Any advice for working with regular patterns?

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I use Tracktion alot, mostly because I love the freedom to switch between time sigs and tempos. In that sense, it's very open-ended, with no sort of rigid pattern working that is intended with packages like FLS, Orion etc. (and I love those 2 for pattern work, this isn't a better than worse than statement! ).

However, I'd like to do more pattern-based work (in particular, things like drums etc.) from inside tracktion. But I find it kind of awkward, given that you can't 'ghost' clips, so if make your drum loop or pattern in a clip and paste multiple copies, any changes mean you have to delete them all but one and copy them out again.

Is this where MIDI tools and step-sequencers come in? I kinda miss not seeing all the MIDI data on the timeline (as it's all happening in the step-sequencer VST). But it might be faster?

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I just realised I can do this with energyXT by simply sticking in a MIDI Part and setting each pattern to a different MIDI input key...

Ah well, that should make things simpler, and I'll be able to see which pattern is being played (one long note for each pattern) in Tracktion's timeline.