[matt avent]

Hey guys and bosses, I have to agree with LDT here that the fastest and most intuitive way of copying steps would be to press and hold a step key in page mode and tap CPY to copy, and press and hold any others and tap PST to paste.

This would drastically speed up entering patterns from my point of view. The multicopy version could be left in place couldn’t it?

Incidentally, for multicopy, is it possible to select up to seven steps and copy them down to a single step, preserving their pitches but setting all other parameters to that of the base note?

I know there’s another feature for compressing tracks down to one but this one might be a bit more flexible?

Cheers

Matt

[matt avent]

I could really use a tap tempo to synch the octopus to my modular’s drones

Tapping the play button whilst playing would be good.

Whilst the seq is stopped perhaps you would have to hold the stop button down and tap the play button??

[matt avent]

I promise to read the manual more thoroughly before posting in future! :blink:

[matt avent]

gseher wrote:

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Nice idea! Please help me better understand how this would work though. In particular, how does "the scale defined by the input chord" really look like? For 1 note, 2 notes, 3 notes, etc..
Cheers,
gabriel

hey gabriel

i guess the simplest way might be to have the scale consist only of the notes simultaneously entered on the keyboard. eg if a c,e,g,a,a# or something were entered then all sequencer notes would be ‘quantised’ to these values in their respective octave (similar to how arpeggiators work) – not sure how you’d spec the ‘quantising’ but i guess you already have a method with your other force to scale function?

does that make sense?!

cheers matt

[matt avent]

What I would love (here we go again – me me me) would be to have one input of the octopus set to receive chords, and each time a chord is input (eg from an external controller keyboard) all the pages that respond to scales automatically jump to the scale defined by the input chord (and obviously all pages that are drum tracks don’t change*).

So i guess pages would need to be set to "incoming scale on port two" or something. This would be brilliant, although user preset scales would be a good work around (are these in place yet?) .

Cheers!

Matt

[matt avent]

i had a tenori-on for a few months when they first came out.

was really excited when i got it but soon realised how limited it was integration-wise and sound-wise. shame cos it’s got a good (if rather flimsy) interface. sold it for more than i paid for it though which was nice

obviously it doesn’t come close to what the octopus can achieve (and apologies if i’m seriously duplicating what others have said) but it would be fun to implement some of the tenori-ons ‘two dimensional’ features on the octopus. the rotating 2D vector tracks (for want of a better description) and the vertically bouncing notes were particular favourites, and i’m sure we can all come up with some other modes that would fun.

or maybe i’m gonna have to learn how to program this thing… :dry:

[matt avent]

I think the choice would largely depend upon how complex the music you’e making is and how many instruments you want to control.

I’m using my octopus to control about half a dozen drum machines and about a fifteen midi synths/effects. I think it would still be possible on a nemo but it would probably be too much like hard work.

If you only make tracks with a handful of parts you’ll probably get away with the nemo. If you’re greedy like me get an octopus!

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