[seq24-users] How to send a patch (and how to make a patch file)

[Aurelien <tyr...@fr...>]

Hello,

I'm new here, and quite new to seq24.

I use it in a (probably) not-very-usual manner, as I'm a musician quite
far from electro things at the beginning.
Thus, I've been writing some (let's say) patches for seq24, so that it
fits my need.
I would like to propose them to the community, but I don't really know
the best way to do it.
Actually, I've written three different patches, which are not dependent
one from the other, and thus, doing a single patch file for all of those
is senseless. However, as I never wrote a patch file, I don't know how
to do so that my patches can be applied with other patches already
applied to the code.

Basically, what I've been written aims to:

1. Use a midi control (CC, note-on, or PC) to strat playback. This
feature also can start the playback from beginning, even if sequences
are already running. It's especially useful when you have a sequence
which is longer than others, and you don't know how many times the
others will be looped (live mode). With this feature, you can switch to
that(those) new sequence(s) and starting them from beginning at the same
time.
Frank thinks I may improve this feature to turn seq24 into an
arpeggiator. I suppose it's possible, and not very hard, but I don't
know much about arpeggiator, so I need him to explain me!

2. Use a midi control (CC, note-on, or PC) to switch from one screen to
another. This feature already existed in a incremental decremental way,
I just improved it so that you can choose the screen number you want to
switch on. My purpose was live, once more, as I don't know my setlist
before execution, and, moreover, inc/dec is quite hasardous when playing
without a monitor, as you sometimes don't see that you inc 2 times, or
whatever.

3. The last feature is about sequence editing. I use a lot of
asymetrical or composed measures, and sometimes, I've 5/8 following
11/8, or whatever. Don't be too ambitious, I didn't write anything which
can support measure changes in a sequence, I'm way too bad for such a
thing. I just thought that with a "continuum" of measure's number (i.e
lenght of sequence), we may approach those composed or asymtrical
measures. For example, I needed a 7/8+11/8+11/8 sequence, and it was
impossible to reduce to something else than 29. So, I've changed the
"number of measures" menu, so that it's a continuum from 1 to 64.
This patch is very easy and everyone can change it for having bigger
values (though I think with 1-64 we already have done a lot, then, it
would be more useful to get a way to change measure type in sequence
editing).

Thanks a lot.
Aurélien

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Aurélien