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Already there.
Yeah, dragging isn't there yet, only tapping.
Sorry for silly questions…. If I am doing step input and lets say I enter 6 notes and decide that I dont like it…. I can undo or select and delete. BUT for the life of me I cant get the cursor to go back to the start.. it always picks up where I last entered note was. How can I get it back to start ?
Any thoughts on this function being supported / possible with scripting or an update? @blueveek
Tap on the ruler. It'll set the playhead position. Step input follows the playhead.
Yes! I do think it's interesting, thanks for the ping. I'll just need to find the time to make it possible, and see how I can incorporate it in my own compositions to get a proper feel for how it works. I generally find it much easier to design something if I'm actively using it, so that's the big hurdle with this one.
...and here’s a little a preview of multi-channel Atom2 in action
Ohh my!!! This is iOS Ableton! right there
those channels could also be played independently with the launchpad? or I will need separate Atom instances?
If you want individual control of each track, including launching and muting/unmuting, it will almost always be better to have these in separate clips. Especially if you want to control them via launchpad.
However, if you’re happy for your tracks to always be locked in sequence together, and prefer them all to be controlled from one clip, multi-channel could be the option you want.
the real beauty about multi-channel mode is that clips can now trigger more than one plugin simultaneously. so you could have a ‘drum’ clip that orchestrates several drum plugins together as if they were a single app.
Awesome, thx!> @tk32 said:
Apologies. Tapping on the Atom keyboard is what I thought he meant.
Cool!
Is there any way to select which midi channels notes one wants to edit?!
This could maybe be an extra tick next to the track number in the Midi Output Menu?
(I know I'm 'simple minded' and love to keep the number of instances down and that's another sign if 'Tracker Damage' ie. one complete pattern per song-section).
This is still very early stages for multi-channel editing and playback but rest assured, Blueveek already knows how nice it would be to have hide/lock/target controls.
In the works.
Fixed that for ya there @tk32
Cool! Will take it for a spin when it drops...
...it's another game-changer for Atom 2
Thanks @Intrepolicious
I was, clearly, far too excited about the new layer of possibilities this unleashes to stop and think about grammar.
With multiple channels available per note you've taken it to a level beyond even FL Studio desktop, which many consider the best piano roll of any DAW. 👏 @blueveek !
@blueveek hate to ask again if it has already been asked or answered. but is midi cc automation getting close to release? this was one of those features missing that keeps me from really digging into atom2. right now i get started atom and have to go somewhere else to get cc automation going.
I want to put in a +1 for the step triggering idea, and mention how well it would work alongside the new multi-channel option.
Apologies if this has already been discussed, I searched but couldn't find anything.
Pattern switching works fine in AUM, but when I try to trigger different patterns in Drambo, I get inconsistent behavior. On occasion everything works as expected, other times only every other pattern gets triggered, and sometimes it gets stuck on just one pattern and refuses to change. Is there an incompatibility between pattern switching and Drambo's sequencer, or am I overlooking something?
I even tried triggering the change from another Atom in place of Drambo's built in sequencer, but that didn't work either.
I should mention, I'm using "Note" to trigger the changes.
I'm not sure if you know that patterns automagically map to Drambo patterns or not. If you put an Atom on a track, then you make three Atom patterns and three Drambo patterns, when you switch Drambo to pattern 1, 2, or 3, the corresponding pattern will trigger in Atom. No notes or other triggering required.
I wonder if maybe you're combining triggering patterns with notes and Drambo pattern changes. Could that be the point of confusion? You would get confusing results like that if you were.
You can choose not to have the auto synchronization between Drambo and Atom patterns if that's what you want. (I haven't tried doing that but I know you can.)
I like how you can long press on the loop brace to select, but it doesn’t select the full range if there are no notes on the first and last beat (see first pic). I’m finding it a bit tricky to select an exact measure and often end up with more or less than I want. Is there another quick way I’m missing to select the exact measure I want?
Actually I guess I can just take the long press loop brace selection, paste it to the beginning of a new pattern and nudge it 1 grid measure. That’s pretty painless.
@blueveek ... I still seem to be having issues. I'm doing the same kind of process, taking a 32 bar clip with some drum midi in it, and copying sections, and pasting them into new patterns, within the same instance of Atom...
I made a video of what was going on, but i can describe it easily enough. The video's pretty boring...
After I'd pasted copied and pasted 4 bars of midi into a new pattern, I'd select the original pattern to grab some more midi. It took approx 20 seconds for the Atom window to update to show the contents of that pattern. It took about 45 seconds for the loop brace to respond to my input. I repeatedly pressed, held, dragged etc. Zoomed in and out to try again several times. Eventually it just responded but honestly I counted the seconds in my head, so not exactly precise, but I got to 45 before anything happened.
I restarted my iPad and had another try. After this the pattern updated quite quickly, a few seconds, so I thought all was well, but I still couldn't get the loop brace to move.
I guess maybe I should try it in a new AUM project, with no other plugins instantiated to rule out something else interfering somehow. I can send you the video, and the project again if you like.
Edit: I've just gone back to the project after writing the above, i can add notes so it hasn't frozen, but the loop brace will still not respond...
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A further update, I tried in an empty AUM project and initially everything was working smoothly. however after I cloned and nudged a selection, the loop brace froze. After I switched patterns and back again, it moved properly. However something else slightly strange was going on with the loop brace. I extended it from 1 bar to 4 bars, yet only the first bar would loop. Looking at the pattern thumbnail, I could see it was showing a 1 bar brace even though the main window brace was 4 bars. Eventually by moving it around it was looping properly, but at one point I had 3 bars looping within the 4 bar brace.
I tried replicating the steps but the same problem didn't occur, so I don't think it was those specific steps.
Maybe it would be better to make these communications via DM, I don't want to be posting negative things when most people are having a great time with Atom!
Oh there's only one other small thing, that is probably irrelevant but I'll mention it just in case it's not. The midi from Soft Drummer sometimes seems to have notes of very limited duration at the beginning of the bar. I can't select them, but they show up as very thin lines. I''l take a screen shot.
EDIT: I can't actually get Atom to zoom in now to take a suitable screen shot, but it turns out I could select those tiny bits of midi. Strangely, though they start at the beginning of a bar, long pressing the loop brace doesn't include them in the selection. Anyay, sadly I really can't seem to use the app currently.
More trials. I realised I had added Slammer at some point in the above trial, as I need to hear what was happening. Which invalidated my intent to try it by itself.
So I tried a new AUM project with nothing else, and everything was working very well for about 10 minutes. So I added slammer again, and sure enough things started to go wrong in a similar fashion. loop brace and zooming problems in particular. I deleted slammer but it didn't seem to totally fix things. In addition a new quirk appeared, when I'd past something from the clipboard to the playhead position, it sometimes ended up somewhere else, like a bar too late and once too early. Not sure if it was precisely a bar, but definitely in the wrong place.
Not sure if Slammer in particular has anything to do with it, but I have been using slammer in all my tests as it responds nicely to the different velocities from the Soft Drummer midi patterns I'd recorded into Atom.
I didn't know that. I think that might be the culprit. Thanks for your help.
I'll try to figure out how to disable the sync and see if that helps.
Sweet - looks like I can have e.g. drums on channel 1, bass on channel 2, pads on channel 3, ... and control them all from a single Atom instance. That'll reduce the cognitive load of keeping track of lots of Atoms
A few questions:
I'm gonna love this feature even if the answer to all 3 is "no"
Oh, There was nothing wrong with your grammar. I just didn’t want anyone to get the impression that they were limited to only drum tracks with the new multi channel feature.