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Cool.
You can duplicate Pattern lanes to predetermine Pattern Lane length.
The Pattern length determines the overall length that a Pattern Lane should play for.
Note that the Pattern length automatically increases in size
when a CLIP length gets longer than the current Pattern length.
Put the request through over on the Beepstreet Forum and if it's needed then it will be implemented at some point.
Related: Long tap on the leftmost encircled "01" on the first pattern lane in clip matrix, and change > @_smund said:
Have you tried the leftmost cell in the clip matrix, the one with "01", "02", etc.? Long tap and change will set all track clips in that row to the chosen setting.
I have mentioned propblems with these step counts at the beepstreet forum in the past. Doesn't seem to be top priority.
@bleep
Jesus man that seems pretty obligatory. IDK, with all the heaps and praise Drambo gets I’d think they would iron out some this type of stuff.
I see they had 3 minor updates last 3 months, then it jumps to 1 year since last.
I new here, I feel a but silly, but I still would like to ask if you guys know how they adress updates in regards to community feedback?
I’m considering setting up all my synths in LP or Drambo, use LP for instruments (and synths sometimes) and 2.0 MIDI is on the rails.
Fairly easy to set up alternations between smaller parts of a song in LP.
Still it seems like you can get “a Ton done” in Drambo!
A concern:
Today when I changed to part two of a song in Drambo manually (I pressed 02 I think), the clock, “Beat”, lost tempo with the song and kept playing.
Anything similar (loosing tempo, off kilter) happen with y’all using Auv3 synths? I should perhaps refrain from pressing parts of the song how I did that
@Gravitas
Do I still have to individually change all 8 instruments pattern length like in the video?
(Boring vid 2)
https://youtube.com/shorts/mW6KLdOaQHQ?si=lolJdDoTYOyvCgir
Thanks all
Both Giku and the Beta Team worked trielessly for 3 years,
life happens we all needed to take rest from providing free support and decided to focus on other things.
The next few updates will show what we have been focused on.
Giku irons out bugs as soon as he finds them alongside adapting to every yearly iOS update.
www.Forum.Beepstreet.com
We certainly can.
On the right hand side of the screen are the Loop and Pattern change buttons.
You can have the CLIP change by Pattern or Bar.
Sounds like you were using Bar.
You're welcome.
@Gravitas
Hey G, I didn’t know you were working on it!
Are Drambo in here? That is cool, I would suspect it.
Thanks for enlightening me about “Loop/Pattern change” buttons
G, with my boring Vid 2 I wanted to make sure If have to duplicate all instruments lanes manually?
-Do I have to duplicate all 8 instrument lanes manually for it to work?
I Just want to know 100% before I ask(:
TY BTW, It is good to know there is a solution!
I did try to google before I went yonder.
I know iOS music apps probably dosen’t make you roll around in icecream toppings but In my defence they made the best midi sequencer available those 3 years, I thought it would be “best” for hardware as well and automatically have reach and footprint that way.
I’ll search/make a forum post over at beepstreet.
-It seemes like a valid concern to be able to make pattern changes without having to make 32 presses each time.
it’s important to know the APP is active before you jump ship,
Have as many breaks as you like guys, I should try to find a donate button for y’all to read my longass post
I became a part of the dRambo beta team a couple months after it was released.
No worries.
I haven't looked at it yet as I was in gospel rehearsal today.
Yes, I'm singing a gospel song.
No, just duplicate when you need more.
No harm in asking.
The Beepstreet Forum will provide far better answers.
There are more than enough forum members now to provide support
and alongside that there's a bunch of stuff that you can look at in regards to learning dRambo.
Midi Clock, sync, synthesis, effects processing and it goes on.
Actually they do, I mentioned this in another thread recently.
I've been quite active over the years in support the platform, iOS app users and iOS apps in general.
I've done a ton of beta testing for many of the iOS apps as well.
Good move.
Agreed.
Agreed.
The app is certainly active.
There's the Beepstreet Forum, here on the Loopy Pro forum and we have 2k members in the dRambo FB group.
I've also sighted dRambo on Mod Wiggler, KVAudio and the Elektron Forum.
The Eurorack crew have also started delving into dRambo
as a sequencer for their EuroRack rigs, myself included, and dRambo is making really nice ripples.
There's a modular "group" stateside and all three of them use dRambo as a sequencer and effects processor.
I can't remeber the group offhand however they do have a thread on the Beepstreet forum.
I don't know if they use the synthesis side of dRambo.
Take the leap, we'll catch you, no problem.
