#3

I hope you enjoy it and it inspires you! I wanna hear what you create. Let me know if you find any bugs or want to see any new features.

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#4

The toil is over. Time to shred.

Assemblage IV
minimal, Reichian, formal

Distress Beacon from Centillion Station
maximal, Skynet, post-singularity

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#5

had a first chance to try it out, so much fun to play around with!
4 observations:

  1. I have a grid 256 and it took some selecting until I had both Arc4 and grid connected. Worked though
  2. Shift + Pattern causes an unbelievable amount of CPU and introduces unwanted noises. I have an AMD 3950 Ryzen, so there is plenty of power available
  3. selecting notes (only) via arc is nice, but being able to additionally select notes/rowes via directly clicking the row on the grid would be more intuitive imho
  4. being able to use the full grid 256 (all rows) would be the icing on the cake ;-). I believe stretta has some good examples of making a patch adept to the grid size, which might be an easy way to get it implemented (and also make the patch work for a broader audience with e.g. also smaller grids). Of course I don’t have the faintest clue about programming in the first place, so take that with a grain of salt :smiley:
#6

Thank you so much for your time, patience, and detailed feedback.

  1. That is great to hear your grid 256 worked. That comes as a surprise to me.
  2. I know. My lookup algorithm is about as basic as it gets. I’m aiming to learn more Max so I can optimize this. I’ll publish my backlog up above.
  3. You can select directly on grid! See my videos above. Or were you thinking of something else?
  4. I’d love to be able to contract/expand dynamically. Compatability is love. @strettara can you point me to some of your work in this area, please?
#7

when i first saw this thread i was pretty excited about this…
but then i realized it’s not for norns.
:stuck_out_tongue:
any chance of a port?
:slight_smile:

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#8

I just got grid and arc this month. Help me rationalize another purchase.

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#9

heh!
i’m not the most rational person to ask…see this post here:


:stuck_out_tongue:

#10

“Well… surely if SPIKE has 3 I can splurge for one… surely…” SIGH

Friends help friends make the right decisions. Lemme finish my current grid/M4L project then I’ll stare at the Buy Now button again.

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#11

We Are the Children of Time
drone, Le Guin, space signals

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#12

So, I gave this a spin today and… I’m in love. In just. 5 minutes I had generated some pretty wild stuff using Cycles (by Slate+Ash) and my Tracker. This is just a rough draft, but I wanted to share. As an aside, there seem to be a few minor bugs here and there, Especially if I used my OG, non-vari-bright grid.

Again, rough draft. Lol

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#13

This is beautiful! I love your timbres and the overall mood. Thank you so much for sharing. Totally made my day.

If you have any bugs give me the details and I’ll fix them. I don’t have an OG grid but I should be able to figure out what the issue is.

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#14

Thanks so much! It was a sketch that has so much of the kinds of sound and vibe I want! Happy about that

Yeah, I have a modern and OG greyscale grid. Thought I’d give the greyscale a run, got some oddities like the play heads becoming unsynced.

With the modern grid, I did have a few stuck notes. Notes would hold down even if I removed it from the grid. Then, if I scrolled through the layers, I would see these notes suddenly be lit (when they had previously not been). I will see if I can try and get video at some point t.

#15

Interesting. I will look into that. Thank you for the report. Videos are super helpful.

#16

I’ll see what I can do! I’m also hella new to Cycles, so, might be a side effect of that… Best believe I’ll continue to play with it :wink:

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#17

Okay, so I did a little playing around, and I’m curious; does this have a “note off” function? It seems like it sorta holds the note down until the next plays… Am I wrong here?

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#18

Ahh, yes good catch. I had hardcoded the note off to be after 5 seconds, intending to come back and change it. Now the note off signal is sent after a sixteenth note.

Here’s the updated version!
https://northerninformation.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/cascades-v2.0.1.zip

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#19

Sweet! Hmmm… now I’m curious, would there be a way to have note length be a variable programmable parameter? I was playing with looping sequences, so the long length was rad, but eventually created lengths that were out of step with my quantized beat. Having a way to define either quantized or unquantized lengths, maybe per channel, similar to a delay amount style choice would be slick. I don’t FULLY know where that might fit. But I could even see an arc control where unquantized is made going one direction and is smooth and another quantized where it’s it is chunky lights filling up, sort of like when scrolling through channels.

#20

Oh! And a choice to either polyphony or mono style retrigger notes!!!

Wow, now I’m getting greedy!

:smirk:

#21

Awesome ideas. I’ve added both to the backlog!

I could see the “note length” feature work sorta like how you define lengths in meadowphysics. Definitely useful.

As for the re-triggering, for now you should be able to approach some of that with setting your samples in Live to “one shot” etc. but it would be rad to quickly set it per channel via grid/arc controls.

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#22

Good calls. Hoping to have some time tonight or tomorrow to noodle around. Thanks again! And who knows, I might go a bit further with some of the beats and designs and get another sketch up here to share.

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