12-27-2019, 09:25 PM
Hi Thomas, thanks for getting into this when you should be ignoring it completely and enjoying a holiday 
I think it's important to maintain the open flexible functionality of the groove column.
e.g. For creating long slow phasing sequences, the current groove settings don't work, but with finer settings, it would be possible to experiment more with having patterns that take many cycles to re-sync with each other. Using this to work towards minimalism style results. It can be a really interesting compositional technique, but having some baked in top level groove clock would not allow it. Also I'm imagining using a pattern to gate the signal feeding a delay where the pattern it is running at a very slightly different speed to the other patterns, and also sending a trigger output to sync the delay time.
Stuff like that for me is what modular is all about - options to experiments without limitations. Rather than baked in features that apply to one specific function.
It's sometimes nice to have different patterns running with different grooves. So the drums and the bass might be swinging, but the melody might be straight, or there might be some straight background arps. Or some different groove.... snares pushing the beat with hats hanging back a bit. But for stuff like that to work, it has to be subtle, and you need per-track control of the groove.
I think it's important to maintain the open flexible functionality of the groove column.
e.g. For creating long slow phasing sequences, the current groove settings don't work, but with finer settings, it would be possible to experiment more with having patterns that take many cycles to re-sync with each other. Using this to work towards minimalism style results. It can be a really interesting compositional technique, but having some baked in top level groove clock would not allow it. Also I'm imagining using a pattern to gate the signal feeding a delay where the pattern it is running at a very slightly different speed to the other patterns, and also sending a trigger output to sync the delay time.
Stuff like that for me is what modular is all about - options to experiments without limitations. Rather than baked in features that apply to one specific function.
It's sometimes nice to have different patterns running with different grooves. So the drums and the bass might be swinging, but the melody might be straight, or there might be some straight background arps. Or some different groove.... snares pushing the beat with hats hanging back a bit. But for stuff like that to work, it has to be subtle, and you need per-track control of the groove.