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Great generator, a shame it doesn't feature shuffle and random on the gate lanes too.

A legato function would be handy as well.

Thanks!

I've detected a bug.

When the Notes value is changed, the sequence doesn't update.

You have to turn a gate step off and on or viceversa to make it update.

Hope that helps.

Thanks, I’ll check it out and fix that one. 
Random/shuffle on the gates could be cool, I’ll mess around with it when I get a chance. 

Thanks for the update, there's one other thing:

Generators are usually able to to generate notes only within a selected time frame within the clip if wanted.

This one always takes up the whole clip even if you make a time selection before pressing Generate.

Hope that helps, thanks again.

Good catch, I got it working like that with one catch, you have select the time and then press the apply button before entering gates in the tool. After that it works as expected for the remainder of the time using it in that clip. I can't figure out why it isn't working when just selecting time and entering gates from the beginning. I'm sure it's an order of operations issue but at the moment I can't figure it out. If I figure that out I'll update to fix it later on. Thanks for the bug hunt.

It seems like everything works once gates have been entered the first time. it's a hacky fix for now but having the Gates initialized with one step makes everything work as expected, you just have to first delete the note in the clip. Either ways a work around but I like this better for now, you don't have remember to do anything before using it you just delete what's already there and it works. I see you've made a tool also, my patching is a messy disaster but if you have any suggestions id love to hear them.

Thanks for the tip.

Other than that little problem, I think the tool is brilliant for creating extremely weird and experimental rhythms by combining the Steps value with different Gate values.

I see that you added randomization to the gates but no shuffle sadly, that's what I'd implement next.

I would also remove two of the step lanes and leave a single one with random and shuffle, as the other two always end up adding too many notes to the overall sequence when randomized. Either way, keep it up!

Yeah I plan on adding scramble, random was easy to add but scramble will take a bit more work. I’ll get around to it:)

Scramble was easier than I expected, Kept the 3 lanes though that's my favorite part haha One mans trash and all:)

haha, far from it man, thanks

Been using this a lot lately and it's got me thinking it would be nice if the notes in the lanes could be nudged left and right.

Also, the first step of the pitch sequence defaults to F3, any quick way of changing that to C3?

Cheers.

Nudge is a good idea! I’ll check out the default notes. 

The 1.5 update is incredible.

Everything works perfectly and the nudge and quantize features are amazing, thanks!

Thanks, I appreciate the suggestions and feedback back:)

Anytime.

Do you think you could add polyphony to it?

I'm thinking a simple slider to determine the number of polyphony voices within a range of 2 to 7, plus two different stacking modes: chromatic and scale aware.

Maybe, I’ve never messed with polyphony but I don’t see why not? I’ll mess around with it one day when I get a chance. 

Do you think you could make a transformation version of this to slice notes? All the slicing tools available are quite bad at applying irregular and complex rhythms. This tool functioning as a MIDI transformer would nail that task.

Maybe? Like the slicing would be determined by where the gates are? 

Yeah, exactly.

I've been trying to do it with the generator, but the problem is the note gets replaced by a new sequence, whereas with a transformation tool, the pitch of the note would remain intact and only the slicing would be applied.

I might be able to, I’ve found native max has some limits for some of this when there’s loops of transformations and it’s way easier to do it in  JavaScript. I’m working on a transformer as a project to learn JavaScript right now so once I know the basics I’d be up to try a figure it out. How do you see the ui working? Like if a clip has 8  notes and the tool had 8 steps anywhere a gate would hit a note gets sliced or the gates represent note count but not position so that 1 gate would slice one out of every 8 notes no matter where they are in relation to the gates. If there are 2 gates would the amount of slices per note be determined by the multislider? Feel free to email me if you don’t want to have a giant conversation in the comments section haha my emails my user name here @gmail