domtak wrote:I discovered the sbx 2049 via the video on the Ableton main site just this week. Very cool drum machine and I did hit the randomise button... my computer handled it good though. However I prefer just to randomise single hits whilst playing as it suddenly changes the feel but in a subtle way.
My computer had no issue with the randomize button either, but I had no workflow or good way to work with it. Even randomizing a hit is neat but too unreproducible, unless you're happy recording all your noodling directly to audio. This was when I decided to pattr-ize the device so that I could randomize hits or the whole device and then save a snapshot when I liked the sound. My CPU issues started when I tried to morph between these snapshots, at least when I used automated ramps to morph with clips in Live. I think the ramps simply sent too many updates to my SBX, and each one was changing EVERY parameter. I got some ridiculous crashes with this but by changing the ramps to steps I was able to get what I wanted which was controlled morphing between sbx presets. This is why I love M4L, I can take two things I find useful, sbx and the Covert Ops morphing presets stuff, and merge them togehter to create something truly novel and useful.
-Hamish
