I’d like to be able to do the LFO -> sample slot trick on M:S … or something close, I’d like to be able to easily get a lot of varied but related sounds on one track. I think this is sometimes called ‘round robin’.
What’s the best way to do this ? Am I right in thinking that I’ll need a sample chain with 120 samples, and then LFO -> sample start (with length = 1) ?
You should get a random selection of your samples, right ?
Well, when playing notes (via trig keys) this is wrong. It’s totally unpredictable, each note you play may or may go into some kind of repeat cycle (this is on a fresh project, so no retrigs set)
Suspect I have exposed a M:S firmware bug.
EDIT:However, if you sequence the notes, you don’t get the repeat effect and it does appear that sample start is quantised (e.g. 0, 1, 2, rather than 3.31, 3.56, 1.43).
EDIT 2: To get the fullest selection of your 120 samples set
sample start to 60,
sample length to 1,
LFO Wave to random
LFO Dep to 29.5
This appears to vary sample start from 1 to 119
With sample start to 59, it varies sample start from 0 to 118
That’s a hack that could get round the bug, yes. Unfortunately I’m finding the whole thing a bit unpredictable. What I called ‘repeat cycle’ is just the sample playing beyond the length of ‘1’… randomly. And it also seems to happen with sequenced notes as well as played ones.
I’d better stop adding more to this thread till I can get to the bottom of it.