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  • jolicojolico

    It’s 909 day!!!

  • gregsmithgregsmith

    Is there a way to pitch a sound the in built samples up without using the sequencer?

    I almost always pitch up hats and snares but want to be able to play this with midi.

  • wimwim
    edited September 2021

    @gregsmith said:
    Is there a way to pitch a sound the in built samples up without using the sequencer?

    I almost always pitch up hats and snares but want to be able to play this with midi.

    By coincidence, I was looking for that too just the other day. I don't think you can do it without the sequencer.

    I can kind of understand why @brambos would elect to leave that out. If he put pitch in, then people would look for attack, sample start point, etc. etc. etc.. A lot of thought went into the simplicity / capability tradeoffs.

  • gregsmithgregsmith

    @wim said:

    @gregsmith said:
    Is there a way to pitch a sound the in built samples up without using the sequencer?

    I almost always pitch up hats and snares but want to be able to play this with midi.

    By coincidence, I was looking for that too just the other day. I don't think you can do it without the sequencer.

    I can kind of understand why @brambos would elect to leave that out. If he put pitch in, then people would look for attack, sample start point, etc. etc. etc.. A lot of thought went into the simplicity / capability tradeoffs.

    Yeah makes sense. Wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something. Thanks @wim

  • sharifkerbagesharifkerbage

    How possible would be to add a repeat feature for the sequence mode (x2, x3, ... )?
    It'd be sort of a "song mode".

  • BietfriekBietfriek
    edited September 2021

    After loading some presets and my own kits I found that the volume knob doesn’t go all the way down. With the individual mixer settings all the way down and the volume knob on zero, most of the sounds will go to “red” in AUM. Also tested with the individual mixer all the way up (if it would behave like some sort of attenuator) but nothing. Did other people experience this? Only experience this with the Multibus output.

  • attakkattakk
    edited September 2021

    @gregsmith said:
    I can kind of understand why @brambos would elect to leave that out. If he put pitch in, then people would look for attack, sample start point, etc. etc. etc.. A lot of thought went into the simplicity / capability tradeoffs.

    I love his approach of “this is it - if it works for you as-is then great, but if not then don’t expect me to change it so it does; I’ll release bug fixes and I MAY add stuff in future that I think is cool that I’m sure you’ll think is cool - but apart from that THIS is it”

    I wish more devs pushed back like that: I hate it when an app works great in it’s original form & for what I thus bought it for (even if it does have the odd quirk here & there), but then gets destabilised because someone with some really obscure & strange/complex workflow (that they refuse to compromise) wants/demands new features added so as to use it in that workflow, features that I’ll never use.

  • trifftriff

    Hiya, thanks for an amazing app!

    I'm sequencing from a Synthstrom Deluge and I've run into the same issue I have with my TR-8S where the notes for the drum sounds are spread across several octaves. So I have something like: kick, snare, nothing, nothing, nothing, clap, nothing, rimshot, nothing, nothing, nothing...and so on.

    Is there any way to remap the notes in Hammerhead to make them appear consecutively on the same screen?

    Thanks!

  • uncledaveuncledave

    @triff said:
    Hiya, thanks for an amazing app!

    I'm sequencing from a Synthstrom Deluge and I've run into the same issue I have with my TR-8S where the notes for the drum sounds are spread across several octaves. So I have something like: kick, snare, nothing, nothing, nothing, clap, nothing, rimshot, nothing, nothing, nothing...and so on.

    Is there any way to remap the notes in Hammerhead to make them appear consecutively on the same screen?

    Thanks!

    You could use a StreamByter script to convert consecutive MIDI notes into the black notes preferred by Hammerhead. I could write that. Which notes do you want to use?

  • uncledaveuncledave

    @triff . This ought to do it.

