Tabula rasa advice

Elektron Gear Analog Keys/Four
#42

Could you remind us what are Tabula Rasa concerned settings ?
Maybe better to do mine, no ?

#43

Of course.
You have to create a new kit for each pattern, and place at least a trig iirc.
This might be done by generating the sysex directly, thatā€™s the direction I would take.

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#44

One trig on the first track for example?
Not a big deal but it is surprising. :sketchy:

Edit : voidā€™s comment :

The patterns have a single trigless lock on the first step in the first synth track - this is necessary to maintain the link to the kit; the pattern just cannot be completely empty, else the A4 will unlink the kit.

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#45

Original Tabula Rasa @voidā€™s post.
http://www.elektron-users.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=2&func=view&catid=9&id=218448

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#46

They changed this on AR so itā€™s not necessary anymore, I imagine they would have on A4 tooā€¦

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#47

Knew youā€™d find your way home :wink:

#48

Does anyone know?

#49

Check the release notes for A4 updateā€¦ The AR notes I found online but the A4 I could only find the actual update with the release notes included in that, on IPad so didnā€™t downloadā€¦ It was several updates back for AR but all the updates are in the release note fileā€¦

Or just load a kit to an empty pattern and switch to another and backā€¦ :slight_smile:

#50

Can anyone explain this a little further? So they changed something on the A4?

I came here looking for an up to date link for the tubula rasa but do we not need it anymore?

#51

What was changed on AR and I assume A4 is that you no longer need a trig (or lock trig) on a pattern for a kit to become associated with it, you can just load a kit to an empty pattern or save the current kit and it will associate to the empty patternā€¦

Not sure if thereā€™s an updated tabula rasa template projectā€¦

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#52

Ah I understand now. I thought it somehow actually tied kits to patterns like the Rasa would.

Welp, time to suck it up and learn to love the EK way. Iā€™m only about about a week in still but itā€™s starting to make sense. Iā€™ve been having a few breakthroughs even since my last comment.

Something that opened my eyes on the kit separation was realizing that itā€™s kind of an extra layer of the on the fly pattern save / reload trick.

You can save a pattern, muck around with it and revert back safely with ease. Itā€™s a huge performance tool.

If you think of kits existing just to grant you that same opportunity but for the sound design rather than the note data it starts to seem a little more appealing.

I also didnā€™t realize while reading about this online that you can in fact quick save and recall a kit on the fly. I thought youā€™d have to stop and rename it which sounded pretty tedious. (it can help to PREname a kit when you make a new pattern just to give you a new save point though.)

Hang in there fellow noobs. I think those are some woods Iā€™m starting to see behind all of these trees.

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#53

Anyone got a copy of the file? The dropbox link thats floating around is giving a 404 error message

#54

Two years later and Iā€™ve sold and re-bought the Rytm since then.

Kits have been making more sense to me this time around and I figure Iā€™d share a few nuggets of wisdom Iā€™ve picked up since then. Some of these might seem fairly obvious to some but it was still stuff I had to experience to learn.

Also this is coming from someone who at one point REALLY wanted the rytm kit/pattern thing to work more like the Digi-boxes (though Iā€™d still welcome a toggle for this in the settings.)

So everyone says the kit thing is better because you can keep the same sounds across multiple patterns if you want. I still rarely want this.

What I had to realize was that most of the changes I was making to parameters, I was needlessly saving as separate kits when they could have better been saved as p-locks. Iā€™m using p-locks a lot more between patterns to obtain those subtle variations I wanted and saving actual kit changes for more substantial shifts.

Iā€™m even p-locking things on my initial pattern that I know I might later change. I use melodic samples a lot and I used to just move the actual start point and tuning parameters. But then I may move these around in a later pattern just to listen for ideas. I kind of screwed myself by doing this a few times and had to back track to fix the issue. Now Iā€™ve learned to just p-lock these kinds of values from the start if I felt like its something Iā€™d be changing on a pattern to pattern basis.

#55

Make your own kit on a new project, copy paste 127 times, save project, done.