hello,
I chose bars per minute as a tempo specifier because it is way easier then to
synchronize different step sequencers with different time signatures.
you can just enter 16 values in the sequence field. if one values is supposed
to play every beat just enter your required beats per minute divided by 16 into
the "Bars per Minute" field.
regards,
sebastian mecklenburg
On 29.09.2011, at 11:15, Stuart Warren-Hill wrote:
> 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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