thedvs01 wrote:elektrik_muz wrote:thedvs01 wrote:Antonym wrote:1 - we are now able to specify sequence LOOP start/stop. say you have a 16 bar loop. we are now able to set the sequence to loop between say bar 4 and 8, or 9-12, or any number. this is WILD. i can now have a song that i've rendered to 1 long, 60 bar sequence and still have it loop on the bars that once were originally sequence 4. this is a big deal.
that is a huge deal, I was trying to find that feature in OS1 the other day and was amazed that it wasn't included
I'm amazed too. I'm amazed that you guys can't find that feature in OS 1 because I am using it in the latest version as I type this. It's in the same place as OS 2. Just go to LOOP in main screen and hit window.
That's been there awhile. Unless you're talking about something else?
I tried that before and it doesn't work
say you have a 4 bar sequence and you hit WINDOW and set first bar to 3 and last bar t 4. When you press play all it will do is loop those 2 bars, it won't play the first 2.
in other words, you press play and it goes: 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4 ...
it makes bars 1 and 2 pretty much useless
the way Nym says it does it in OS2 (which is the way that is actually handy) is that it will go
1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4 ...
sure there are alternatives (like making two sequences) but its a convenience to have the feature
EDIT:
hmm, interesting -- turns out it works that way in OS1 as well, but only if you press PLAY from bar 1.
if you press PLAY START it only plays the loop that you set.
I have the 3.08 OS and am planning on buying OS 1 and eventuallyt OS2 but I'm just trying to learn all that it does first before upgrading. I came accross this and have been trying to do something similar in Song mode. What I would like to, for example, I'm using 4 bar/measure sequences (4 beats per bar/measure) and I have sequence 1, 2 and 3 playing straight through then the 3rd sequence comes in again but this time I want to stop the sequence after the second beat of the 4th bar and have the 3rd sequence come in once again (on the 3th beat) but have it just repeat the first 1/2 beat of the first bar 4 times in order to complete the third and fourth beat of the 4th and last bar, then have the song go into the 4th sequence and so on. Basically it sounds like the loop stutters at the very end replaying the very beginning of that same loop 4 times before going into the next sequence. It's kind of hard for me to explain and I'm not totally sure I got all that beats/measures talk correctly but I hope I get my point accross. Before I got my MPC about a month ago I was using my Motif ES and in the "pattern chain" mode it let you put your sequences in order just like my MPC does but next to the sequence there was a field where you could specify at what bar or beat within a bar you wanted to begin and stop the sequence (it always defaulted to play the entire loop unless you changet it) so you could have a variety of ways that a sequence could start and stop playing without actually having to copy the original sequence and create new shorter sequence out of it. Is there anyway to do something similar in the MPC1K or do you just have to copy sequences then edit the sequnces and time signitures accordingly? Is this even posted in the right thread? Maybe JJ can implement some thing like this in OS 2 if it's not already there in OS1, it's a time saver and lets you do some crazy transitions besides just taking sounds out and dropping sounds in. Thanks for your help in advance.
- B.A.
