Hi
I like the idea, I could definitly use a step sequencer patch.
I would like it to have Beats per minute 'BPM' rather than Bars per minute.
I need a 16 beats to the bar step sequencer. will this do this?
Thanks
Stuart Warren-Hill
Hexstatic / Holotronica
On 29 Sep 2011, at 09:22, Sebastian Mecklenburg wrote:
> Hello, thanks for your reply.
>
> On 29.09.2011, at 09:23, Achim Breidenbach wrote:
>
>> - Rename "Wholes pause at Start" to "Delay", this tells me more about what
>> is does.
> "Whole pause" is a musical term. A step sequencer is a musical device so I
> chose to use musical terminology. Maybe I should change that naming, but the
> pause is relative to the tempo, i.e. to the length of a whole note. This is
> important to be able to synchronize several step sequencers. If you would
> have to specify a delay in seconds you would have to fire up a calculator and
> do loads of ugly calculations every time you use this patch. So "Delay"
> wouldn't be a good choice either. Hmm, I'll think about it.
>
>> - "Pattern doesn't change" is something you should check yourself within the
>> patch.
> Well, I guess you are absolutely right on this one. This would increase the
> computation cost by a simple string compare every time the patch is executed,
> which is neglectable.
>
>
>> - I would recommend not to "min/max" your inputs ("Bars per Minute" and
>> "Wholes pause at Start"). Currently I am not able to put in a delay of 10
>> seconds. If your patch is depending on min/max values for a certain input,
>> but I can't see a reason why I shouldn't have a delay of 10 seconds (or any
>> other number).
> Again I followed the music customs here. With a time signature of 4/4 and a
> tempo of 300 bars per minute you get a tempo of 1200 beats per minute which
> is by far faster than any song ever written. But maybe people are not using
> it for music only. My rationale about the delay was like this: When you
> specify a delay of 1 you could just as well rotate the pattern by one. But,
> come to think of it, this doesn't really make sense, maybe someone wants a
> pause of a whole bar at the beginning or so. So I guess it's ok to specify
> these two values in a range of [0, ∞).
>
> I implemented the changes and uploaded the new version to control.my/qc
> again.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Sebastian Mecklenburg
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 28.09.2011, at 20:50, Sebastian Mecklenburg wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Group,
>>>
>>> I wrote a simple step sequencer patch as a part of a larger project (which
>>> is not finished yet) and want to make it available to the community. Since
>>> i just started using qc and writing qc patches I would like to hear some
>>> feedback about it's usefulness.
>>> You can download it from control.my/qc
>>> This is beta software located on my new (i.e. also not yet finished) beta
>>> site, so please do not yet link to it from somewhere else please.
>>>
>>> Thanks and regards,
>>> Sebastian Mecklenburg
>
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