A better Arp

[MikeB]

@d-healey

This is my entry from last year.
Since then I have been looking for a solution to this problem.
Everyone here says no problem and no one has a concrete solution or even a promising approach.

It's no use telling a newcomer: why don't you program a sequencer or an arp yourself?

https://forum.hise.audio/topic/4567/arp-stopp-on-preset-change?_=1662626737608

[d.healey]

@MikeB

It's no use telling a newcomer: why don't you program a sequencer or an arp yourself?

I wouldn't tell a newcomer to write an arp, I'd tell them to start with something simpler and work their way up to it.

Please David - I am 63 years old and have been making music for 50 years and with a computer for 30 years. I know what an Arp, a sequencer and a MidiPlayer is.

You seem to be using the terms arp and sequencer interchangeably so I was trying to clarify the differences.

There are two requests here:

You want an on/off button for the arp. Can you explain how this works from the user's point of view because I don't really understand. The arp responds to MIDI on/off, so if there is no MIDI what will an on/off button do?

You want the arp to continue playing when changing presets. This seems like a reasonable idea to me.

@Christoph-Hart If/when you're making some modifications to the arp - the hold button doesn't work correctly, when it's turned off the arp continues to hold on the next new note. Also I always see these Hell breaks loose if you kill real events artificially! messages in the console when using the arp.

[ulrik]

@MikeB I managed to keep the arp running (well not really, but restart), when you change presets with the preset bowser.
I've written some issues it contains, inside the code.

1. It will restart from the beginning so if you change preset at position 7, it will restart at first slider.

Is there a way to start the arp at a specific position @Christoph-Hart ?

2. The restart have to be made right after the sent AllNotesOff message so I used a timer, and I tried different timer values and it work with the current delay of 60ms, if it's set lower it will interfere with the noteoff message. So you'll get a delay

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[MikeB]

@d-healey said in A better Arp:

@MikeB

You seem to be using the terms arp and sequencer interchangeably so I was trying to clarify the differences.

There are two requests here:

You want an on/off button for the arp. Can you explain how this works from the user's point of view because I don't really understand. The arp responds to MIDI on/off, so if there is no MIDI what will an on/off button do?

You want the arp to continue playing when changing presets. This seems like a reasonable idea to me.

@Christoph-Hart If/when you're making some modifications to the arp - the hold button doesn't work correctly, when it's turned off the arp continues to hold on the next new note. Also I always see these Hell breaks loose if you kill real events artificially! messages in the console when using the arp.

No - I already understood that - but unfortunately HISE doesn't have a sequencer apart from the one I made a year ago - which isn't a real sequencer either.

https://forum.hise.audio/topic/4579/the-hise-16-step-sequencer?_=1662636138581

The HISE Arp is actually ingenious and can do more than it is given credit for.
And that's how I want to use it.

As I said, I have been working with VSTs for many years and am also subject to a G.A.S.

which puts me in a position to own and judge hundreds of plug-ins. I actually use maybe 20 - but they are really good.

But one thing has always been missing over the years. I would now like to build one myself with HISE. With my modest knowledge of Javascript and the support of the HISE community.

Let's get back to the problem:
It's not a missing start/stop button - I've had that in since last year - no, the problem is that the "ARP" and "Midi Player" stop when a preset is changed.
Which it shouldn't as a drum VST - as I said, none of them do.

I will post a video at the weekend on how DRUM-VST behaves in a DAW - maybe it will become clearer then.

However, Ulrik has already solved the problem - see below - at least it seems so. If it is now guaranteed that the arp runs synchronously and does not generate dropouts which would of course be unusable with a running drum VST, that would be the solution to all my HISE problems for the time being :-)

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[MikeB]

@ulrik You are a genius Ulrik.
Why didn't you come out with it last year? :-) :-) :-)

Thank you very much - it gives me hope to continue with my project.

Genius.

Ok, the delay is not so good but maybe solvable.

What if it always delays the set value.
1/4, 1/8, 1/16 etc. It should first load the preset in peace and then play it from the next bar.

[ulrik]

@MikeB said in A better Arp:

However, Ulrik has already solved the problem - see below - at least it seems so. If it is now guaranteed that the arp runs synchronously and does not generate dropouts which would of course be unusable with a running drum VST, that would be the solution to all my HISE problems for the time being :-)

Actually I have not solved the problem, I just tried to restart the arp after a AllNotesOff message and it could be done, but with a delay and the arp will always start from the beginning, I don't see it as a solid solution.

[MikeB]

@ulrik said in A better Arp:

@MikeB said in A better Arp:

However, Ulrik has already solved the problem - see below - at least it seems so. If it is now guaranteed that the arp runs synchronously and does not generate dropouts which would of course be unusable with a running drum VST, that would be the solution to all my HISE problems for the time being :-)

Actually I have not solved the problem, I just tried to restart the arp after a AllNotesOff message and it could be done, but with a delay and the arp will always start from the beginning, I don't see it as a solid solution.

Thank you - It's a start Ulrik.

One problem after the other :-)

[MikeB]

@ulrik
I seem to remember that there is a possible sync with the playhead internally and/or externally in the DAW.

[ulrik]

@MikeB Yes you're right, then it might be possible to line it up right in time

[MikeB]

@ulrik
Do the three statements by Christoph in this article help?
Could you get it syncronized with that?

https://forum.hise.audio/topic/4175/playhead/11?_=1662716057321