Scrap Musician
Digital step sequencer with programmable wire playlist and on-the-fly step editing, has 14 step sequencers of 16 steps wich can be used in a playlist of 512 steps, internal counter made by refuse.
Weld to the ground to minimize lag.
General:
blue section – playlist panel
grey section – step sequencers
black section – instrument panel
time section – clock & counter
example projects/other versions:
xampl
couch surfin
Hammer mime; hard wired into an early version of this machine.
Scrap Musician XL
I/0 gates:
rainbow playlist – sequencer playlist inputs
rainbow instrument panel – sequencer instrument outputs
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 (place blocks!):
grey sensor slots – steps
white sensor gaps – ignore playlist & loop
black switches – mute sequence
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 keep the corresponding sequencers activated until the block is removed.
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.
Use a XOR gate to patch entire groups of positions from the growing time-elapsed bar to the desired sequencer, every pair of wires will work like a group selection (the XOR you’ve added simply patches into the rainbow OR gate).
Tips & tricks:
– use the binary playlist position if you need items at regular intervals, or other custom behaviour of the playlist.
– the playlist can also be used to trigger totebot heads, add 2 ticks/gates of delay to compensate for the sequencer bypass.
– Individual steps can also be outputs if you want to write a brief arpeggio or tonal score, this saves you from having to use up one sequencer per note, though you’ll have to delay the output 1 tick to compensate for bypassing the regular instrument output, use AND’s so you can still patch playlist positions into the score.
