@thcilnnahoj wrote:
Come to think of it, I’ve heard from a guy who switched from Logic to Cubase that he seriously misses this. I never seemed to ‘get it’ though. 😕
Say you want a simple 1/4 pause in your usual hi-hat groove – wouldn’t you have to insert an empty event and restart the looped sequence after that?
Seems a bit complicated to me, but then again, I’ve never seen it in action!
Yes. It helps more in the early stages though, as once you know how long a section will be, you’d either just drag out a ‘real’ loop, or duplicate events to the right length – a great feature would be being able to ‘convert a ghost loop’ at a set point in the timeline, that could do this for you.
Another great variation on this is the pattern sequencer track in Reason. It’s also similar to automation tracks if you think about it – something is set to happen until you set another point telling it not to.
(I’d actually like to see a ‘pattern track’, with used defined patterns – so you could insert markers to change the current pattern to named patterns, and each pattern could be a midi event, audio event, or trigger event such as a single midi note triggering a pattern generator).
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