another fun mobius script (and another question!)

[Simeon Harris <simeonharris40@googlemail.com>]

it's amazing how one door opening opens another

the subcycle sequence script allowed me to write this script based on the LiveCut plugin (of which i am particularly fond) - it stutters the last beat of the loop

!name livecut stutter

message Chop chop!

# Variable containing 'slice'

Variable global Slicetarget

Variable saveQuantize quantize

variable eighths 8thspercycle

set 8thspercycle 32

# The number of slices will be the number of subcycles times cycles

# so the resulting slice will be equal to one subcycle

Variable slices subCycleCount * cycleCount

  # calculate the slice

  set slicetarget slices - 8

  

# internally subcycles/slices are numbered from 0

# but the Shuffle command wants them numbered from 1

Variable shuffleSlice slicetarget + 1

wait until subcycle slicetarget

Shuffle slices shuffleSlice

wait until subcycle 0

undo

set quantize saveQuantize

set 8thspercycle eighths

what i'd really love to do is this - 

!name livecut stutter drop

message This doesn't work

# Variable containing 'slice'

Variable global Slicetarget

Variable saveQuantize quantize

variable eighths 8thspercycle

set 8thspercycle 32

# The number of slices will be the number of subcycles times cycles

# so the resulting slice will be equal to one subcycle

Variable slices subCycleCount * cycleCount

  # calculate the slice

  set slicetarget slices - 8

  

# internally subcycles/slices are numbered from 0

# but the Shuffle command wants them numbered from 1

Variable shuffleSlice slicetarget + 1

wait until subcycle slicetarget

Shuffle slices shuffleSlice

pitchdown

wait subcycle

pitchdown

wait subcycle

pitchdown

wait subcycle

pitchdown

wait subcycle

pitchdown

wait subcycle

pitchdown

wait subcycle

pitchdown

wait subcycle

pitchdown

wait subcycle

pitchnormal

undo

set quantize saveQuantize

set 8thspercycle eighths

but this doesn't work. it works with rate shifts, but that makes the loop slower for a bit, so it goes out of sync

for some reason, the pitchdowns create a tiny bit of silence at the start, so you just hear nothing as it's sweeps down. jeff - any idea why this might be? 

i tried it with pitchnext and added a pitch sequence to the preset, but that didn't work either

sim