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2.16.0 — Arrange, Chance, Meter X, Cycle, Record, Play

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@stuart78 stuart78 released this 15 Jul 15:32
v2.16.0
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Six modules come out of hiding in this release, each with a full manual.

New modules

Arrange — the song-form brain. A linear chain of 8 phrases (intro, verse, chorus, break), each with a bar length, its own root/scale/BPM, and a gate out that stays high for the whole section. It drives 4 per-instrument clock buses: each channel has its own clock division and CLOCK / BAR / RESET / EOC outputs, muted on any phrase where that channel is off — so instruments drop in and out per section on their own, and a returning channel fires RESET so it re-enters in sync. LED dots cascade BPM, root, and scale down the chain independently.

Chance — a generative melodic sequencer built on the idea that a melody is a walk. A seeded deterministic core plus a non-cascading BRANCH stray, so the tune always shows through no matter how far it wanders. Note choice runs through hand-authored Markov tables (chord-tone gravity, leading-tone pull) rather than a coin flip. GRAV and DRIFT set direction and move size; Rest, Hold, Leap and Ratchet shape the line, each with CV. Eight seeded patterns with per-step gates and ties, plus a Varied harmony voice.

Meter X — a Meter expander for the long game: a 24 PPQN clock, a run gate, and Bar / 2 / 4 / 8 / 16 / 32 / 64 / 128-bar triggers, each with a cycle pie that fills as you move through the section. Place it to the right of Meter; no cables.

Cycle — a bar-synced quad LFO. Four channels on one cycle, locked to a musical bar (free-running in Hz unpatched), with a closed shape ring — sine through stepped-random and back — so shape CV and link offsets wrap continuously instead of clamping.

Record — an auto-sampler. Point it at any voice, press record, and it sweeps notes × velocities, captures each, and writes WAVs plus an .sfz. Audition mode, round-robins, loop-point detection, and latency calibration.

Play — a polyphonic multisample player for .sfz and DecentSampler .dspreset. 16 voices, velocity layers, round-robins, loops-while-held, multiple instruments selectable by CV.

Improvements

  • Fugue now uses the shared scale list. A SCALE CV selects the same scale on every module in the set — Note, Fugue, MetaFugue, Muse, Chance, and Arrange. Existing Fugue patches are migrated automatically, so your saved scales are preserved.
  • Root and Scale CV are a shared convention (1V/oct and 1V/scale) across the sequencers, so one source can key the whole patch.
  • Meter gains a "BPM CV absolute" option (0.01V/BPM) so Arrange can set the tempo directly.
  • New manuals for all six modules, plus README entries with panel images.
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