Hi, Is there any way to set an earlier end point for say, my hi-hat track or my snare track without using up a whole other track? Everything is locked to X amount of steps if they’re part of one of the 8 drum lanes on a drum track. It would be great to set independent lengths for each lane, like on an Elektron sequencer for example. Right now if I want to have a drum kit and vary the length of each part, I can’t without using up an entire track. This makes it hard to create polyrhythms in the way that I’m used-to. IIRC OXI One can do this.
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Surely I can’t be the only one who wants this? Am I overlooking on how to do this?
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I’m afraid I don’t know of a way to do this, but yes I’d love this to be possible.
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Hey
You can use the euclid midi effect as a workaround, since you can target a specific drum lane as input and set a given amount of steps. (Note: i too would like this feat to be implemented in the grid mode).
There are many requests for this, and also old threads, for now I’m just using another track, and set it to another length. I’m sure it will come soon.
This is an okay workaround, thanks. But I think this is an essential missing feature in the Hapax.
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Bump! Being able to select individual lengths for each drum lane from the grid is a mission critical feature for me! I was very surprised that hapax didn’t have this. Hoping to see it in a future update!
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I have been thinking that maybe an interesting approach for this, is that instead of simply setting a lane to a specific length and calling it a day, how about instead we could set loop ranges within the lane?
I can’t quite wrap my head around what button combo would be best suited, but imagine that we had a lane setup page where we could set the loop start, loop end, move the loop as a whole throughout the length of the pattern and even have dividers and multipliers for the speed of the loop. All automatable of course 
The real question would be, why restrict this functionality to just drum lanes
To take this concept one step further, there could be sequence “steps” which contain an individual sequence.. Like a sequence within a sequence.. Placed on the grid via.. Steps 
Still not sure why the Euclidean seq on individual hits is simply a “work around.” Its fun, immediate, and comes to life w simple modulation of rate and/or pulses. Not saying what your asking for isnt valid but i think if youre open to doing it the way squarp has provided you might find it more interesting or useful. Throw odd timing maths on some hits for more unusual rhythms in addition to the Euclidean sequencer. I recommend using a slow unsync’d project LFO on a couple of the Euclidean sequencers parameters as well.
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This sounds like youre describing a euclidean sequencer. Or im sure you could achieve something like this by writing a sequence and having each note “roll” at different rates. I never use it but the function in which hapax plays random 16 step portions of the track youre working w could be helpful to realize your idea.
The Euclid effect is awesome no doubt, but it doesn’t have any velocity controls.
I’d love more polyrhythm options as well, but I don’t really feel limited as it is, just always room for improvement.
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yeah it’s shocking. This is one area where Oxi One is supreme. I suppose it’s something about the core software architecture which much make this very difficult to implement without a rewrite, or else I’m sure he’d have done it already.
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I agree. I think just the simple variable length of a drum lane would be enough for me, personally. Is this on the roadmap? I really don’t feel like the euclidian workaround is adequate.