Scrap Musician

Digital step sequencer with programmable wire playlist and on-the-fly step editing, has 14 step sequencers of 16 steps wich can be used in a playlist of 512 steps, internal counter made by refuse. Weld to the ground to minimize lag.

General: blue section - playlist panel grey section - step sequencers black section - instrument panel time section - clock & counter

example projects/other versions: xampl couch surfin Hammer mime; hard wired into an early version of this machine. Scrap Musician XL

I/0 gates: rainbow playlist - sequencer playlist inputs rainbow instrument panel - sequencer instrument outputs blue on time section - binary song/playlist position behind checkered line - song/playlist position white - clock input (replace default yellow clock for different tempo)

Transport: blue button - cue back to start blue switch - play/pause red button - rewind one step green button - forward one step yellow switch - metronome

Sequencing (place blocks!): grey sensor slots - steps white sensor gaps - ignore playlist & loop

black switches - mute sequence

Not using the playlist: Programming your playlist may require some wiring, block the white sensors if you hate wiring or just want to make a funky 4-beat loop, this will keep the corresponding sequencers activated until the block is removed.

Using the playlist: Connect FROM blue/green gates behind the checkered line TO rainbow inputs to patch individual playlist positions into the desired sequencer with the wire tool.

Use a XOR gate to patch entire groups of positions from the growing time-elapsed bar to the desired sequencer, every pair of wires will work like a group selection (the XOR you've added simply patches into the rainbow OR gate).

Tips & tricks:

• use the binary playlist position if you need items at regular intervals, or other custom behaviour of the playlist.
• the playlist can also be used to trigger totebot heads, add 2 ticks/gates of delay to compensate for the sequencer bypass.
• Individual steps can also be outputs if you want to write a brief arpeggio or tonal score, this saves you from having to use up one sequencer per note, though you'll have to delay the output 1 tick to compensate for bypassing the regular instrument output, use AND's so you can still patch playlist positions into the score.