Markov chain sequencer

[Bojack_Coarseman]

Yeah I tried to ask something like that on Reddit the other day. Maybe it's not on the radar for most of the modders since Elektron's sequencer works really well (but it's an old sequencer and lacks new features).

I like your idea of the probability per step. Personally I was thinking more to put it as an alternative version of SONG MODE so then you could choose the probability of going from one TRACK to the other in the single SONG and/or the probability to go from one PATTERN to another.

Sure! It would be even more interesting in Song Mode, but I can't really imagine how you would assign probabilities to individual patterns in a song. There could be quite a lot of them (well theoretically for every single pattern as much probabilities as there would be other patterns) , and having to store probabilities for every possible next pattern in each pattern of the song seems overly complicated, unless you somehow limit the number of possible transitions.
Of course, the more possible directions you could take from the current position/pattern, the more interesting it would become but it could get pretty complicated quite fast. That's why I was thinking of having only 16 possible destinations for each of 16 steps. However, expanding that to 64 or even 128 would be really interesting. The problem is that this would mean storing 128 × 128 possible probability values, and I have no idea how demanding that would be for the memory of those machines.

Yeah it should definetely be limited but even with 8 pattern you could create any sort of mayhem. We wouldn't really need 64 or even 16 for that matter. I was just thinking about pressing SONG mode and it gives a YxZ Markov Matrix (max 8/16) in which you load patterns and select the probability for each transition.