windspirit

hey are there any good step sequencer objects like those in FL or ableton? One where you can format note lengths/ velcotiy etc by rearranging rectangles. Multislider and itable just dont really cut it in this department.

hey are there any good step sequencer objects like those in FL or ableton?  One where you can format note lengths/ velcotiy etc by rearranging rectangles.  Multislider and itable just dont really cut it in this department.


step-sequencer-interface-object

As usual, don't assume there's a single object

for every goal you might imagine. Anything of

this complexity is probably strictly a roll your

own or hybrid proposition, and it's unclear 

that anyone who'd gone to all that trouble would

As usual, don't assume there's a single object
for every goal you might imagine. Anything of
this complexity is probably strictly a roll your
own or hybrid proposition, and it's unclear 
that anyone who'd gone to all that trouble would
just be handing it out.


There is also this daunting sequencer interface which you could try and modify for your own needs in the examples folder:

Max5(or 4.6)/examples/synths/very-special-guest

that one writes based on a sequence into an LCD and it might be a bit more difficult to figure out how to read from the LCD while dragging the objects around but that's probably where you'd want to start. It's likely that once someone's made something like this, if they were to share it with you, they would probably give you something this complex and you'd just have to figure it out from there for yourself so i hope it helps.

There is also this daunting sequencer interface which you could try and modify for your own needs in the examples folder:
Max5(or 4.6)/examples/synths/very-special-guest

that one writes based on a sequence into an LCD and it might be a bit more difficult to figure out how to read from the LCD while dragging the objects around but that's probably where you'd want to start. It's likely that once someone's made something like this, if they were to share it with you, they would probably give you something this complex and you'd just have to figure it out from there for yourself so i hope it helps.
Best of luck.


Along those lines, any word whether there may be a re-creation of the good old detonate object in the future? Even though it did crash on occasion, it was very useful and did all these things. I'd love to see a reincarnation of it, and it wouldn't even need tons of fancy features, just a way to put notes on a grid of pitch/duration, with a way to specify velocity of each. (OK, maybe that's fancy.)

Having this attached to an "auto-preset" which sets each new state like an undo (which you can readily do with table's "bang when edited") could be very handy. Barring that, using a combination of table and multislider (one for velocity and the other for pitch/duration) in some fashion does work, but doesn't quite get to "piano-roll" intuitiveness. Perhaps use your patches as plug-ins in these other apps instead, to take advantage of their very well-done sequencer interfaces.

To quote Joseph Conrad, "Mistah Kurtz he daid."

well, I mean is there any interface object that lets you write out notation or score notes in any way? I really just want to be able to write musical melodies and stuff, I am totally not attached to the rectangular step sequencer idea.

well, I mean is there any interface object that lets you write out notation or score notes in any way?  I really just want to be able to write musical melodies and stuff, I am totally not attached to the rectangular step sequencer idea.


You may want to look at ice.lattice. It's an external for building your own tracker sequencer. And Nortron is a nice product built around it.

step sequencer interface object