Hi, I’m a potential purchaser. I looked in the manual but still wasn’t sure of the answer.
I want to loop drums and but then have longer tracks playing over the top, especially with long automation. Imagine a drum loop but then a long synth chord that fades in over say five minutes. I can do this with backing tracks but I’d like to be able to tweak the synth live.
Back in the day I could do this kind of thing easily on my Ensoniq SD and I can do it easily in Logic, but this is for a live setup and I don’t really want my laptop on stage.
Is this possible with Hapax or even Pyramid? Can i run pattern tracks and song length automation at the same time?
Potentially solving my own problem, can i not make a very long pattern that contains only note on data at the start, then run a volume automation across say 100 bars?
Given each pattern has a 32-bar limit, you could try a mix of the following to get more length from a pattern: try having note data one one track with INF note length, with automation/cc data on another track set to 32 bars with elasticity of 50% (so I suppose that would be effective 64 bars), then chain patterns with follow actions if you need longer automation (e.g. cc 0-31 on one pattern, 32-63 on another etc.).
For Hapax anyway – I don’t know if this limitation exists in the Pyramid.