Troubleshooting 'pure now'... and another (possibly) related question.
by adam.casciaro@icloud.com
Hello all!
So, I recently posted about instantaneous clock resetting and sample launching, because at the start of a song I wanted to launch a series of long samples form the beginning, and I found my solution to that, but in the process I was recommended to try using 'pure now'...
I have tried previously to use 'pure now' when trying out the 'seqP' function in the Tidal website reference guide, but I could not get it to work, and I have no idea how to work out what I'm doing wrong. I am literally copying and pasting the examples form the website:
d1 $ seqP [
(0, 12, sound "bd bd*2"),
(4, 12, sound "hh*2 [sn cp] cp future*4"),
(8, 12, sound (samples "arpy*8" (run 16)))
]
This one works fine, after I 'cps (-1)'... but then when I try this one:
d1 $ (pure now) ~> seqP [
(0, 12, sound "bd bd*2"),
(4, 12, sound "hh*2 [sn cp] cp future*4"),
(8, 12, sound (samples "arpy*8" (run 16)))
]
I cannot get it to begin playing...
My secondary question is whether or not I could use this mid-performance to start a long sequence from the beginning without affecting all other sequences currently playing... if not, is there a workaround for this?
Just to clarify what I actually mean by this: I want to start a few sequences of 1-cycle lengths, improvise for a bit, and then start another, longer, pre-written sequence with a length of maybe of maybe 2 or 4-cycles (using the 'slow' functions or '<>' brackets) without finding that it begins on the third cycle... I can think of a number of reasons why what I want may not be possible... but I'm hoping my intuitions are incorrect in this case.
I know this is what I get for using Tidal basically like a text-version of Ableton Live, which I know it wasn't really intended for, but I prefer the text interface so much more than live GUI programs... so I am determined to persevere...
Thanks in advance for you help!