Is it possible to press 'play' on Zaq while he is slaved?

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  • #2548
    Avatar of Leidenfrost
    Leidenfrost
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    First of all, the Zaquencer is a really nice tool. I totally like it!

    Couldn’t find anything in the forum or the manual, so here is the question:

    I want the Zaq to have an external clock but want to ‘press play internal’.
    Is this possible? Do I miss something?

    Thanks for the help!

    #2554
    Avatar of Christian
    Christian
    Keymaster

    Hello,
    thanks for the kudos :)
    Unfortunately what you ask is not possible. This is an intentional design to always be in sync, which was inspired by other sequencers/drummachines/DAWs.

    The workaround to make the Zaquencer start playing later is to either mute all tracks and unmute them when it should start, or to store an empty (mute) pattern and load a full one.

    Cheers!

    #2563
    Avatar of Leidenfrost
    Leidenfrost
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    Ok, I thought it would maybe be possible to press play anywhere in the sequence and it starts playing on the next ‘one’ or something like that…

    But I think muting the tracks or loading a full one will also work fine! ;)

    Thanks!!

    #3425
    Avatar of Drox
    Drox
    Participant

    I have yet to receive my BCR (hopefully this week) to try the excellent Zaq Audio firmware but there is a hardware option available to do this. Have a look on the link.

    I have no affiliation with the product, just thought it would be useful to share.

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Touchprone-Interrupt-Inline-Synced-MIDI-Start-Stop-/160337826568

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Avatar of Drox Drox.
    #3428
    Avatar of Tommy Down
    Tommy Down
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    Another way is to have a muted section of each track. 1-8 for example. Set seq length to 8 and run the muted section until you want to press ‘play’.
    Then switch the seq start from the muted section to the unmuted section and expand the seq length as required.

    A bit like chopping each track into parts and using seq start to switch between them.

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