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Global View

Christophe Lengelé edited this page Mar 27, 2023 · 9 revisions

The Global tab view, with eight tracks that can hold sequence presets, looks quite similar to the Session window in Ableton's Live software. The sequences, which have a variable number of events and durations, can be played consecutively, randomly or not successively (the last one is only available with a tablet and the application Lemur).

Global

View of the Global tab, showing eight tracks (the last track at bottom right is hidden by the Preset Associations window which can recall a specific configuration of spatialised event sequences in multiple tracks). Each track contains a set of sequences (240 max.), within which one can navigate (about twenty for each track are visible at the same time). These sequence presets, with a variable number of events and durations, can be selected using the red rangeslider to the left of each track and played in a loop or randomly. The blue slider to the right of the rangeslider indicates the currently playing sequence and a red sequence indicates that at least one parameter of the precomposed sequence has been modified from the original preset. In my performance practice, while the five tracks (one at the top right and the other four at the bottom) represent the rhythm tracks, the first three tracks at the top left bring together game sequences (Sequence Jeux) and textures. The sequences are classified here by type or sound family with different colors (for example, blue for soft sequences, purple for more violent sequences, generally integrating effects, or green for sequences evoking the four elements: earth, water, air and fire).

In the final improvisation, multiple sequences with different parameter behaviors in different tracks can then be called up, played, looped, and modified in real time with different mappings according to multiple controllers. The improviser can therefore focus either at the macro level on the organization of sequences (Global View), the manipulation of global effects (FX Views), or at the micro level on the modulation of scales and the length of series of parameter values within a sequence (Sequence View).

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