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thanks for the beta! (any other features included?
FYI I had the hanging note at the beginning of using the zaq, and haven’t had it since around the time of updgrading to 1.5. I use the zaq pretty much every day.
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OK thanks for the info.
and thanks for the awesome bit of kit already!
Ehappy new year!
some of my top wishes for a potential update in 2018:
- per-step step length
- conditional triggering (maybe via another mode like ratcheting etc.)
- more user scales and/or ability to set the user scale notes via CC
peace
E+1 new direction modes…
Sorry to bump this old thread again: it would be really great to be able to edit several chained patterns on the fly…
Is it really not possible to envisage an “overwrite chaining mode” where any change is automatically saved? (the save command could just be performed when the pattern switches to the next one?)
thx
E+1
Absolutely
Interesting. You’re right: I wouldn’t call my music experimental.
Experimenting also means to ‘try something in order to discover what it is like or to find out more about it’ so I suppose what I meant in the title was “Experimenting with Zaquencer’s ratchet feature”.It’s difficult to put a name on the sort of music I like making. I mostly try and make the most of my cheap, limited setup. Coming from a jazz background, I like the improvisation aspect of music most of all, and (short of finding musicians in the sticks where I live) I try to find organic ways of playing my machines. The Zaquencer definitly helps towards that!
“Self instructional” maybe, as I strive to find musical concepts that will sound new to my ears. I also rather like Steve Coleman’s concept of “spontaneous composition”, and Jimi’s “experience”… so many labels..
I was actually sad to see that soundcloud makes you now choose from a list of genres. I rather enjoyed making the genre up..
Thanks Robert!
Not sure when to qualify my jams as “successful” really.. They’re usually self indulgent, and a bit weird.+1 Euclidean Rhythm WAV GEN!
Now regarding chords & Global Scale: chord notes are locked to the selected scale, which is great and creates these exotic chords, but these are not written when applying the scale: it’d be great if they could be! (Probably impossible to implement I know, just thought I’d mention..
yes just one high note that hangs in forever until you reset the program on the synth.
nope not necessarily using the scale feature.I did get the high pitch noise, with daisy-chaining.
I now use a Yamaha YME8 Midi Expander and haven’t heard the glitch anymore. Will keep you posted if I do.that angelfire page is great!
I updated the chords spreadsheet to include more chords (again, in my opinion, the more “useful” ones – note the “hendrix” chord @ #48
and separate families further ie. added DIMINISHED (60-69 because of the 6 semitones charaterizing it) and AUGMENTED (80-89 because of the 8 semitones charaterizing it) families. (I realised after my first post that displaying the chord name is not exactly an option is it?!)
Following Tommy Down’s ‘coltrane progressions’ suggestion, a start might be to add some chords as new “scales” choices? alternatively we could have more user defined scale presets?
and yes it would extremely awesome to be able to program chords changes, ie control the scale changes + scale root not just manually on the global level, but per sequence, via CC I guess.sorry, more requests! do these require their own threads?
(actually I replaced #29 with one octave down, more useful than a low minor third, all things considered)
I had a go at re-arranging by family, with progressive, “useful” enrichments (although I stopped enrichments at the ninth). I used “standard” chords, and tried to match numbers with intervals (to some extend, obviously) ie. the minor chord family is 30-39 because of the 3 semitones that characteries it, etc.
With single intervals, I’m not quite going one octave down but it’s probably enough, as it’s not that useful really.
I shared the spreadsheet here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17Aq_zqup4c7Tq6ZhfwIptZDwfwd9jJeKqQzN-V_wAiM/pubhtml
I used the following notation (which makes more sense musically than just the number of semitones):
m2: minor second (1 semitone)
M2: major second (2 semitones)
m3: minor third (3 semitones)
M3: major third (4 semitones)
4: perfect fourth (5 semitones)
d5: diminished fifth (=A4 augmented fourth, 6 semitones)
5: perfect fifth (7 semitones)
A5: augmented fifth (=m6 minor sixth, 8 semitones)
M6: major sixth (9 semitones)
m7: minor seventh (10 semitones)
M7: major seventh (11 semitones)
8: perfect octave (12 semitones)
m9: minor ninth (13 semitones)
M9: major ninth (14 semitones)
etc.It’d be awesome to have the display show the actual notation ie. “m3-5-m7″ (or be able to switch to it anyways
Not too sure how the inversions would work though – I’m a guitar/bass player, a piano player will have better ideas. I’m happy to share the google doc for editing!
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