Scrap Musician XL
Digital step sequencer with programmable wire playlist and on-the-fly step editing, has 32 step sequencers of 16 steps wich can be used in a playlist of 1024 steps, internal counter made by refuse.
Weld to the ground to minimize lag
example projects:
xampl XL
Retroflector
General:
blue section – playlist panel
grey section – step sequencers
black section – instrument panel
time section – clock & counter
I/0 gates:
rainbow playlist – sequencer playlist inputs
rainbow instrument panel – sequencer instrument outputs
black gates instrument panel – binary sequencer position
blue on time section – binary song/playlist position
behind checkered line – song/playlist position
white – clock input (replace default yellow clock for different tempo)
Transport:
blue button – cue back to start
blue switch – play/pause
red button – rewind one step
green button – forward one step
yellow switch – metronome
Sequencing & song length (place blocks!):
black switches – mute sequence
grey sensor slots – steps
white sensor gaps – ignore playlist & loop
blue/greenish gaps – set playlist length
Not using the playlist:
Programming your playlist may require some wiring, block the white sensors if you hate wiring or just want to make a funky 4-beat loop, this will make the corresponding sequencers stay on and ignore the playlist
Using the playlist:
Connect FROM blue/green gates behind the checkered line TO rainbow inputs to patch individual playlist positions into the desired sequencer with the wire tool.
Add a XOR gate to also patch entire groups of positions from the growing time-elapsed bar to the desired sequencer, every pair of wires will act like one selection (the XOR gate simply patches into the rainbow OR gate).
The the blue-greenish slot controls the size of the playlist, you can choose between 64,128, 256, 512 and 1024 steps by filling none or one of the 4 positions with a block.
Tips & tricks:
– the song time defaults to 64 steps if the playlist length slot is left empty
– use bits from the binary song/sequencer position if you need items at regular intervals, or other custom behaviour.
– the playlist can also be used to trigger totebot heads, add 3 ticks/gates of delay to compensate for the sequencer bypass.
– Individual steps can also be outputs if you want to write an arpeggio or lead, this saves you from having to use an entire sequencer for just one note, don’t forget to delay the output 1 tick to compensate for bypassing the regular instrument output.
