Rayzoon Technologies LLC

[Philosorhymes]

Hi, I am having a slight problem, with Jamstix; I would like to do the following,

1) load a MIDI loop that I have and occasionally (at my request ) have some accents using the Carter Drum style,

2) With a key press I would like to do a fill. I do not want Jamstix to continually come up with new accents and fills, except when I say.


Also, can anybody tell me what it means when a bar is red on the timeline and how I may clear it?

[Ralph [RZ]]

[Philosorhymes]

Cheers Ralph, one more question, is there anyway i can stop Jamstix from recording the performance? I'll tell you why i ask,

I would typically have a beat running in the background and I would occasionally like to trigger a fill here or there depending on how the song is running. Once I press stop on my Player, I would obviously return to the beginning (bar 1 in Jamstix), so when I start again Jamstix would effectively repeat the performance I just did. This is what I don't want,

I could solve this if I could some how switch off the timeline in Jamstix or somehow tell it stop recording, this would cause it to be intuitive everytime and fills would only come when I say. As of now, I have to go to song and select reset song and then start again which is time consuming when you are on stage; Have you any suggestions?

Many Thanks.

Phil.

[Ralph [RZ]]

Not sure I fully understand but it sounds as if the problem is that the host returns to zero upon stop. Wouldn't the problem be solved if the host would just restart at the same bar it stopped?
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Ralph Zeuner
Rayzoon Technologies LLC
http://www.rayzoon.com

[Philosorhymes]

Hi Ralph, thanks for replying so quick.

[quote="Ralph [RZ]"].... Wouldn't the problem be solved if the host would just restart at the same bar it stopped?[/quote

Not really, this would be a temporary fix and not so robust, the only way to get the clock to start up on beat is to restart it from the beginning otherwise it would start in the middle of a beat or wherever I stopped it. (Not the end of the world but not the best either)

Also, what would happen when it gets to the end of the repititions?(I am not sure what the maximum number of repitions is) Or if I change to another groove(verse chorus, e.t.c) and then come back to that one? I would have to start again anyway, and so the recorded performance will play out again;

Basically, I am a live (and very spontaneous Jammer), I would need to be able to have a lot of control over what sections jamstix plays and when.

I know Jamstix is very sohisticated but If you think of the home keyboard style where you play a beat and then press a button for a fill whenever you want or another button to go to section b or a or intro or ending, this is the kind of model I am going on but with the added realism or Jamstix creativity.

I like the accenting that Jamstix provides and I have enough control over that, it's just the control over bars and what they do when.

many thanks

Phil.

[Ralph [RZ]]

I recommend you use the Liveloop mode (keyboard icon in the song sheet) so that you can trigger specific parts using program change commands from your master keyboard. I would set repetitions very high so you won't run out of them.

Also, you can map a MIDI key to 'Recomposition' in the 'Options' screen so that you get new fills even if you rewind the project.
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Ralph Zeuner
Rayzoon Technologies LLC
http://www.rayzoon.com

[Philosorhymes]

[Ralph [RZ]]

Liveloops will still change parts when it runs out of repetitions but setting a high number can assure that this won't happen.

Recomposing will not delete manually triggered fills. We'll see about a adding a function for that.
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Ralph Zeuner
Rayzoon Technologies LLC
http://www.rayzoon.com