For each spark component there seems to be a global counter of cycles of patterns.
From my experience the option “zero” of the spark components “reset counter” does not seem to do anything. It does not seem to reset the cycle count for either parameter locks, step components nor trigger components nor does it have any noticable effect on the order of events when chaining patterns.
Can anybody please provide an example of how to properly use the “reset counters” option with spark components? - Or are they dysfunctional?
I think the only case to effectively use it is together with the “jump to random” step component.
In every other case the counter will be reset each loop, meaning nothing will ever change.
When using “jump to random” the “reset counter” will add some more randomness, since it might not be activated each loop but skipped sometimes.
Nice idea … however inserting “reset counter” sparks anywhere does not actually halt or reset the counter, i.e. periodic step/trigger/parameter components continue as if no “rest counter” command was given, at least in my experience.
I see… you are right, there does not seem to be any effect. Just had to check on my own unit.
I also found an early bug-report-video on YouTube stating that the reset counter is not functional. Hm, strange.
I’ve been using the op-z since launch and just today tried to use Reset Counter for the first time.
I’ve got the first half of my track looping 3x with a jump -to-one and trigger sparks on the trigs in the middle to mute on the second pass; on the fourth pass it plays trigs 9-16.
But when it comes back around, those muted trigs are inverted; they mute on 1&3 but play on the second pass.
So I figured a reset counter would fix this.
Apparently not! (Yet)
