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challism
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21 Feb 2020

I know PSQ gets a lot of love from people who understand it, and it remains a mystery to so many others who say they need to learn how to use it. I thought it would be a good idea for us to share our patches and tips in one easy to find topic.

I'll start off with this simple combi patch I made using Robotic Bean's free CV switch. It has all the PSQ sequencer channels routed through the switch and connected to the instrument. It's a quick and easy way to cycle through the different sequencer channels, and play them thru a single instrument. The combi buttons are programmed to turn on/off the different channels. The ID8 instrument is a placeholder, just drag and drop the instrument of your choice to replace it. This combi saves me a lot of time from having to rewire this every time.

I love to use the global random button next to the patch browser to create fast sequences I can go thru and tweak. I hope this helps save you guys some time from having to wire all the sequencer channels.

I look forward to checking out all the interesting patches the ReasonTalk community (hopefully) shares in this thread!

I was just reminded that we also have this thread in the RE forum. viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7507919&hilit=psq+a ... ion+thread

And there is this one in the tutorials forum: viewtopic.php?p=303114#p303118

Contains 2 combis. 1 combi has Tap Player and Scales&Chords as a filter to keep the notes in tune with your song's key.
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22 Feb 2020

I just repost this .
Its the beat division timings when a pulse's division is being is being set by using its own (or a diiferent) sequencer aux value to set its time division. A pulse's time division must be set to 'blank' for these vaules to be accurate and count must be set to 'down'.
If the global reset value is set to 'blank' (instead of defaulf 64) then this pulse must be reset with another pulse a minimum of every two bars to keep the vaules alligned.
PSQ Division Numbers (auxiliary values)
1.6 = 1
2.3 = 2
3.9 = 3
4.7 = 4
5.5 = 5
7 = 6
7.8 = 7
8.6 = 8
9.4 = 9
10.9 = 10
11.7 = 11
12.5 = 12
14.1 - 13
14.8 =14
15.6 = 15
17.2 = 16

Also this is a table i made to pipoint exact sequencer pitches for the psq's quantiser. For this to be accurate the quantiser's range and offset vaules must be at default and all 12 notes in the quantisiser must be ticked (higlighted in white). This can be handy to see exactly what pitces your programming and sending out. Tis handy if you want to change key , you can control the notes your programming manually like a normal sequencer. At default the lowest note in D1 so this table shows values in otctaves of' D' throught the psq (d1 = valire 0, 3.1 =value Eflat 1 etc etc) all the way up to note E4 (the highest note) . I use both these tables as its a massive time saver if your using psq this way.


PSQ Pitch Sequencer Values (PSQ Quantisizer)
D 1

0 = D
3.1 = E Flat
5.5 = E
7.8 = F
10.2 = F Sharp
13.3 = G
15.6 = G Sharp
18 = A
21.1 = B Flat
25 = B
27.3 = C
30.5 = C Sharp

D2

32.8 = D
34.4 = E Flat
36.7 = E
40.6 = F
42.2 = F Sharp
44.5 = G
47.7 = G Sharp
50 = A
52.3 = B Flat
54.7 = B
57.8 = C
60.2 = C Sharp

D3

62.5 = D
65.6 = E Flat
68 = E
71.1 = F
74.2 = F Sharp
76.6 = G
79.7 = G Sharp
82 = A
84.4 = B Flat
87.5 = B
90.6 = C
92.2 = C Sharp

D4

94.5 = D
97.7= E Flat
100 = E

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23 Feb 2020

Excellent info, thank you for reposting it.

Here's a combi with PSQ routed to Kong (it's a lot of wiring so a saved patch can save you some time)
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