Favourite tips n' tricks?

How’s everyone enjoying their Hapax so far?
I haven’t had a tonne of time to use mine yet but it’s definitely the most streamlined and intuitive midi sequencer I’ve ever used.

Also wondering what everyones favourite feature or trick is?
I’m going to make some time today to run a few arpeggiations with chance FX enabled and create some interesting random melodies.

I’ve been a little bit downhearted because of the slow update speed,
seeing as the creators were talking about a lot of new features in the first 6 months of release, but it’s already a highly functional unit and it sounds like there has been some personal stuff going on behind the scenes slowing things down which is fine.

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Been playing with Euclidean and probability lately. Can see myself using that more in the future. Both with drums and synths. Try and make tracks change and progress by twisting knobs rather than elaborate sequencing.

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add your lfos and then go to automation screen and add a track controlling the lfo parameters per step!

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for drum patterns use maths on all or some of the voices. each one should be different so they are constantly phasing in and out but still never “loop”

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I haven’t really built any tips and tricks as of yet. But building a starting template has proved very useful. Especially now that I am getting back into modular along side my midi gear

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if you work in a daw with vsts/clap setting up a template with 3-4 drum channels and all other channels preset to the right midi channel can get you into making music fast.

I would love to resurrect this thread!

Anyways, I’ve got one. It’s a workflow tip for using Elektron sequencers with the hapax. I like to pattern chain my elektron machines to span multiple patterns for longer loops, but that is quite fiddly to do on the hapax if you try to control that in one pattern, as you have to use automation events, it’s just fiddly. It finally dawned on me that I can use follow actions. I’ve got the syntakt with a pattern on 1 and 2. I always want 1 and 2 to loop, so I set up pattern 1 and 2 via PC 1/2 on the hapax. Then I use follow next on pattern 1, and follow previous on pattern 2. Easy. Now I have an 8-page loop on the syntakt, controlled by the hapax.

If you want to do longer loops, you can set up a contiguous chunk of 4 or more, and just use follow next on all of them. As long as you leave a gap, the patterns will loop back around to the beginning of the chunk.

Seems obvious, as this is follow-action 101. But I never put 2 and 2 together until now that I could use to chain my elektron patterns.

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