It's possible to use a CV clip to sequence songs using the idea that everything is always playing into the mixer, but using the Mutes to decide what is heard at any particular time. But it's not ideal because you can only see what is happening on one channel at at time in the editor.
A multi-channel "Arrangement editor" for CV clips would make this much easier:
(Big thanks to Steve for the mockup!)
The CV editor would get a toggle at the top of the screen to switch between the existing “Note editor” and this new “Arrangement editor”.
Each of the solid blocks is a CV note. Clicking in empty space in the Arrangement editor creates a new note with the voltage set to 10V all the way across. Dragging the edges of notes works as you’d expect, as does deleting them and so on. Connect a wire to the Gate output and you can drive the mutes of the mixer to enable and disable channels.
But you might want to fade the tracks in and out by sending CV curves to the Volume inputs of the mixer, rather than switch them in and out by sending Gates to the Mutes. Clicking a note would drop into the existing Note editor for that note’s channel, horizontally zoomed to that note, to let you edit the curve. You now have the option of using the CV output to control the Volume of a track, rather than using the Gate to Mute it. The CV curve for each note would be painted into its block in the Arrangement editor.
Torinbob
commented
2 years ago
(Feature request from Steve Baker.)
It's possible to use a CV clip to sequence songs using the idea that everything is always playing into the mixer, but using the Mutes to decide what is heard at any particular time. But it's not ideal because you can only see what is happening on one channel at at time in the editor.
A multi-channel "Arrangement editor" for CV clips would make this much easier:
(Big thanks to Steve for the mockup!)
The CV editor would get a toggle at the top of the screen to switch between the existing “Note editor” and this new “Arrangement editor”.
Each of the solid blocks is a CV note. Clicking in empty space in the Arrangement editor creates a new note with the voltage set to 10V all the way across. Dragging the edges of notes works as you’d expect, as does deleting them and so on. Connect a wire to the Gate output and you can drive the mutes of the mixer to enable and disable channels.
But you might want to fade the tracks in and out by sending CV curves to the Volume inputs of the mixer, rather than switch them in and out by sending Gates to the Mutes. Clicking a note would drop into the existing Note editor for that note’s channel, horizontally zoomed to that note, to let you edit the curve. You now have the option of using the CV output to control the Volume of a track, rather than using the Gate to Mute it. The CV curve for each note would be painted into its block in the Arrangement editor.