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Basicaly whats happening is im trying to make a looped bassline go longer then 16 bars, and it wont let me draw it in longer then 16 on the playlist. My drum beat loop is 8 bars, and my piano loop is 16 bars, which fits perfectly, but i need my bassline to be as long as my drum loop x4 which is 32. Any time i try recording a bassline longer then 16, even if i select 32 in the top left hand corner of the step sequencer, it just resets at 16 when im in the piano roll and starts recording over itself. Can someone please help me, and tell me how i can record a bassline that loops after 32 bars, and if its possible to draw it into the playlist at 32 bars????

i have this problem too. i dont know how to make the sequencer show 32 bars, it seems that it maxs out at 16...

however...

what i do to overcome this is simply make two 16 bar patterns and play them back to back. there will be a little click in between patters if you have the same note on the last beat of the first pattern and the first beat of the second pattern.

i know this doesnt really answer your question though. sorry.

good to know im not the only one having this problem. and yea i thought about just making 2 seperate patterns of the exact same thing, but like you said it didnt loop perfectly... surely there must be a way to record a looping bassline for longer then 16 bars.

drop the pattern into the automation clips area and stretch it by hand that might do the trick and allow you to play through

Is that picture really necessary?? It just makes the thread annoying to read when he has a genuine question.....

Lojik wrote:Is that picture really necessary?? It just makes the thread annoying to read when he has a genuine question.....

what he said ^

2x16=32

I have offered the FL staff this little tidbit as a product suggestion, but they dont seem to want to ride that train. I make 2 different patterns if I want to cover an area that is twice as long as the project setting, then have to set all automations to "initialize at this position" at the beginning of the second pattern so they will coincide with where they left off in the first pattern.

It is definately ALOT more work then if you just had the ability to crank out a 2x pattern in a project, or be able to set pattern sizes individually without limitations.

Another possible work around might be to write it as 2 patterns, render it out, import the rendered file as a sample and trigger it every 32. This may or may not work depending on the type of workflow you have, what you intend to do with the sound, and automations -etc. -Or it may create more work for you than it circumvented.

-Q

nowaysj wrote:Its a thread killer.

why is it that 99 percent of your posts are you being an asshole and not helping anyone? why even post?

to the others who offered advice thank you, i will try and test everything here.

why do u have to be an asshole in any of your posts? im pretty sure this is a dubstep production forum, not a lets practise being assholes and unhelpful towards others forum

i dont know -- i guess its a crack in the ground, however i fail to see what you are implying with it. care to enlighten me?

Ckzdub wrote:

Ckzdub wrote:

Ckzdub wrote: i fail to see what you are implying with it. care to enlighten me?

He is saying the OP is using a cracked version of FL.

I can seem to play 32 bar loops in my sequencer.... I think.