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Just wondering if somebody (youbody?) want a stable velocity option? Soft 0-50, medium 51-120, hard 121-127?
I have not found a way to either
-make all steps into the value I hold on the coarse tuning slider
-make instrument steps the same valueo
or similar
Nope. I do not want that kind of mechanized rigidity in Patterning 3. I have that up to my eyeballs elsewhere. But I could see how some kind of snap to grid might be helpful to others though.
Do you watch the numeric display at the top? It shows the coarse tuning in semitones, the velocity, etc, clearly. I find it easy to make steps exactly the similar watching the numbers.
Not sure if this is what you’re after but if you hold down the alt button and select the ‘vel’ option that pops up you can set course tune for all the steps
@FordTimeLord helleu
I tried holding down course tune, but I still have to set vel on individual steps with each step slider, right ? If that is the case it is almost impossible to get the same vel for 16 CHH.
Ah, I think I misunderstood what you’re trying to do. It might be worth reaching out to the dev about it
A workaround could be to just reduce your CHH pattern to one step and modulate the course tune
Ah my bro but I need to be able to variation. It’s that thing of silence between notes creates the importance of them? I like to insert variation in the beats but on the back of stability. So yea, maybe I will run mostly the same velocity or pitch on 16/16 hats, but then I will take out some hats. I would need to make a whole new pattern only to make variation in the hats, ending up with many fluff patterns to switch between.
-The perfect solution would be to hold a slide on the right that snaps to grid between Soft Medium Hard and place the hits with the left hand.
-The easy solution would be having simply that the values you place on the drumtrack (between 0-127) could fall within those ranges, with a tick box.
-The slightly worky solution would be to have the slider dictate the velocity of all hits on that instrument, and you would retroactively go back and adjust the variations
What do you all think?
The dev is quite active on his discord and you can make feature requests there too, maybe try reaching out to him there?
In the meantime there are still ways to add variation. For example, you could add an empty step to the pattern or you could play around with the different step duration settings.
I mean if everything is different all the time, no set velocities I can’t do variation. If I cant have something it be regular I can’t punctuate with a difference, that kind of thing. Its seems counter intuitive to me to have every CHH be slightly different, i prefer sometimes mediom, sometimes high, and then break it up with parts that are mudulated. I would like a way to even all hits to be the same value at least
Couldn't you use the LFO to do what you want?
I'm a bit surprised that there is no bundle for owners of Patterning 2, not only that, P2 is gone from the AppStore.
If you already own Patterning 2 it can still be downloaded from your purchase history
very nice video
Ben's been killing it with his recent uploads. very good stuff. I've been a patterning fan since iPhone.
I'm not the only one inspired by P3, check this out....
Hi. I just bought Patterning 3 and I have problem in Garageband.
By default when I start play track in Garageband, both Patterning 3 (green line) and Hammerhead (red line) play drums.
But, when in Hammerhead I TURN OFF the red light in the "play" button, then Hammerhead play recorded part (blue line) only. I would like to achieve the same result to Patterning 3 play recorded part (yellow line) only.
Q1: How do I record notes using Pattern 3 in GarageBand? (when I start recording, it is records only empty part, and only as short as shown in the screenshots).
Q2: Can I switch something in Patterning 3 (like TURN OFF red light in Hammerhead) to Garageband play recorded part (yellow line) only?
Thanks in advance for advice.
When exporting individual MIDI files from Patterning 3, only three out of the eight tracks/sounds are exported. Multiple attempts, reloaded the app multiple times. iOS 18.7.2, iPad Air 5. Anyone else seeing this? @benkamen
I just did a quick test. I'm seeing all tracks exported.
@musikeer - how are you determining that not all tracks are being exported? Are you playing something back from the midi file, or are you looking at the actual content of the file(s).
I’m looking at the results in Patterning’s results list within the standalone, also within the folder in the Patterning folder in the Files app. They’re not there. Using two different kits. Which kit did you successfully export all MIDI tracks from? I’ve used Patterning 2 extensively, new to 3, but it’s not behaving as I’d expect. Thanks for checking in to it!
I’ve (unsuccessfully) exported from the PureCussion Djembe and 70’s Sausalito kits.
Is MIDI enabled on all of the tracks?
And curiouser (!), at times, and just now it’s exported only 7 of the 8 sounds. And it seems using different kits, different results. All 8 with the Nature Beats kit, 3 with Purecussion Congas. Repeatable.
Check your settings.
It seems definitely to export different amounts of tracks depending on the kit. A bug in the kit creation, P3 not exporting correctly from kits made in earlier versions of Patterning?
I see what’s happening: the MIDI export is dependent on how the samples are named in their actual audio samples. So if there are duplicate named kit layers, only one of them will export. Which is a problem going forward, using previously acquired kits and having to manually correct all the layer/sample names. @benkamen
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Sorry, didn’t see the replies, I’ll check now, thanks.
Makes no difference if the setting is MIDI, Audio, or Both. Same results. Try it yourselves with the kits I previously mentioned, the PureCussion Conga kit etc. The layer name is obtained from the first letters of the sample audio file it seems.
@benkamen MIDI was NOT enabled on all the tracks, and success now when it is. I see that the track labels now read the MIDI note, not the sample name. Thank you as well @timfromtheborder and @offbrands. Truly appreciate your invaluable help, and have used the app since Patterning 1. MIDI export is the main reason I updated from 2 to 3.
But still a bit of a problem not knowing what the exported MIDI files represent, and what the layers are named within the wheel and pads when only named by the MIDI note, any way around that?
If “Both” could retain the sample name it would be perfect, or an option to display either the note or sample name?