Love my Hapax. Couldnt make music the way I want without it.
As a very long time Pyramid user making the switch was a big upgrade, but came with a few small caveats:
12 voice polyphony is an issue when I play with a sustain pedal. When I’m playing a piano sound or something that requires sustain, after I have hit the 12th note (which happens very fast when playing chords) the Hapax will no longer trigger any notes. I wish it would recycle the last played note so I don’t get a brick wall of no sound.
on the Pyramid I can set the default track length so that every track when deleted or reset starts at 4 bars. The Hapax cant do this as far as I can tell and every time I delete a track I have to reset the track length and it drives me mad! even copying from another track is a frustrating work around. I wish there was an option to “clear” a track of midi data, instead of “delete” a track and reset it to 1 bar.
MIDI clock not being sent out all the time— I use all my synths in local off mode so I the midi info passes through the Hapax before coming back into the devices which lets me use the midi effects like the arp for live playing. when I have the arp enabled i can only use it when the sequencer is playing, I cant play anything when its stopped!
I cant remember if there’s anything else bugging me, but these are just some small things that work against a pretty much irreplaceable sequencer
I’ll check again for midi clock always on settings— but as far as a default project goes I have that set up but it doesn’t help when I want to clear a track and it immediately reverts back to 1 bar instead of 4 or 8
As for the other thing, you may be right. Would mail squarp with this feature request, sounds like something that could go in the Misc settings (“default pattern length”), I don’t see it yet there.
Actually i have “clock on stop” turned on and it still does not send clock to my gear, only when the sequencer is running! I really spent some time thinking about it today……… the Hapax is running synced to my MX-1 which is the master clock. I’ll have to check if it sends sync on stop when the Hapax is the master.
Hmm, are you utilizing the “Apply Sustain” option on the Hapax? Maybe that has some sort of hidden polyphony limit. You could try turning it on (or off) and see if the behavior changes.
I’m using a sustain pedal on the keyboard not the apply sustain option on the hapax but maybe ill play around with that a bit and see what it can do-- for piano sounds its pretty important to have the sustain as a momentary switch but its not a huge pain for me otherwise