Hello,
I was messing with ARP offset sequencer and I don’t think I understand “mute” function in there…
I have ARP set to single note (NO1-4 is OFF), range is 2 and MOD is TRU so in reality I have two note arpeggio: base root note + octave up root note… When I go to FN+ARP screen I see 16 step offset sequencer for this arpeggio. So my arpeggio is going to repeat 8 times before end of this sequencer… When turn off one trig (mute?) in middle of ARP sequence I was expecting to mute this arpeggio step - skip it. But what happens is after the “muted” trig the arpeggio shifts its start position. So at the end of my sequence (16. step) I have base root note, not the octave up root note… When I “mute” two trigs it sound like a mute again - I don’t have same note on first and last step…
And when you program several offsets to this arrpegio and “mute” one trig, its behaviour is even more confusing, I’ve recorded video, so you see how the “mute” changes the whole arpeggio: https://youtu.be/Dl3kxlmxd2U
Also if somebody know what do black squares represent in the sequencer I would like to know - there is not much documentation in the manual.
when you mute a step on the arpeggio overlay (the screen with 16 sliders/mutes) it will mute the arp output, or rather the generation of the next event - so it ‘stalls’ the use of the range parameter to the next valid event
this is a 1 long note track with 4 arp overlay steps -1oct 0oct 1oct 0oct
we’ll play it with a range of 1 and a range of 2 then same again and we’ll mute the 4th overlap step - only the last case will take two passes to repeat
you can see it makes sense if you accept that the overlay mute is not in fact seen by the track generation as having used its range card - so the mute stalls the range up octave
I think with a complex overlay pattern it can get harder to interpret - but it’s not resetting the overlay
the black squares are just non octave - (rather the filled 'white squares are the octaves)
the whole paradigm offers many possibilities and some of it will be quirky, but it’s powerful
hopefully if you transcribe what’s happening in detail with you, this will allow it to make sense even if it’s not as anticipated
I think of the 16 step offset&mute page as an overlay - when the step is omitted, the overlay has progressed and no event is generated, but the track arp therefore hasn’t used its range card, so it’s stalled - the range deployment is not linear in time when you introduce a single mute - but in our example here the pattern should appear more ‘predictable’ if two mutes are deployed
hth - the blue scribbles and arrows denote range events, x is a missed ‘step’
Thanks for such detailed clarification!
I will think about it as inserting wedge so I can move parts of the arpeggio around easily and make different rhythmic phrasing.
