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
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> 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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