Creating Snapshots - Social Entropy ENGINE User Manual

SNAPSHOTS

CREATING SNAPSHOTS

Initially all snapshot locations are empty. By default, an empty snapshot points to the
pattern of the same number in all tracks, for example, snapshot 2 points to pattern 2 in all
8 tracks.
There are two ways to create a new snapshot, depending on how you like to work. To
simplify terminology we will call these methods SNAPSHOT RECORD and SNAPSHOT
PASTE.
In the SNAPSHOT RECORD method, you set up selected patterns and pattern chains for
each track, set MIDI effects, track mutes, synth pattern transpose and drum pattern
instrument mutes. This setup is then recorded to a new snapshot location. Because
snapshots point to pattern locations (without actually storing pattern data) any changes to
a pattern used by multiple snapshots will be heard in all snapshots that use that pattern.
This is useful when you want to make a change to a pattern once and have that change
applied throughout a song.
In the SNAPSHOT PASTE method, you set up track mutes, MIDI effects, and pattern
programming. Instead of recording this as a new snapshot with pointers to the same
patterns, you can paste the current settings into a new snapshot location and at the same
time copy the actual pattern data into new pattern locations which will be used by the
new snapshot. This is useful when you wish to create unique variations of patterns that do
no get applied throughout a song.
Both methods are covered in more detail in the following sections.
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