#12 [Feature Request] No easy way to get 4 bars with octaves

[ssj71]

1st I want to say thanks for an awesome project. Having these modules as plugins is really great.

A feature request:
I tried out qmidiarp as an lv2 plugin recently and was having fun arpeggiating, but it bothered me that there was no way to use the octaves and make the result be a 4 bar loop. If you choose 1 octave it plays the lower octave, the same octave, then the upper octave, resulting in 3 bars. If you select bounce for the octave mode then it simply plays lower octave, same octave, upper octave, then the whole thing backwards, upper, same, lower, resulting in a loop of 6 bars.

I don't have any experience with arpeggiators, perhaps this is standard behavior, but I think it would be nice to have an only up/only down octave option so that it was 2 bars or 4 on bounce mode.

An alternative feature could be a forced retrigger every N beats (for me 16 to get 4 bars). Then you can mess with it however you want and you will always have a loop of N beats.

If there's already a way to do this, sorry for the noise.
Thanks again!

[Frank]

Ticket moved from /p/qmidiarp/bugs/17/

[Frank]

Hi,
thanks for your encouragements and request. I think this is doable, the octave up/down combobox could get some more entries so that it contains settings resulting in 4 bar loops. I moved the ticket to feature requests and will come up with a solution, but I need to find time to implement it

Will keep you posted
Frank

[Frank]

Hi,
could you please try to build qmidiarp from the current git repository ? I have changed the octave mode behavior, you now define a lower and higher bound instead of cycling equally around zero. I think this should respond to your request

Best
Frank