Phrase Bracketing/Merging/Extracting/Splitting
6 May 2008, 06:27Due to the phrase- instead of track- based approach the sequencer lacks the following features in addition to those apparent FaX->FaG lackings which are dealt with in this thread. So this is a wish list emerging from the fact that the sequencer moved from track- to phrase- based.
1) Phrase Bracketing (i.e. grouping)
Ability to group phrases and then do operations on them like moving or altering the volume etc.
2) Phrase Merging
Ability to merge multiple phrases into one.
(This feature *might* be obsolete if 1) gets implemented)
3) Phrase Extracting
On my good ole X6 I was able to split my freshly recorded track in to multiple tracks, channel-wise. It was a no-brainer for the sequencer because of the channeltrack i affiliation as to where to put the split data. Now it is different. New phrases (as opposed to already existant tracks) need to get created and placed in this process. I think Rolands programmers knew it would turn the whole song into chaos when simply putting the (arbitrarily named) resulting phrases somewhere (like f.e. the beginning) in the song.
Solution: As to phrase naming there is no quick solution as it would be neccessary to have a different naming convention for those. As to phrase placing there is one: Honor the visual Track(here used as channel)/Measure-Matrix and place the new born phrases accordingly. The
feature could be reasonably easy implemented and the result would be a no-brainer for those having migrated from FaS/X to FaG. They would pick up the results from places they expect them to be. The supermega cool thing would be, if (1) would have been implemented and the source phrase would become the bracket of the resulting phrase
.
3) Phrase Splitting
We (at least I) need the ability to split up phrases measure-wise.
1) Phrase Bracketing (i.e. grouping)
Ability to group phrases and then do operations on them like moving or altering the volume etc.
2) Phrase Merging
Ability to merge multiple phrases into one.
(This feature *might* be obsolete if 1) gets implemented)
3) Phrase Extracting
On my good ole X6 I was able to split my freshly recorded track in to multiple tracks, channel-wise. It was a no-brainer for the sequencer because of the channeltrack i affiliation as to where to put the split data. Now it is different. New phrases (as opposed to already existant tracks) need to get created and placed in this process. I think Rolands programmers knew it would turn the whole song into chaos when simply putting the (arbitrarily named) resulting phrases somewhere (like f.e. the beginning) in the song.
Solution: As to phrase naming there is no quick solution as it would be neccessary to have a different naming convention for those. As to phrase placing there is one: Honor the visual Track(here used as channel)/Measure-Matrix and place the new born phrases accordingly. The
feature could be reasonably easy implemented and the result would be a no-brainer for those having migrated from FaS/X to FaG. They would pick up the results from places they expect them to be. The supermega cool thing would be, if (1) would have been implemented and the source phrase would become the bracket of the resulting phrase
.
3) Phrase Splitting
We (at least I) need the ability to split up phrases measure-wise.
