Import midi pattern

[Jesse Johannesen]

1) Call & Response melody / motif. Can you do it? That is very basic stuff, sir.

2) Did you check my screenshots? The pluck pattern is very basic. It does not have 16 notes, but 21 notes. If you noodling 1/8 grid then it is enough. But most of the songs have 1/16 grid and then it is not enough. You cannot make even basic pattern for 1/16 grid.

3) Is there a workaround? Mod matrix with pattern switching for call & response melody. Possible: Yes or No? You did not answer.

4) Changing bass root note is possible: Yes or No?

What solution do you offer?

My solution so far:
A) Use drone to trigger external arp as drone can change bass root note (this is workaround that I was expecting you can tell me)
B) Use external arp and trigger both arp and NDLR using external midi keys

I had hardware startup and did run makerspace. I know Teensy Arduino is good for realtime hardware, but even so it is quite limited in memory and not so fast with UI and midi input (pattern editor did not record incoming midi input from 135 BPM 1/16 grid midi notes). I hope you did provide some additional SRAM (some form of static memory) on Teensy, so it have enough memory to save user data. It is also good for the future upgrades.

1. Yes call and response is totally doable and you are on the right track with Q3 in suggesting the Mod Matrix. I would suggest using a Motif Pattern as an LFO shape (in LFO config) and editing that pattern to be values of 0 or 1 and sending that to (either or both) Motif Patterns as a destination. then using adjacent patterns you should be able to set them to flip between patterns at whatever interval you like following a 16 step pattern.

2. I did see that you included several visual representations of the pattern. On closer inspection it may also be possible to utilize the Scale Mode on the Patterns to create your Motif, using 3 patterns set to Scale (in the pattern editor rotate the lower left encoder all the way CCW. This will bring up a menu that will have the options Chromatic, Scale, or Chord. Choose Scale) then you can select the notes in order that you want in chord 1, then save the pattern and move to another pattern and do the same for chord 2, and 3 and save to adjacent pattern slots. Then using the MOD matrix you could select which Motif Pattern is playing using the above Mod Matrix suggestion but modify the pattern to have values 0, 1, and 2.

3. See above

4. Yes Drone part can be set to play just the current Root note, or follow the Chord Degree selected (any of the drone trigger patterns that have a triangular play indicator stay on the root, the ones with 5 dots follow the Chord Degree). Additionally the Drone Notes selection will chose if it plays just root, root and 5th, or root 5th and octave). If you set the motifs you are using to Scale, they will not transpose with Chord degree selection (but pad will), so you could get the bass note to transpose independently of the Motifs.

I don't know whether or not additional SRAM was added, but I do know that we wish there was more.  As to the pattern editor, I believe the ability to input notes from MIDI was added as an update and was intended to be used with a midi keyboard. I suggested it in the hopes that the process might be abused to accomplish your goal. It doesn't surprise me that it didn't quite get it right, but it was worth a try.

I hope that helps a little more, and if you want to give these ideas a shot and get back to me, I'd be happy to provide further assistance as necessary.
Jesse