    #MapDrumNotes

If load
  Alias $60 firstNote # first note
  Alias 8 noteCount # number of notes to map
  # mapped output notes. These are the Ruismaker black notes.
  Ass K0 = $49 $51 $54 $56 $58 $61 $63 $66
End

# process note off and note on
If MT < A0
  If M1 >= firstNote
    Mat I00 = M1 - firstNote
    # only modify notes in the range
    If I00 < noteCount
      Ass M1 = KI00 # replace the note with mapped value
    End
  End
End

    You load Hammerhead as an instrument in Audiobus. Load StreamByter as MIDI effect, paste this program and Install Rules. Add your controller as MIDI input, and route the output to Hammerhead (Instance A). Tap on the magnifier in StreamByter and you can see the notes being transformed. You can change the first note to be mapped, and you can re-order the output notes if you like.

  • gsm909gsm909

    @brambos I’ve been playing around with the topograph sequencer in MiRack , suggested by @wim. The channel mutes in Hammerheads mixer view don’t seem to function when a sound is triggered by the sequencer in MiRack. The volume sliders are working but not the mutes. Could this be fixed ?
    Thanks

  • brambosbrambos

    @gsm909 said:
    @brambos I’ve been playing around with the topograph sequencer in MiRack , suggested by @wim. The channel mutes in Hammerheads mixer view don’t seem to function when a sound is triggered by the sequencer in MiRack. The volume sliders are working but not the mutes. Could this be fixed ?

    I've updated the behavior of MIDI triggering to respect the channel mutes. Update is on the way! B)

  • gsm909gsm909

    @brambos said:
    I've updated the behavior of MIDI triggering to respect the channel mutes. Update is on the way! B)

    @brambos Thats super, thanks

  • gusgranitegusgranite

    @brambos said:

    @gsm909 said:
    @brambos I’ve been playing around with the topograph sequencer in MiRack , suggested by @wim. The channel mutes in Hammerheads mixer view don’t seem to function when a sound is triggered by the sequencer in MiRack. The volume sliders are working but not the mutes. Could this be fixed ?

    I've updated the behavior of MIDI triggering to respect the channel mutes. Update is on the way! B)

    Nice to see you still have time for us @brambos ... :wink:

    Uberdev status maintained! :star:

  • brambosbrambos

    @gusgranite said:

    @brambos said:

    @gsm909 said:
    @brambos I’ve been playing around with the topograph sequencer in MiRack , suggested by @wim. The channel mutes in Hammerheads mixer view don’t seem to function when a sound is triggered by the sequencer in MiRack. The volume sliders are working but not the mutes. Could this be fixed ?

    I've updated the behavior of MIDI triggering to respect the channel mutes. Update is on the way! B)

    Nice to see you still have time for us @brambos ... :wink:

    Of course I have! Just less time for loitering around here :)

  • ronniebronnieb

    @brambos any chance you could make the mutes midi mappable too? 😇

  • rogprogp

    Is there anyway to tell which preset is in use when using HH in cubasis for example. This is mystifying me!

  • dokwok2dokwok2

    @brambos, How can I transfer my user presets to a new iPad? (I did reread the thread and manual.)

  • uncledaveuncledave

    @rogp said:
    Is there anyway to tell which preset is in use when using HH in cubasis for example. This is mystifying me!

    Generally, when you save a project or session in a hosting app, the AUv3s are not using any preset. You probably began by loading a preset in the app, but you could have changed it before saving the host project. Once you restore a project in the host, the app is just using a bunch of data provided by the host, not a specific preset. The app cannot tell which preset that data originated from. This is inconvenient, but it really is how it has to be.

  • craftycuratecraftycurate

    @uncledave said:

    @rogp said:
    Is there anyway to tell which preset is in use when using HH in cubasis for example. This is mystifying me!

    Generally, when you save a project or session in a hosting app, the AUv3s are not using any preset. You probably began by loading a preset in the app, but you could have changed it before saving the host project. Once you restore a project in the host, the app is just using a bunch of data provided by the host, not a specific preset. The app cannot tell which preset that data originated from. This is inconvenient, but it really is how it has to be.

