Modulating tracks at different speeds.

[Darin]

Track 1, speed 1/4x, acting as a feeder with some step pitch offsets.

Track 2, speed 1, acting as a listener.

Every step with an offset in track one only influences one step of track two (at the time both steps are run over by the chaselight). I expected the pitch modulation to last four steps, bearing in mind the 1:4 relationship between their tempi.

A graph will possibly explain this better than words:

1 – Pitch offsets on Track 1 (speed 1/4x). M stands for Muted step.

2 – Pitch offsets on Track 2 (speed 1x).

R – Modulation result Tr1->Tr2.

I guess that this isn’t really a bug, but it would be very useful if a track could modulate more than one step of another track if they are running at different speeds.

For instance, if you want to transpose a sequence in a periodic fashion, this would help to save track and grid slots. It sounds to me this would be a more musical and creative layout than the current one.

I hope I have explained it well. Would it be possible to implement such a behaviour?

[Jordi]

You explained that amazingly well and I agree with you that I would expect it to function as you did.

[Darin]

Thanks, at least that’s the way some step sequencers work and a technique I’ve found very useful in the past.

[gseher]

I totally agree, I expected that also.
I wanted use it like automated track pitch changes, so each step of the feeder sequence alters the pitch + whatever else of the listener track, until the next step in the feeder track.
However when i tried to do this I got similar problems.. only worked when the steps are at the same time – not what I expected.

[gseher]

I totally agree, I expected that also.
I wanted use it like automated track pitch changes, so each step of the feeder sequence alters the pitch + whatever else of the listener track, until the next step in the feeder track.
However when i tried to do this I got similar problems.. only worked when the steps are at the same time – not what I expected.

[gseher]

Good point! Thanks for bringing it up. Added to the to-do list.
Gabriel

[Dan Godlovitch]

Is this something which eventually got worked out?

[Julian Parker]

It’s not in 1.62, but if Gabriel is into it I’m sure it will come soon enough.

[Jordi]

Hopefully. I’ve been trying several workarounds for this particular issue, but it would be nice to have it implemented.

[Dan Godlovitch]

Can you do it by playing around with note length on the feeder track?

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