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Quantum Parts as Fugue Machine (mini tut)
Not sure if this has been discussed but something to consider with regard to groking the power of Quantum parts:
Any single sequence in Quantum can basically replicate the mighty Fugue Machine (and then some). Of course, Fugue Machine is completely lovely and purpose designed to do its magic in a way that Quantum isn't. This isn't to take away from FM—just to illustrate the power of Quantum.
Simple illustration:
- Point Quantum at some synth with at least 4 notes of polyphony
- Tap "Setup". Under "Non-Link" for Seq 1, tap the button until it says "None"
- Create a 4 step sequence (set END to 4)
- On the right of the steps, set the scale to C Major
- On the steps, enter four ascending notes
- Configure parts (double tap on FMT in the rack or triple tap the ABCD buttons)
- Set #Parts to 2 and set both parts A + B to the range 1-4. Apply.
- Back in the sequence rack, tap the little empty box next to the white play and stop buttons. Set it to "+" so all parts start and stop together.
- Select Part B on the rack
- On the rack, double tap or drag "Tr" to set part B an octave lower (-12)
- On the rack, double tap or drag 'Tempo' and set part B to "1/2" so it runs at half the speed
- Hit play, rejoice.
- Rinse, repeat and vary as desired from step 6) above for Parts C and D.
Fun:
1. Change the loop type for one or more parts (double tap "Loop" in the rack).
2. Go the mixer and change the levels, mute/unmute parts, etc
Bonus fun:
Step probability is calculated per part. So, if you set the probability on one or more steps to something below 100% the parts will diverge/evolve. You can also adjust the start and steps per part in real time to switch it up some.
For each part, you can manipulate pretty much anything in the rack independently. Including MIDI Channel—point parts at different apps or a multi-timbral app like Layr or NS1 or Thumbjam or... Oh yeah, and follow actions are independent per part too. 
For more flexibility, copy the steps to a new range and reconfigure the parts (or a new sequence rack). Now you can change that one note/gate value/etc but only for this 'playhead.' Or skip steps, or add extra notes, ornamentation, step timing...
If you want to add another playhead, just copy the sequence to a new rack and go nuts with 8 playheads. Or 24 if your brain can take it.
For even more flexibility, copy the sequence entirely. The MIDI Delay is really fun for this sort of fugue type stuff but the FX are per sequence (or global). So if you want one playhead to remain 'dry', you'll need to use a separate rack.
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There must be someway to post these examples as Quantum files.
Thanks..
Might look like a lot of steps for a 'simple' example but you can have it up and running in under two minutes.
Will Quantum play the melody backwards?
@syrupcore well done.
Use loop type Reverse REV. Tap twice just to the right of the blue LED to the right of the word Loop. Check out all of the Loop type options there especially the Brownian, F3B2, all of the F + x options which are great for bass line variations, make sure to save variations on the right side of each Rack.
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How could I forget that part! It's one of the best differentiators. Going to add it to the OP.
I saw your attachment there for a moment. What happened?
Yes, Fugue on steroids should actually be quite simple to do in Quantum. Great! Thanks for the illustration, it serves as a good exercise to get familiar with Q.
Just had a fun one going where I made a copy of the four steps onto sliders 5-8, set it to part D, transposed it down two octaves and then adjusted the per step time so it was 2/1, 1/1, 1/2, 1/2. Same notes, same total time (four steps). App is endless.
Tried uploading a AB3 ‘Quantum’ preset... but it fails... will try later...
Soundcloud links are not rendering either this evening. Seems to be a forum problem.
I've gone through this setup a couple times now. I've got all 4 parts configured and the + sign next to the play/stop button to trigger all parts at once. Only, it sounds like ONLY part A is playing. I'm not getting any activity on parts BCD. I must've missed a setting. What have I likely got set wrong if only part A plays? I'm sending it to LayR
If you change the + sign to >, do you hear them sequentially? Or with the box empty, can you start multiple and hear them?
With the plus sign on, if they're on different MIDI channels, I'd try setting them all to one to see if they're firing (and you don't have a separate MIDI config or LayR issue).
Check the mixer in quantum to make sure they're all turned up?
Are there any follow actions set up?
Seems I can trigger each part separately via the mixer, but when I have the + set to trigger/stop all at the same time, only the LEDs light for part A. When I have it set to play them in order via the > symbol, it only plays which ever part I've selected on repeat. Doesn't jump to the next sequential part.
I'll try it again later. I switched to using Phosphor 2 instead of LayR, but it didn't make a difference. thx
Just a quick follow-up. I quit out of Quantum and started over. Used Infinite this time for the synth, but I don't think that mattered. This time, all of the parts worked just as expected and as described. Not sure why it wasn't working the first time, but I'm thinking I just had a buggy session with Quantum that got cleared up with a restart. Coolio, thx!
Do you have part B in reverse play? There seems to be a bug here. @syrupcore, try to follow the first two steps, but set B to reverse play and set that black button to ">". It doesn't play as expected, only part A is played. When B is in Forward mode, it works as expected.
... and another bug (I think): while trying these parts A and B, the level in the mixer for e.g. part A does not do anything to the sound, unless you bring it all the way down to 0.
@syrupcore - if I follow your instructions B plays 2 steps, A plays 4.
This is because on a new rack the sequence is set to Master Sync (in Setup).
When you have parts A,B,C, D say all non-A parts synchronise to A - A acts as a master, B,C & D as slaves.
If you turn off the Master sync (to None) all 4 steps of B play.
Just wanted to check thats what you expected? It was something I added only a couple of weeks ago (Master/Sync on parts).
For me it plays A steps 1.4 forward, then switches to B playing 4 steps half-speed correctly (with or without sync).
Not saying there isn't a bug here somewhere - interactions are complex, doubly so if you involve sync!
Here, part B didn't get anywhere (I think I had it at 1/4 tempo), so I turned off synch (set it to None). When ">" play is selected and B is reverse, I think only the first step in B is played now - when I have the same tempo for A and B. Sounds like a bug. When B is forward, all 4 steps are played.
Didn't we determine yesterday there is a bug using > ? In which case it's still going to be there until fixed.
I think in my case, the first session appeared to have 2 bugs. One bug was that even though the other 3 parts were playing.. the LEDs were only lighting up for Part A. The second possible bug, is that when I had the > sequential part play... Quantum wouldn't advance to the next part. It would just keep playing whichever part I'd selected.
However, after I quit Quantum... relaunched and set it all up again, everything seemed to do what I expected it to do. And, before typing this up I launched it fresh a 3rd time to see if I could reproduce the same issues, and it was fine. No bugginess at all. So, in my case... I think I just had a rogue buggy session that might've not even been related to Quantum at all.
These cases are slightly different and could be different bugs; yesterday had non-overlapping forward parts and a transposing sequence. Today we only have one sequence, with overlapping parts, and it is bug-free if both parts are forward-playing. But ">" is buggy, for sure. I started my sessions from scratch today, each time.
Thank you, this helped explain why I wasn't getting the results I expected! I'm starting to grok parts now... And thank you, @syrupcore for this recipe.
I missed this, sorry. Added a step to go into Setup and set sync to "none".