feature request : an instruments layer

[rawthought]

To obtain the sound I want, I often play the same score by multiple intruments.

For exemple, I like to use two "3xOSC" for my bass sounds: one is squarish/trianglish for acid sound, and the other is pure sin for the round bass sound.

It would be great if we could link multiple instruments and use them in only one piano-roll/bass-line to avoid multiple identical scores.
(I hope I'm understandable)

[diizy]

On 03/13/2014 10:56 AM, rawthought wrote:

To obtain the sound I want, I often play the same score by multiple
intruments.

For exemple, I like to use two "3xOSC" for my bass sounds: one is
squarish/trianglish for acid sound, and the other is pure sin for the
round bass sound.

It would be great if we could link multiple instruments and use them
in only one piano-roll/bass-line to avoid multiple identical scores.
(I hope I'm understandable)

You can already sort of do this by daisy-chaining the instrument tracks
together via MIDI input/output. However it doesn't work perfectly, as
native non-MIDI features won't get translated to the 2nd instrument
(note pitch bends and such), so a feature like this could still be
useful. This seems like a somewhat popular request too, I'm sure I've
seen it requested before elsewhere.

Something like an option in an instrument track: "Link to instrument..."
or "Get input from instrument..." which would pop up a dialog to select
the track where notes would be acquired from. (Or, conversely: "Send
output to instrument...")

Some practical considerations:

• would the second track still allow patterns of it own, or should the
  track be "disabled" in some way? It could be fun if you could first
  double the notes of the first track on to the second, then add extra
  notes on the second track, which would play on that track only.
• how would this be represented, GUI-wise? I'm thinking maybe a
  link-icon, like a piece of chain, could appear on tracks that take input
  from other tracks. Maybe another icon for tracks that send output to
  other tracks, not sure what that would be, yet.
• should we allow chaining? ie. double track 1 to track 2, then track 2
  to track 3... that would mean we'd have to do some kind of dependency
  resolution to prevent infinite loops.

[rawthought]

well, thanks for your answer,
I was not aware of that "daisy-chaining" stuff, I'll try that pretty soon.

I've tryied FL-Studio a few years ago, and there was a quite simple plugin called "chansettings layer"...
In my memory it only can handle samples and not other type of instruments (3OSC etc..) but it was quitte useful...

There was 3 modes of functionnement (as I can remember),
it was allowing :

• random playing betwin selected samples
• assignation of each sample to a keynote
• playing all samples together, allowing the use of a knob controle to fade from a sample to another

https://www.image-line.com/support/FLHelp/html/chansettings_layer.htm