Separating out notes and patterning

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1

I'm a programmer but new to Tidal, exciting stuff. Trying to learn how to wrap my head around the modeling.

I have this nice bit of code that is sort of a melody with a chord progression

d1 
    $ note (scale "minor" "<[0 2 4] [2 4 7] [2 4 7] [0 2 4]>" + (scale "minor" "<0 4 3 3>") + "g3") 
    # s "superpiano"

Now what I'd like to do is to be able to separately encode the pattern of how those trios notes are used, like [0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 2]

I can sort of do this with fit', but what I'm running into is that most of my <> patterns above are lost. There's something I'm not understanding about how the pattern system works and how I can modify it. Help much appreciated!

d1 
    $ fit' 1 3 (run 3) "[0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 2]"
    $ note (scale "minor" "<[0 2 4] [2 4 7] [2 4 7] [0 2 4]>" + (scale "minor" "<0 4 3 3>") + "g3") 
    # s "superpiano"
2

This is ultimately more or less what I wanted to achieve, without some of the nicer shorthand

d1 $ note (scale "minor" "<[0 2 4 7 9 11 0 2 4 7 9 11 0 2 4 0 2 4 4] [2 4 7 9 11 14 2 4 7 9 11 14 2 4 7 7] [2 4 7 9 11 14 2 4 7 9 11 14 2 4 7 7] [0 2 4 7 9 11 0 2 4 7 9 11 0 2 4 0 2 4 4]>" + (scale "minor" "<0 4 3 3>") + "g3") 
    # s "superpiano"

I was hoping to be able to simply define the trios of notes, and separate out the patterning via something like fit'. I did want the nice effect of raising some of them by an octave, I can achieve that by

d1
    $ fast 5.0
    $ (|-| note 12)
    $ every' 2 1 (|+| note 12)
    $ repeatCycles 2
    $ note (scale "minor" "<[0 2 4] [2 4 7] [2 4 7] [0 2 4]>" + (scale "minor" "<0 4 3 3>") + "g3")
    # s "supersaw"

Maybe it's not possible to bring that all together but I appreciate at least learning these different pieces and thinking about how I can use these tools in the future

3 
d1 
    $ bite 3 "0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 2"
    $ note (scale "minor" "<[0 2 4] [2 4 7] [2 4 7] [0 2 4]>" + (scale "minor" "<0 4 3 3>") + "g3") 
    # s "superpiano"

bite works for this, i hear all the right notes, but the pattern is off, all of the notes in the bite pattern don't get equal weight for some reason

4

This is something I've invested some time in ... I haven't played all your patterns yet, but it would be helpful if you could break down what you're looking to do to the simplest possible example(s). Eg maintaining just a simple pattern of notes rather than adding the extra scale and chord variations.

I'm unsure what you mean by "equal weight" here - I can hear all the events are equal length, gain etc