Anyways, even if we don't have an update for another year personally speaking I'm cool.
dRambo is at the heart of my personal sketching, composing rig and it's rock solid
unless I do something that makes it crash and when I make it crash we fix it.
Thanks.
By the way
I actually have a donation button.
I'll get it.
Here it is.
paypal.me/IshmaelPamphille
My real name is Ishmael Pamphille by the way.
Ish to my friends.
@_smund
In regards to your 2nd video.
Set the Pattern length in the Pattern lane so that all of the CLIP's have the same length.
You can go in and adjust the individual lengths of CLIP's afterwards via the Button that has a pen angled on it.
That Button is to the immediate right of the Looping section in the middle.
@Gravitas Thanks for the feedback.
I’m looking around but I can’t find the way to do it..
(: I googled a bit, the videos I found were to old I think.
I would like to “set pattern length in the pattern lane”, does that make all 8 insts the same length? Can you help with a mark up and how to?
@_smund I wrote how to do that, just scroll up a bit. Here is the main part:
Have you tried the leftmost cell in the clip matrix, the one with "01", "02", etc.? Long tap and change will set all track clips in that row to the chosen setting.
@bleep There we go! Tremendous, hope to be on my way. TY
It seems in Drambo. Either midi app ( loopy or Surface Builder ) You can only choose Drambo or Bluetooth, when setting the in app midi command. This means it will only map to the transport of the ipad the app is on, when choosing Drambo. Or another ipad when choosing bluetooth.
With aum. I think perhaps just loopy will work because loopy gives you a midi out option but more importantly because aum has a matrix to get midi out ( to aum midi transport ) and bluetooth also in the matrix ( So another aum transport on another ipad )
Loopy should be ok ( as a controller ) but dosent seem like it can trigger transport controls in Drambo, using loopy midi and also bluetooth out, using loopy midi.
Its either or in Drambo.
Or works in Aum because of a matrix.
I've tried, but I can't seem to sort out what you're asking here.
Are you asking if Drambo can get a "Peripheral Advertising" option for Bluetooth MIDI so that it can make the iPad appear as a Bluetooth Peripheral without having to resort to another app to establish the connection?
Its not issue using an ipad to connect via bluetooth to another ipad. I can even bluetooth to multi ipads ( from 1 pad )
Apps like midi generators or drum pad apps. Keyboards etc. Are ok to setup.
Its just mapping from loopy midi out, to a transport button ( say Drambo record ) on the host ipad but also the same transport record button on a reciever bluetooth ipad.
With aum. It has an output matix so you route loopy to midi control ( transport )
Then also route to the bluetooth ipad.
but when using Drambo. It seems you dont need these midi out modules to route midi around a host or bluetooth ipad.
You can select the source, when making the midi command button ( in loopy or Surface builder )
Thats the issue.
You have to choose one or the other.
The aum host method is making a loopy button, with midi ch and cc number ( selecting midi out ) I guess and not aum or bluetooth. Then using aum matrix.
With Drambo as the host. You dont have a midi matrix so wonder if theres output modules scenarios you might use.
When I buy my din controller. Its fine. Although Im liking the idea of toggled and similar visual looking buttons you can make from midi app, instead of hardware controller.
It were also to see how my setup might be in future using multiple ipads because of usbC ipads making it probably not work ( I need headphone out of the 3rd ipad )
These universal commands can let me navigate Drambo patterns across ipads. So editing is easier when going back and forth through patterns etc. A multiipad song mode editing.
Im just back in the game though, so still unsure if a midi DAW is my thing.
I havent seen any decent DAWs to use one ipad screen ( cubasis or logic )
Where iv got multi screens already, I could just use them as sources to a loopy pro host ipad yet.
I sold a faderfox pc12 that also had midi merger plus buttons so 3 ipads recieve din. If it were 2 ipads to the iconnett audio4c. I could just use my usb connected launchpad. For the few universal commands I need the same across ipads.
I already bought a cme midi merger ( that works )
but need to buy a cool kinda cheap. 4fader, 4 knob, 4 button custom din controller you get on ebay.
So that iv got a faderfox pc12 replacement ( for these universal commands across ipads )
Id did try just using an Faderfox EC4 0-127 cc command via encoder but a bit tempramental, when the midi mapping needed would best be with just button on/off command.
The controller will also be useful as a 4 deck mixer in a dj app ( along with more knobs for effects on the faderfox ec4 )
Theres no reason why a controller I havent bought yet shouldnt work yet.
Or I need to re-evaluate my life.
This is my only question.
My other writings were just for the sake of typing ( and how it works with midi din ) for now.
