I don’t mean to put Levels down, I quite like it and think it does its thing well. I’m just hard-pressed to turn cycles off at the moment, it just continues to unfold additional possibilities.
I think for me the tricky business w/ levels is keeping tabs of what step you’re editing and what step is currently active. I’ve had fun creating sequences and love the knobs as an input device, but find that while running an externally triggered sequence I almost immediately become detached from what I’m editing and what is active. I just find that the arc is best used to set up these sequences, and then I don’t find myself coming back and editing confidently when the sequence is bouncing along. And these are usually the times when I consider recreating the patterns in TT and switching on Cycles.
To quickly wax poetic, cycles feels like 4 LFOs that BEG you to touch the wheel and all input seems to be rewarded w/ immediate clear visual and (per your patching) audio manipulation
I’m curious what will come of potential II commands for Levels on TT, I think this might be the thing which could rein it in a little bit, or blow it open potential-wise. One imagines being able to alter the read position, start position, pattern length, advancing/decreasing the step, applying slew, or maybe add an offset unrelated to the octave setting for the scale root in v/8 w/o retuning your oscillator. I think having some of this controlled or completely randomized elsewhere might add some clarity or alternatively make this thing even more bonkers.
@carvingcode you might be right about just needing 2. but would I not just use it as a 2nd Cycles !?
