Instant sequence launch or gate mode?

[horisonten]

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to synchronise triggering of sequences instantly when using external gear to control the Blackbox.

All would be solved if I could simply trigger the pads via my Squarp Pyramid. But it seems that the Pyramid does not send a proper Note off (or whatever the Blackbox expects to stop a pad) when using the gate mode for clips. So the playback of the pad is not stopped when I stop the Pyramid. The pad keeps playing until the end.

So I'm trying to use sequences or song mode instead. But the issue is that I can not find a way to trigger a sequence instantly instead of being queued up. And then there is the toggle on/off issue for sequences that results in the sequences also needing a note off to toggle them on/off.

This makes it impossible for me to arrange things so that I do not need to know what I will play next, since currently I need to trigger the playback of pads/sequences at the end of the previous pattern to queue up the pattern that comes after.

Hope I explained it well enough.

[-thus-]

All would be solved if I could simply trigger the pads via my Squarp Pyramid. But it seems that the Pyramid does not send a proper Note off (or whatever the Blackbox expects to stop a pad) when using the gate mode for clips. So the playback of the pad is not stopped when I stop the Pyramid. The pad keeps playing until the end.

Would using Toggle mode for clips solve your issue? I notice that in the factory preset GROOVE CLIP DJ, all the clips are set to toggle rather than gate. Toggling is how clip launching works on other clip-based instruments like the Launchpad or Akai Force.

[horisonten]

Unfortunately it does not work any better. It still requries me to know what pattern I come from or go to, because the need of a separate note to toggle it off
Not sure if the issue is that the Pyramid is actually not stopping when slaved to my Octatrack, only paused, when I press stop on my Octa.
But I still send a Note off message from the Octa when pressing stop.

Do you know what a clip is expecting for it to stop its playback if it is not a Note off?

[Steve]

Send the same MIDI note command to start an stop Clips and sequences. The first starts - the second stops.