    It seems to depend whether the plugin offers the preset name as a parameter to the host DAW when the host saves the plugin state. Some plugins do reload with preset name recalled, some (e.g. Lagrange) don't, though they may recall the parameters that make up the preset.

  • craftycuratecraftycurate

    @uncledave said:

    @rogp said:
    Is there anyway to tell which preset is in use when using HH in cubasis for example. This is mystifying me!

    Generally, when you save a project or session in a hosting app, the AUv3s are not using any preset. You probably began by loading a preset in the app, but you could have changed it before saving the host project. Once you restore a project in the host, the app is just using a bunch of data provided by the host, not a specific preset. The app cannot tell which preset that data originated from. This is inconvenient, but it really is how it has to be.

    It seems to depend whether the plugin offers the preset name as a parameter to the host DAW when the host saves the plugin state. Some plugins do reload with preset name recalled, some (e.g. Lagrange) don't, though they may recall the parameters that make up the preset.

  • rogprogp

    Thank you @uncledave and @craftycurate. Good points for me to ponder.

  • gregsmithgregsmith

    @brambos hammerhead is my absolute go to for drums in loopy pro. I love how you can play the patterns via midi unquantised, as I can use the loopy quantisation and not miss the first beat.

    Anyhow, one thing I’d love to request is the ability to put in original bpm for user sample ‘breaks’. Don’t want timestretching or anything, just a way to make it fit the pattern length perfectly like the built in breaks do.

  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]

    @gregsmith said:
    @brambos hammerhead is my absolute go to for drums in loopy pro. I love how you can play the patterns via midi unquantised, as I can use the loopy quantisation and not miss the first beat.

    hmmm. is that using clips to trigger midi via follow actions or something?

  • brambosbrambos

    No, just stop the internal sequencer and trigger the sequences using MIDI.

  • lukesleepwalkerlukesleepwalker

    @gregsmith said:
    @brambos hammerhead is my absolute go to for drums in loopy pro. I love how you can play the patterns via midi unquantised, as I can use the loopy quantisation and not miss the first beat.

    Anyhow, one thing I’d love to request is the ability to put in original bpm for user sample ‘breaks’. Don’t want timestretching or anything, just a way to make it fit the pattern length perfectly like the built in breaks do.

    Same here. I was originally going to loop HH in Loopy but then I found how much i love HH mutation feature to keep drum loops fresh. Works perfectly to send a follow action note to HH to change patterns!

  • gregsmithgregsmith
    edited March 2022

    @SimonSomeone said:

    @gregsmith said:
    @brambos hammerhead is my absolute go to for drums in loopy pro. I love how you can play the patterns via midi unquantised, as I can use the loopy quantisation and not miss the first beat.

    hmmm. is that using clips to trigger midi via follow actions or something?

    Yep that’s exactly what I do, using dummy clips with the play/stop follow actions.

    Misses the first beat with drambo, polybeat, koala… even Rozeta xox I think!… basically all the other ones I have, cos they all try and quantize, even when instantaneous pattern switching is enabled.

  • brambosbrambos

    @dokwok2 said:
    @brambos, How can I transfer my user presets to a new iPad? (I did reread the thread and manual.)

    You can open a zip-file with your presets using Hammerhead to add your presets on the new iPad.

    In order to find your current presets, you can find them in the folder Hammerhead > Backup. You'll probably need a computer to zip them.

  • anicktanickt

    @brambos said:

    @dokwok2 said:

    >

    You can open a zip-file with your presets using Hammerhead to add your presets on the new iPad.

    In order to find your current presets, you can find them in the folder Hammerhead > Backup. You'll probably need a computer to zip them.

    Why would you need a computer to zip them?

  • brambosbrambos

    @anickt said:

    @brambos said:

    @dokwok2 said:

    >

    You can open a zip-file with your presets using Hammerhead to add your presets on the new iPad.

    In order to find your current presets, you can find them in the folder Hammerhead > Backup. You'll probably need a computer to zip them.

    Why would you need a computer to zip them?

    Nice! Never even looked for that. That should work fine indeed!

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