this is super interesting! How might you go about inserting silences or rests into a sequin? It seems like this would expand the expressive possibilities significantly. My initial thought is inserting an extremely low value (i.e., to get it under audio rate), but that seems like a crude solution
originally i thought of sequins as only for pitch, then you can sequence the rhythm separately. separating pitch & rhythm is a very 'modular' way of thinking that i've found fruitful. you can of course use a second sequins for controlling the speed of the clock that creates the notes. alternatively, you could insert the string "rest" and then in the code that calls the sequins, use an if-statement to stop from calling the note. another approach would be to use tables of {note, duration} inside the sequins (instead of just numbers), then in your 'play_note' code you use the table contents to control both pitch & clock-sync duration.
this is super interesting! How might you go about inserting silences or rests into a sequin? It seems like this would expand the expressive possibilities significantly. My initial thought is inserting an extremely low value (i.e., to get it under audio rate), but that seems like a crude solution
originally i thought of sequins as only for pitch, then you can sequence the rhythm separately. separating pitch & rhythm is a very 'modular' way of thinking that i've found fruitful. you can of course use a second sequins for controlling the speed of the clock that creates the notes.
alternatively, you could insert the string "rest" and then in the code that calls the sequins, use an if-statement to stop from calling the note. another approach would be to use tables of {note, duration} inside the sequins (instead of just numbers), then in your 'play_note' code you use the table contents to control both pitch & clock-sync duration.