ml-px-18 shift function doesn't work?

[intellijel]

Trying Robert's ml-px-18 step sequencer. I understand every function but I can't get the shift part to work. When I look at the patch it looks like the pitch and shift patchers are exactly the same. Is this a mistake or have I perhaps not figured out how to use it properly?

[henke]

Hi,
the Shift parameter only makes sense in conjunction with a setting of the Bar parameter to anything but 1.
The Bar parameter defines if the note is triggered each bar, or only each second bar, or third etc...

A sequence like this:

Bar / Shift
2 / 0
2 / 0
2 / 0
2 / 0
would create 4 notes every second bar.
A sequence like this:

2 / 1
2 / 0
2 / 0
2 / 0

would create the first note in the first bar and the other three notes in the second bar.

Let me know if this works.

Cheers, Robert

[intellijel]

ah ok that makes total sense now!

I recently implemented a unique sequencer feature you might like: cumulative transpose

I set a upper and lower note limit and transpose amount (-/+). Every time the sequencer cycles to that step a transpose amount is added. When the transpose amount surpases the hi/lo note limit it is wrapped around. So if I have a note that starts at a value of 10 and has a cumulative transpose of +3, upper limit 21 and low limit 2 I would get this sequence for that particular note/step:

10
13
16
19
3
6
9
12
15
18
21
2
5

etc.

If you quantise the scale output you get really cool flowing sequences. I made a step sequencer where every step could have a different cumulative transpose value so that some steps could be positive (upwards) and some were negative. The result was very flowing sequences!