If anyone is interested in checking out Supercollider, there is a fantastic set of classes under BBCut2 that will do stuttering and auto breakbeat generation. > On Feb 28, 2016, at 7:20 AM, Johannes Kroll <j-kroll@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Harry, thanks for your reply! > > On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:15:21 +0000 > Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Johannes Kroll <j-kroll@xxxxxx> wrote: >>> * artyFX Masha: Does what I want. Loop length controllable while >>> looping. >> >> Glad its kinda useful.. >> >>> Fine-grained length control possible by changing Jack >>> Transport BPM from an external program. >> >> Yes - would you prefer a dial on the UI? Or what would be ideal for you? > > I could think of two ways.. ok, three: > > 1) there could be another parameter, a boolean/checkbox which could be > named "sync" or "lock". It would be on by default which would mean the > current behaviour. If turned off, the quantization to full/half/quarter > etc would simply be disabled, and the Time parameter would control the > loop length directly. > 2) there could be a boolean parameter "Auto"/"From Transport". On by > default (current behaviour). If turned off, BPM would be taken from > another parameter, controlled by a dial on the UI. > 3) in addition or instead of 2), there could be a "BPM Multiplier" > parameter... Floating point from, say, 0.25 up to 4. This would > take the Transport BPM and scale it. > > 1) is what I would prefer, and probably easiest to implement. 2) > might be nice to have in addition. 3) would be interesting for > polyrhythmic looping and stuff - something I would like, but I don't > know if many other people would use it. > > What do you think :) > > >>> I did it with Hydrogen... >>> Feels kind of hackish though, changing the Transport BPM just to >>> control one plugin. >> >> Agreed - Ideally this would be easier - but given the eco-system, >> if the plugin is to automatically match the host/session BPM, >> this is the only way to achieve that. >> >>> Also, is there a small program or plugin which >>> simply controls Jack Transport BPM? >> >> Some suggestions here: I dont have experience with them: >> https://freesoftwaremusic.wordpress.com/2015/01/10/jack-transport-master/ > > I've tried the programs in the list - Hydrogen works best, although > it's strange to have a complete sequencer/sampler/drummachine running > just to control BPM. > > I thought there could be a simple LV2 plugin with a single parameter > for Transport BPM. Possibly MIDI-automatable. Doesn't need a custom GUI. > I would then load this plugin into each Carla patch. > Do you think this would work? Is there even a way to set the Transport > BPM from an LV2 plugin? I guess not, so the plugin would have to create > a separate JACK client, which would show up in Carla or other patchbays, > which is unusual for a plugin. Don't know if that would be the best > way. I could use/write a small standalone program but I'd rather avoid > all the session management stuff. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
