so it seems like there are 6 banks and 96 patterns available for each project. Thats a lot !
Just wondering how people are using these ? For me it seems like i have so many patterns available but without being able to share a kit of sounds between patterns, its feeling a bit wasted or am i just not thinking about them in the right way?
Are people putting different songs on different patterns in the same project? I’m still very new to M:S so interested in how other people are approaching this.
I treat the banks as an organizational tool. Bank A is the performance bank, Banks B-E are for pattern and song creation, usually the stuff in each one is related, Bank F is for temporary stuff and sound creation.
And as for the kits vs patterns thing … here are the ways of dealing with it that I can think of:
Use trig conditions and different track lengths and speeds to make patterns more varied (that is squeeze as much “song” out of a single pattern as possible)
Copy and paste machines manually between patterns
Use the Kit Save/Load feature
Use an external sequencer such as Ableton or Pyramid to add variation across a song (whether by audio clips or additional MIDI-controlled sounds), or simply control the Cycles via MIDI. (the last one gives up P-locking, unfortunately CC control is not the same in every respect)
I’ve created entire backing tracks for songs using pattern chaining. It’s not that bad.
It depends on the kind of music. One project I have is a set of beats and loops for live performance, while the rest are pre-programmed progressions meant to record into a DAW.