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At the moment you can only chain using song mode Link, the <> buttons on each sequence or dedicated actions - there is no pattern list (just yet)
I like that you said (just yet)
Can I ask you @midiSequencer what values or functions are you going to P-lock?
"Just yet" FTW. Longer chains and songs (sets of chains) are indeed a little confusing to create and hard to manage right now for things longer than 4 sequential parts (or 6 sequential sequences/racks). You can make infinite chains but since they have to be initiated at the individual pattern level there's no place to see your whole chain in one spot. Also means editing can be a chore, dipping in and out of different sequences/parts/versions and adjusting the follow actions again with no way to see 'the whole'.
A "pattern list" sounds perfect to me. In my mind it's a new view, perhaps full screen, with something like 7 columns—one for each sequencer/rack + a 'repeat count' column—tracker/spreadsheet style. Each sequence row would allow the user to select a version and one or more parts. Hitting play on this page or setting MODE=SONG would play the selected "rows" in order, each row playing N times as indicated by the repeat count row. Otherwise, the normal play modes would take precedence.
Slightly more advanced versions of this could allow for transposition and clock divisions per sequence, per row. So each row would be something like
That way, if you have a bassline that you'd like to simply transpose in a different way for the next 'measure', there's no need to create a second transposed part/version or use a transposition source pattern. Just create it once and transpose it as needed in the chain/song view.
Other stuff that could be fun: separate start and end 'loop' points for each sequence column so that you might rearrange pattern chains per sequence on the fly. This would also allow you to work on a specific section of a longer song without having to listen all the way to that part monkey about with changing the first few rows to replicate a section... Probability on the repeat count? Probability to skip a row? Global transpose for a row? Utilitarian stuff like 'Insert row', etc, would also of course be handy.
some interesting crosspost....
"There are a few differences. Ease of use is one, P-Locks are simple to implement and fast. But you can't easily draw automation curves like you can in Ableton/MPC. To simulate a curve, you have to create "triggerless trigs" (I really despise the "trig" nomenclature) and P-Lock those. I think anyway. As far as I can tell P-Lock values "jump" from trig to trig. Which is fine on short percussive samples, but if you have a longer sample you would need to use trigless trigs to make a curve, or the single LFO.
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response"P-locks do jump from step to step.
In other Elektron gear they have ‘Slides’ which allow the smooth transition of P-locks from one step to another. No slides on Digitakt. "
first time I'd heard of 'slides.. good to know
J74 steplockers has slides for plocks. They work quite nicely tbh.
that's max 4live right?
All good stuff! I'm probably going to have to buy an Analog Four to really understand this though! I want to make Quantum more groovy & tweakable - so groove templates, p-locks all help.