[LAU] Softwek and step-sequencers [WAS]: Re: A Project To Upgrade seq24

[Lorenzo Sutton]

On 10/12/2015 15:11, Paul Davis wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Louigi Verona <louigi.verona at gmail.com
> <mailto:louigi.verona at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Not THAT hard. I've written a couple of sequencers on Pd. And there
>     are several out there.
>
>
> It would be pretty/fairly hard. Softwerk has a huge amount of inter-lane
> modulation/interaction. The pitches, duration, velocities and gating of
> any number of lanes can be controlled by any other number of lanes.

So... e.g. pattern two can be the velocities of notes programmed on 
pattern one etc.?

> The
> gating concept also requires (i think) a fairly novel way of dealing
> with time that I think is hard to do in Pd. I could easily be wrong.

If you have any pointers (or time to explain) I'd be curious to 
understand how the gating works in this case.

>
> I suspect it would be the 80/20 or 90/10 rule ... easy to do the first
> 80-90% .. hard to get the whole thing. And Softwerk goes significantly
> beyond what can be done with the Schaltwerk hardware that inspired it.

That was my impression looking at the *apparently* simple interface in 
the screenshot :)

Lorenzo.