George Stobbelaar

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  • in reply to: Step event => track tempo multiplier #2239
    George Stobbelaar
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    great idea!! … why not going a bit wilder with a step event on bpm?? 👿
    I have no idea if this is possible

    in reply to: love 2 #2264
    George Stobbelaar
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    adam wrote:

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    I don’t follow this. Can you break it into steps, here?


    I am interested in using "cellular automata" for creating musical structures – and Stephen Wolfram is one of the main explorers of these mathematical "entities": rule based mathematical systems with discrete states which can generate very complex patterns from a few simple rules like the famous "Game of Life" algorithm.
    So my basic pattern is the "entry pattern" of a system of f. e. 16 states. The step event-function is the "rule" which changes the states of the system. with another step event on pitch I create another "dimension of change" With another step event on direction and/or on amount I actually create a "meta-rule" because the rule "or the way change happens" is changed by another rule…..
    I know this is not at all important for composing nice and interesting music – or it is??? – so it’s perhaps bit OT.

    in reply to: step event problems #2238
    George Stobbelaar
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    Today I had time to reinstall OS 1.6 again. Now it works as it should :

    in reply to: step event problems #2225
    George Stobbelaar
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    I really would like to know wether it is a bug and I have to wait for an update, or if I should install the OS new…
    I would like to use step events on position!!!
    :(

    gseher wrote:

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    That makes it seem like the step data is changing by itself, but what you are actually seeing is the step data set being swapped altogether.
    What OS version are you on? With that info I can track for sure if this is the cause of the problem or not.
    Cheers,

    Gabriel

    Post edited by: lebenspuls, at: 2009/01/27 06:39

    Post edited by: lebenspuls, at: 2009/01/27 06:57

    in reply to: step event problems #2224
    George Stobbelaar
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    Hi,
    thanks for the answer. OS is 1.6
    Best wishes

    Pieter

    in reply to: step event problems #2191
    George Stobbelaar
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    I stil don’t understand why this happens. Can someone please help me!!??

    lebenspuls wrote:

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    Hi and Happy New Year,
    I am experimenting with step events. When I create a step event for position it switches sometimes automatically to velocity (sometimes after first run sometimes after a few cycles). Probably I am missing something but WHAT?
    Please help

    Post edited by: lebenspuls, at: 2009/01/14 16:13

    in reply to: Feature request – #1329
    George Stobbelaar
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    I definitely like that idea. The option to choose sync or not sync would be very important. It would make the octopus even more an experimental input device as it is already. Reminds me of the Buchla Thunder, but the Octopus would make it easier to program and more complex. Great idea!!

    mattishq wrote:

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    duncandisorderly wrote:

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    oohh…. I get it…. so they’d still be synchronised but at step-level rather than bar level?

    yeah that kind of thing duncan – maybe the option to choose whether the track fired remains synced to clock and starts on the next step but also the option to have no sync at all to clock and use the octopus to ‘ play ‘ sequences like some mad keyboard wizard all out of sync . . . for ambient music out of sync is wonderfull – like out of sync tape loops . i use the octopus loads to trigger cycles of slow attack sounds and stuff like this with tracks cycling in usual ways that never seem to repeat.

    . . .. . . . . . . . i am drifting but it would be great to have both the ability to ‘ fire ‘ tracks in gridtrack mode both in sync and out of sync.

    in reply to: Realtime recording and steps #1234
    George Stobbelaar
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    robert wrote:

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    3. What’s the quality of the switches and pots used in the hardware? Normal, high, cheap stuff? The idea of having a zillion of these babies replaced after some time is not very tempting. ;)

    I can’t give a long-time-experience account but compared to all my other hardware the switches and potis of the Octopus are excellent. Both are metal, the switches are tightly embedded in the surface but reacting very tight. So you can glide over them without "feeling insecure". The potis have a quite strong raster which is convient for counting steps and are rock solid.
    I am no engineer but I feel very secure and comfortabel with the hardware (it feels much better than my nord modular G2)

    Best wishes

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