[seq24-users] How to send a patch (and how to make a patch file)
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From: Aurelien <tyr...@fr...> - 2009-05-20 16:42:28
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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 -- Aurélien |