Pattern overlap
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2016 6:25 am
I mentioned this as a missing feature in my review on Google Play and was corrected, but I actually still haven't figured out how it's done. Perhaps I was misunderstood to be looking for the "Allow long playing Samples to overlap Pattern Changes" setting?
So basically what I'm looking for is something like this: say I have a drum beat set up in the A-01 pattern and various melodic parts in patterns A-02, A-03, A-04. Now I want to arrange a song such that A-01 is looping in the background while I play the melody patterns. In Caustic for example, this is easily done in the pattern sequencer by dragging the drum pattern to cover the time of the arrangement of the melody patterns. Unless I'm missing something, in G-Stomper I would need to copy the "Sampler Sequences" of the drum pattern to each of the melody patterns, which works, but means that changes aren't reflected in the copies etc, and changes in the arrangement take much more manual (and more error-prone) labour.
So what I mean by overlap is, being able to arrange for patterns to play simultaneously, "overlapping" each other:
(Not trying to plug a competitor here; both are great apps with their own merits.)
So basically what I'm looking for is something like this: say I have a drum beat set up in the A-01 pattern and various melodic parts in patterns A-02, A-03, A-04. Now I want to arrange a song such that A-01 is looping in the background while I play the melody patterns. In Caustic for example, this is easily done in the pattern sequencer by dragging the drum pattern to cover the time of the arrangement of the melody patterns. Unless I'm missing something, in G-Stomper I would need to copy the "Sampler Sequences" of the drum pattern to each of the melody patterns, which works, but means that changes aren't reflected in the copies etc, and changes in the arrangement take much more manual (and more error-prone) labour.
So what I mean by overlap is, being able to arrange for patterns to play simultaneously, "overlapping" each other:
(Not trying to plug a competitor here; both are great apps with their own merits.)