pattern change playhead behavior #2
Description
reported
Apologies if this is due to my ignorance, but I've found that when changing between patterns of different links there is a gap in playback.
For instance, pattern 1 has all 16 steps programmed, whereas pattern 2 only has 8. Depending on the position of the playhead when switching from pattern 1 to pattern 2, pattern 2 may start playing outside its loop points where there is no note/trigger data, resulting in an undesirable gap.
It would be nice if, when switching patterns, it respected the loop points and did not attempt to start playback from outside them.
response
this is true. the workaround is to use a queued pattern change by holding
ALT. this will switch patterns when the current pattern loops hits start
again.
your point is a good one, though. but the default behavior for out-of-loop
is awkward. it doesn't seem right to just reset to start for phase reasons.
we could do a step position wrap, which might sound/work correctly.