Global quantise

[captaingoatboy]

Hi there, i'm not too sure if this has been suggested before, and i hope it doesn;t go against the main purpose of usine, but i would really, really like a few more quantise options if at all possible. At the moment, there is no option between 'cycle' and 'bar', and an option for maybe '2 bars', '3 bars' etc would be great, especially as I would like to use 16 bar loops in the sampler modules. At the moment, if I want to use a 16 bar loop for say, a whole verse, i have to split it up into 4 bars, drop them into the sample list, and chose play mode 'next'. This is fine for drum loops (its actually great for drumloops becasue i can set play mode to random if i want), but for lead and bass parts, the 4 bar long file that gets triggered when changing a conductor snapshot may be the 2nd or third one into the verse. I don't know if this is something i'm doing wrong (it probably is).

It would be nice to set a cycle length of say, 16 bars, and then have switching options and sampler sync modes as bar increments so that loops of different lengths can be used and they will all stay in sync. at the moment if i have the sync modes on a sampler module set to 'loop' then the timing can sometimes drift out, again, normally when choosing a new conductor snapshot.

Also, it would be handy for switch quantising as at the moment you're constrained to either one cycle or one bar. this is fine for cycles that are quite short, but if you want long cycle lengths you either have to activate a switch within a bar, or wait until the end of a cycle.

However, as i've only been using usine (every day!!!) for the last three motnhs i may be missing something that i'm doing wrong.

Thanks very much!!

Kevin

[senso]

thanks, I'll try to do do my best to find a solution.
things are probably more complex than appears...

[captaingoatboy]

Thanks senso,

I had an idea last night while playing with a looper patch i'm working on. i use the master sync and local sync modules in parrallel, the master feeds the tempo into the local module, with an On Activation module connected to the reset of the local sync, and finally I have the the cycle start of the local module going into the play button of a sampler (which is set to sync mode play button obviously). This allows me to keep the tempo but choose a larger or smaller cycle length (ie loop length) for looping. I was thinking this whole thing could be simplified if the local sync module had a button like 'sync with main tempo' on it, to retain the master tempo and also to keep it in sync without having to reset. I know this probably defeats the purpose of having a local sync module but it would allow the master cycle to be set to say, 8 bars, and you can use 2, 3, 4, 5 etc bar length loops and keep them in sync without being constrained to the master cycle length.

of course I could save you a bit of time and work by just using my two sync modules method on all my workspaces....

thanks

[senso]

It should not be a big problem to add a 'sync to the main tempo' switch on the local sync.
I'll try to put it on my 'TO DO' list.

[captaingoatboy]

awesome!!!