Quotile
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Getting Started
Using Quotile
Getting Started
Using Quotile
The playback sequencers
The pattern archives
The command line interface
Scripting
Advanced
The pattern archives
The command line interface
Scripting
Advanced
Creating your own commands
Mapping rows to commands
Using Open Source Control
Controlling a Kaoss Pad
Mapping rows to commands
Using Open Source Control
Controlling a Kaoss Pad
Quotile requires some configuration before you can get started.
Quotile has no built in sounds. It was built to send MIDI note information to external gear, such as a MIDI capable drum machine.
If you don't have any external MIDI gear, Quotile can talk to software synths using OSC (Open Sound Control) messages -- although that's an advanced topic.
Alternatively, you may wish try using a MIDI loopback device.
The first thing you need to do is tell Quotile about your MIDI devices. When Quotile is run, it scans your system for all available MIDI devices. To view a list of the devices, type devices on the command line interface and hit enter.
You should see something like this:
To set your preferred MIDI output device, you'll use the device command. Syntax for the device command is:
device [sequencer] [device-number] [channel-number]
If your MIDI device is on channel 1 of device 3, you would type:
device p6 3 1
Each sequencer (p1 through p6) may be tied to a different MIDI device. You need to set each device separately for each sequencer. The MIDI output device(s) must be set every time that Quotile starts. You can either do this by hand, or you can put the device command in a special script called autorun.txt. We'll talk about scripts and autorun.txt later in this documentation.
If you have too many MIDI devices and they scroll off of Quotile's screen, fear not! Every time Quotile is run, it creates the file /Data/output_devices.txt which will contain your entire MIDI device list.
The first thing you need to do is tell Quotile about your MIDI devices. When Quotile is run, it scans your system for all available MIDI devices. To view a list of the devices, type devices on the command line interface and hit enter.
You should see something like this:
To set your preferred MIDI output device, you'll use the device command. Syntax for the device command is:
device [sequencer] [device-number] [channel-number]
If your MIDI device is on channel 1 of device 3, you would type:
device p6 3 1
Each sequencer (p1 through p6) may be tied to a different MIDI device. You need to set each device separately for each sequencer. The MIDI output device(s) must be set every time that Quotile starts. You can either do this by hand, or you can put the device command in a special script called autorun.txt. We'll talk about scripts and autorun.txt later in this documentation.
If you have too many MIDI devices and they scroll off of Quotile's screen, fear not! Every time Quotile is run, it creates the file /Data/output_devices.txt which will contain your entire MIDI device list.