bar you’re gunning for.
Perhaps there’s a better way (I’m still learning the Hapax), but that’s all I’ve been doing thus far, and I don’t find it overly cumbersome.
Cheers!
P.S. I can understand why deleting a bar directly might not be a high-priority function, as there are already multiple shortcuts for changing the length of a pattern, with or without duplicating events. Beyond which, it’s rare that you would actually want to delete a bar and not replace it; therefore, you’d be facing the same number of actions either way.
*See @jemmons suggestion below as well, with regards to zooming-out to make grabbing a bar even easier.
When holding a selection, try pressing 2nd (press once, don’t hold) to switch between a page or a patterns worth of notes.
Eg you want to move all the C to C#, you hold the row button, press 2nd once, now you can move the C notes on that page only, and leave the rest intact.
Works in other situations too, like 2 finger selection, or holding All.
