text based sequencer

infuzion · 15 Jul 2005

Another good example of the Custom Parser... thanks!

lalo · 15 Jul 2005

yeah jorge 🙂

thanx for the example 🙂

Shifrin · 15 Jul 2005

Very nice Jorge 😀

Shif.

Nu Audio Science · 15 Jul 2005

Niiice i wanted to have a look inside a sequencer in SM for a while 🙂

GaryG · 15 Jul 2005

so we're all going to be writing trackers with SM?!

lord no...

😉

.g

jorge · 15 Jul 2005

GaryG wrote: so we're all going to be writing trackers with SM?!

Another option is to have a graphical module where you edit notes that get converted to text data that you can use to play as in the example above. The text would be an intermediate stage which would be useful for debugging and copying and pasting etc.

Tom7777 · 15 Jul 2005

Cool, thanks Jorge

GaryG · 15 Jul 2005

Sorry Jorge, I wasn't knocking your schematic, just kidding with the idea of using something as advanced as SM to build a text based tracker-like sequencer.

Obviously using the ideas you've posted as a base any thing could be built.

Cheers, .g

Tom7777 · 15 Jul 2005

The example jorge posted is the basis of any sequencer, its just lower level, something like fruity loops can already be made if you put the time in and know how, it would probably be very cpu heavy though im guessing.

jorge · 15 Jul 2005

GaryG wrote: Sorry Jorge, I wasn't knocking your schematic, just kidding with the idea of using something as advanced as SM to build a text based tracker-like sequencer.

Yeah, I was a bit worried that with my comment you'd think I didnt get what you meant. I got it and eventhough I'm not a musician I have noticed how some people are sensitive about trackers and others ( probably fewer ) really like them.

Josh · 31 Jul 2005

Is it possible to trigger the sequencer when you press a key on your midi controller(i.e. note on message) instead of having to click on that little red trigger button thingi? Also how would one go about syncing the sequencer to the host tempo any ideas? 🙂

Tom7777 · 1 Aug 2005

You can use the Midi Splitter module to trigger on midi keyboard press, this is a R+D module though so make sure you set it in the SM options to be able to see these, hope this helps 🙂

Josh · 1 Aug 2005

Cheers Tom I'll look into it. 🙂

Josh · 1 Aug 2005

Kewl it works. 🙂 🙂 🙂 Thanks

Tom7777 · 1 Aug 2005

🙂 As for timing you can change the line s500; in the code to another value, this is the time gap between each note, the numbers above this is the chord so its quite simple to change to notes to what you need, i believe that this is in Ms so if you change the 500 to 1000 then that is equal to 1 second.

Josh · 31 Aug 2005

When I hold down a note and release it, the sequence triggers all over again Is there a way of stopping the second trigger on note release?

posh · 4 Jan 2006

Supercollider anyone?

j/k 🙂

fff · 12 Oct 2011

Hi All, initial .osm link from Jorge is broken in the first message of this topic; bad as other topics in the forum are refering to this one! (I PM Jorge, seems to be too busy)

Can anyone sent the code to me ... or better for the community, put it back ?

(or similar code of his own?)

Thanks, Fabrice

fff · 15 Oct 2011

anyone on that please ? F

oddson · 15 Oct 2011

That post is >6 years old. The program has changed dramatically since then (although I suspect it might still work or be easily fixed if anyone could locate it).

It was pretty light on features... as I recall it was more an example of what the parser components could be used for than a serious sequencer.

The reality is SynthMaker's timing issues make it ill suited to build a sequencer program. Search 'green timing' for details on why.