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Old 09-27-2018, 07:30 PM   #48
TonE
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How far are we from a first playlist prototype? It could work as follows, as suggested before, here the most minimal suggestion:

- marker 'playlist' is where playlist will be arranged
- for each track, all items in arrange from left to right until marker playlist are counted and named a la buzz 0..9, a..z
- that's it, an excel table is used to enter values 0..9, a..z and those items will be placed in arrange after marker 'playlist'

- for simplicity, each excel cell could be 1 bar
- for simplicity, no muting yet
- for simplicity, no break yet


A more crazy, nowhere else available yet, playlist variant could work as follows:
- depending on the zoom level, above example with 1 bar
- any item longer than 1 bar will be named a la buzz, all shorter items will be ignored
- arrange will follow your excel entries
- if you change zoom level, e.g. shorten it to 1 beat instead of 1 bar, naming will be for all items longer than 1 beat, thus the arrange will also change accordingly, this is the crazy behaviour part, you could switch zoom levels, and listen to a new arranged variant. Crazy but why not, as an experimental feature?

For loop techno one could select e.g. 2 beat zoom level.

Additionally, the playlist could support, by default, logic like auto looping, also not available in normal buzz. Everything would auto-loop from excel cell starting position until 'playlist' + 10mins position. You can stop auto-loop by adding a break or another item value, thus the new item would auto-loop. This would remove the need to retype same value just for looping, nowaday we want loops anyway, mostly, in electronic music. At least with a tracker interface.

Last edited by TonE; 09-27-2018 at 07:55 PM.
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