Another option would be to have more chaining slots, where the ones to the right are checked first. (I don't know how you managed the counter for I can't read/write code, I just program a bit in MaxMSP. You could set up this behaviour with a counter…
This would be incredibly useful. I often get stuck because I think in 2
bar patterns with minimal variation between the two. Seems to me like
I'm wasting patterns for just a snare on the last 16th. With just 8
different patters the room for (cont…