@sigma79
I think I'm beginning to understand. You would like to route MIDI out of Loopy running as a plugin in Drambo to multiple destinations - to Drambo's transport on other iPads and also to Drambo's transport on the same iPad. But you only have these options for the output from the Loopy plugin. You don't see the other connected iPads.
You see that in AUM there is the routing matrix where you can send the output of Loopy plugin to multiple places and are looking for the equivalent in Drambo?
Is that correct?
If so, then I think you've already found the answer. Rather than having a MIDI matrix like AUM has, Drambo uses MIDI-Out modules. You just have to add one module for each output that you want.
Thanks.
I think the issue is.
You have to choose the source from the app and the modules arnt needed anyway nor do anything different when added.
So if you choose Drambo in loopy. You can then map the ipads transport.
If you choose bluetooth in Loopy. You can map the bluetooth reciever ipads transport.
Adding a module next to loopy dosent act as a sort of splitter.
Like choosing Drambo in loopy for host ipad midi but then a Drambo module output set to Bluetooth.
It seems like the only way Drambo can work, is already made via the apps.
Its either Drambo or bluetooth.
.
I'm sorry @sigma79 - no matter how many times I read those two last posts, I can't figure out what the actual problem you're describing is. Is there any way you could put it into terms like:
I want to be able to do this: ...
But I can't because of this: ...
I just dont think Drambo can route to its transport and another bluetooth ipads transport because iv noticed with some apps. Loopy. Surface builder. Woodtroller etc. You have to start the destination in the app. So then you cant seem to route to host transport plus a bluetooth transport. You can only choose 1 setting in the midi app. The Drambo modules dont seem to do anything for the output path that the midi app isnt already doing. Unless the modules are the key to making it work ?
So once ou have chosen the destination in the midi app to finalise the midi command.
It dosent then seem like a case of just adding a Drambo midiout module set to bluetooth ( if the midi app is set for Drambo )
Or vice versa ( Bluetooth out via midi app and a Drambo module output set to Drambo )
Sorry @sigma79 - I just can't make sense of what you're saying. Maybe someone else can help.
Ok.
Its probably just a case of describing how the modules iv added in Drambo ( the pic I added )
How these might work etc.
I should confirm. From your post. You know what I need to work.
So it really is how will the output modules work from the pic.
@sigma79 : are you asking how a midi message from a loopy AU loaded in Drambo can be routed to trigger Drambo’s transport?
Yes but also bluetooth to another ipads transport.
If I choose bluetooth in loopy midi setting ( when setting midi ch and cc )
It then will only trigger the bluetooth app.
If I choose Drambo in loopy midi setting ( when setting midi ch and cc )
It then will only trigger the host Drambo transport.
So then when you add Drambo output module after loopy. Say set to bluetooth ( if loopy is set to Drambo ) Will still only work like if theres no module.
So then when you add Drambo output module after loopy. Say set Drambo ( if loopy is set to bluetooth ) Will still only work like if theres no module.
The output modules are perhaps the key to making it work like aum.
Which shows the loopy midi routing to aums midi transport but also bluetooth out
The Drambo modules I cant seem to make work the same way, using output modules.
Dont worry about the bluetooth names. Drambo dosent update when you change the name of sender ipad ( in aum ) It probably has updated now though.
Oh. Are you wondering how to send midi to more than one destination from a button in Loopy Pro? You do that by adding one action for each destination:
Of course.
Havent used ipad for ages.
It can now work.
Futureproof modular Drambo via multi screens ( why not if you are using Drambo anyway lol )
Thanks.
With all these new releases and the growing forest of vibe coded apps, I’m still having a blast with and (re)discovering/ learning Drambo. The only thing I dislike is that knobs and buttons are separate modules. It would be so much nicer to be able to design/ place these controllers in a grid by ourselves.
I feel the same regarding “still having a blast and discovering”. Although it’s been my main host a couple years now, i still learn new things.
As for dislikes, despite years of use, i cannot commit this one thing to muscle memory: If everything is hidden/collapsed and i want to see the keyboard, i almost always touch the tab to reveal the pattern launcher instead of the keyboard. It’s f*ckin maddening. I have to force myself to stop and think about which opens what.
Also, the amount of times i inadvertently made it go into “select output” mode 😩
But i would do it all over again if i could go back
Multiple times. Every single session. And there's no easy way out unless you can remember which thingy you touched to trigger it. It's gotten so that I just chuckle about it now though.
2nd favorite host, and as a plugin vies for 1st place with another sequencer. Drambo is amazing, and for the simple things I do with it, ironically one of the simplest apps to use, despite the high levels of intimidation it triggers in people.