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Originally Posted by namnibor
On the Blo's large screen you of course could select from many patterns and also user patterns and actually is shy of being a full-on sequencer...certainly easier and less of headache to set-up that on my Virus KC.
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How are the user patterns created? Imported midi file?
On the ultranova it just seems like a dumb limitation. Especially since there is a proper visual gate pattern editor, with stereo editing.
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Originally Posted by namnibor
With that said, have learned using the DAW as work around for both Virus and Blofeld is simply faster, if anything else.
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There was a time when I would just do everything in the DAW because a lot of arp situations lend themselves to that. Lately though, I've been using the arp + latch feature of the Ultranova as more of a composition tool to find some catchy melodies before I go too far with the DAW. For example, left hand on the UN, right hand on the MKII controlling a softsynth like Dune, where the Ultranova is doing a rolling/arpy bassline and Dune is doing a lead. Then map a couple of touch knobs to things like subtle osc pitch tweaks, a little sync or distortion etc to make it easy to make the bassline really dynamic. It's just a really fast way of getting inspiration. But I can't quite take it exactly where I want with the UN, because I've only got a choice of the few-dozen preset patterns, and to really change them I have to do things like change timing and add delay's to change up the groove. Something like one of the aforementioned arp editors on the UN would add tremendous value.