Help! - automating patterns in Reason

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So I'm generally new to Reason. I programmed a bunch of patterns in bank A1,
A2, A3 and so on and I would like to be able to play for example A1 for 8
measures, then 1 measure of A2, then back to A1 for 8 measures, then A3 for
2 measures.....you get the idea. So I thought I had finally figured it out
when I clicked on the little "Show Pattern Lane" button and I could just
write in the patterns I wanted it to play for each bar using the pencil
tool. But once I got my "automation" programmed and pressed the "Play"
button on the transport bar (not the "run" button in redrum), it would only
loop whatever pattern I had selected in ReDrum. It would play A1 until I
clicked on A2 and totally ignore my "pattern lane" automation. I tried "copy
pattern to file" and even tried hitting the record button and manually
selecting the pattern which I wanted it to play (this did nothing at all).
Can somebody shed a little light? Thanks a billion!!!

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Jonny Durango

"Patrick was a saint. I ain't."

http://www.jdurango.com

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nope that doesn't do it....been messing around with it all day and still
haven't figured it out, bleh!

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Jonny Durango

"Patrick was a saint. I ain't."

http://www.jdurango.com



"John Payne" <jpayne@berrypr.com> wrote in message
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> "Jonny Durango" <jonnybush_from_officedurango1@comcast.net> wrote in
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> > So I'm generally new to Reason. I programmed a bunch of patterns in bank
A1,
> > A2, A3 and so on and I would like to be able to play for example A1 for
8
> > measures, then 1 measure of A2, then back to A1 for 8 measures, then A3
for
> > 2 measures.....you get the idea. So I thought I had finally figured it
out
> > when I clicked on the little "Show Pattern Lane" button and I could just
> > write in the patterns I wanted it to play for each bar using the pencil
> > tool. But once I got my "automation" programmed and pressed the "Play"
> > button on the transport bar (not the "run" button in redrum), it would
only
> > loop whatever pattern I had selected in ReDrum. It would play A1 until I
> > clicked on A2 and totally ignore my "pattern lane" automation. I tried
"copy
> > pattern to file" and even tried hitting the record button and manually
> > selecting the pattern which I wanted it to play (this did nothing at
all).
> > Can somebody shed a little light? Thanks a billion!!!
>
> Ok, so I am not too familiar with pattern bamks but two things come to
> mind with redrum. 1.try copying each pattern to track in the order you
> want(which I think you said you tried?) then 2.make sure that the play
> pattern switch(i'm not sure of the exact name) is turned off in the
> redrum interface. It is a little red indicator light that keeps the
> sequencer from playing properly because it will only play back the
> pattern currently in redrum.Hope that helps