Hi everyone,

Loving my One after getting it last week!

May I suggest the addition of a ‘drunk walk’ playback direction as seen on a few other sequencers? It’s one of my favourite parts of the sequencer on the volca modular, a quite musical implementation of randomness. For those who haven’t tried a sequencer with this mode, with each step the sequencer either:

plays the next note as normal (roughly 40% of the time)
repeats the current step (20%)
goes back and plays the last step (20%)
jumps two steps forward (20%).

So your sequence generally keeps advancing forward the majority of the time, but has some fun variations as it wanders back and forth in an unexpected way. (I think the volca modular might randomly tweak the percentages around each time you use it, but not sure how much variance there is there.)

The sequencer keeps track of where it would be if the sequence was running forward as normal, so for a 16 step sequence a pattern would change after 16 steps as normal, no matter what step in the sequence is playing - hopefully this would work in the One paradigm. (To represent it visually, you could have the playhead moving across as normal while the played note lights up, uncoupled from the playhead line?)

It’s referred to as the stochastic playback mode on the volca modular and SQ-64 so you probably wouldn’t want to call it that (with the One already having a stochastic mode), but I’ve seen it referred to as Brownian mode on the Intellijel Metropolis (after Brownian motion, presumably) or walk mode on some Arturia stuff..

I think it’d be a great addition to the other generative elements on the One - keen to hear others’ thoughts!