First off I seriously appreciate the work you are doing with NerdSeq. I am a big fan (and customer, heh). Thanks for all the hard work!
I see what you mean about kill. Apologies, but I am going to dig into this a bit. Hopefully this will help explain what I am looking for.
The problem is that note off uses a whole step. I swung the timing to get a one tick 'note off' but that is cumbersome since yes you need to have groove add up to 6 per total number of steps ( B + 1 = C = 6*2) (Haven't done this much hex in AGES)
I spent some time scoping out the behavior of the KILL FX. The argument is the _length_ of the note _duration_ starting with the current step. So KILL 000 cuts the note right away (down to zero length if it is on the note step). Higher = longer and can overlap steps if there are no intervening notes.
It appears to be an absolute time.
For 150 BPM KILL 340 is the duration of 1 step in the pattern at x1 clock and for 100 BPM KILL 4E1 is one step (ratio of 1.5 like the BPM).
The minimum duration appears to be 25 mS but it seems to be fairly linear after that at 0.1 mS/step.
KILL FFF is approx 400 mS (measured 424 - 412 mS with my crappy scope depending on tempo)
So something like this pattern at 100 BPM
00 C#4
01 ---
02 --- ... KILL 190
03 E4 ... etc. etc
produces a note at 150 + 150 + 40 = 340 mS since KILL is relative to the current step (measured 341 mS). It ends ~110 mS early. I will tweak the number to see what sounds best for long held notes at this tempo.
Sorry to go on so long!
Thanks,
-James
I see what you mean about kill. Apologies, but I am going to dig into this a bit. Hopefully this will help explain what I am looking for.
The problem is that note off uses a whole step. I swung the timing to get a one tick 'note off' but that is cumbersome since yes you need to have groove add up to 6 per total number of steps ( B + 1 = C = 6*2) (Haven't done this much hex in AGES)
I spent some time scoping out the behavior of the KILL FX. The argument is the _length_ of the note _duration_ starting with the current step. So KILL 000 cuts the note right away (down to zero length if it is on the note step). Higher = longer and can overlap steps if there are no intervening notes.
It appears to be an absolute time.
For 150 BPM KILL 340 is the duration of 1 step in the pattern at x1 clock and for 100 BPM KILL 4E1 is one step (ratio of 1.5 like the BPM).
The minimum duration appears to be 25 mS but it seems to be fairly linear after that at 0.1 mS/step.
KILL FFF is approx 400 mS (measured 424 - 412 mS with my crappy scope depending on tempo)
So something like this pattern at 100 BPM
00 C#4
01 ---
02 --- ... KILL 190
03 E4 ... etc. etc
produces a note at 150 + 150 + 40 = 340 mS since KILL is relative to the current step (measured 341 mS). It ends ~110 mS early. I will tweak the number to see what sounds best for long held notes at this tempo.
Sorry to go on so long!
Thanks,
-James