[gseher]

Hi Duncan,
in the meantime I have tried to replicate the beat tick bug you reported, but was not successful. I have configured Octopus as MIDI slave, with a Machinedrum as master. Everything seems to work fine. Are you able to replicate the problem with a different MIDI master as well?
Thanks,
Gabriel

[gseher]

…ouf…ok: I’ll look into step events – uh, again (as in again-and-again ;o) – thank you for the hint!

[gseher]

oohh…. I get it…. so they’d still be synchronised but at step-level rather than bar level? yes. great for adding fills during drum parts…. maybe you could have the stopped patterns start exactly when you press the button, rather than on the next step, to give it a more human feel?

duncan.

[gseher]

I must add, even though it’s probably already underway, that the presentation of the storyboard won me over too, even though I’ve long-since grown-out of it…

duncan.

[gseher]

Yes you are right…2 Octopus are to much 1 grey and 1 black … no PC or Mac will have the capacity to react in 64 Midi Channels and 2 16 x 9 pages x 9 tracks with each 16 Steps…. :silly:

[gseher]

Yes you are right…2 Octopus are to much 1 grey and 1 black … no PC or Mac will have the capacity to react in 64 Midi Channels and 2 16 x 9 pages x 9 tracks with each 16 Steps…. :silly:

[gseher]

Actually, you can play with step events, using the midi channel attribute, to send different midi channels per step. It’s kind of fun, actually, when used in conjunction with the effector and the pos step events…

[gseher]

really like some of these remote control ideas…I’d like to have more ways in which the Octopus can cannibalize itself.

[gseher]

Grid track mode seems to be the natural place to build this.
Will look into it.
Gabriel

Post edited by: gseher, at: 2008/01/04 19:31

[gseher]

mattishq wrote:

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ive mentioned it a few times . . .the ability to Start and stop individual tracks via midi note on and off messages and also transpose the selected tracks at the same time . . . sounds simple but allows the user to create polymorphic ideas to then record into another sequencer or even back into another octopus track . . . i know the Octopus can change pages via program changes ? but it cant start and stop tracks via midi note on and off messages ? or can it ? been looking and hoping

Matt, thanks for your patience – and sorry for the lag in replying.
I will take it up and evaluate ways of making muting note bound, as opposed to program change bound. Since keyboards don’t usually have more than 88 keys, one solution would be to assign channels to each bank (e.g. 1-9) and then use the appropriate octave keys (labeling on the top) to select the page to be toggled.
Let me know what you think – anyone ??
Gabriel

[gseher]

–any additional hints / info on this would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Gabriel

[gseher]

This is great – thanks a lot!
Actually you just changed my way of looking at direction maps
Gabriel

[gseher]

Hello fairplay,

re. your questions below:

– MIDI channels may be assigned to separate tracks, but not to individual steps. Given the number of tracks you can work with simultaneously, may counterweigh this constraint.

– the "play once" behaviour of tracks can be achieved easily by setting up a direction that models the movement that you want.

Cheers,

Gabriel

[gseher]

…boah…I did know this (as many other things :

I can solve my problem by playing several pages at the same time…

So, for example, I play my instruments in the pages lined up in line one, while I trigger my samples by pages from line three in the GRID…

Short: I just found the ‘TGL’-switch :woohoo:

[gseher]

That Black Sea is gorgeous…the problem with the Octopus is that there really is no need for 2 of them. I know of people with 3 p3’s, or multiples of other sequencers. But how could I ever justify buying another Octopus.

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