Analogue-sequencer

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, colinfraser_com wrote:

> One LED above the playlist step keys would be green to indicate the
> current playlist position, the rest would be red to indicate the
> length of the playlist if it were longer than one step.
> The playlist will always start on step 1 (key 9), and a bar of LEDs
> will always show the length. The PLED display can lose the length
> indication and be less cluttered.

sounds great to me... but would making the led amber make more sense? i
think of red and green as full and empty, but maybe i'm the only one. so
to me, amber would mean there's a playlist step here and it is the current
one. i know that it should be obvious that there's a playlist step in a
given location (though it would be less obvious fro the last step), but i
think this is more consistent with standards set elsewehre in the P3...
like adding ties to steps where the gate is active, etc.

> The pattern on the current playlist step would be indicated by red
> on one of the LEDs 1 to 8, and pressing one of the step keys 1 to 8
> alone would select a new pattern for the current step.
> But if you hold one of the playlist step keys (9 - 16) the LEDs
> above 1 - 8 will show the pattern on that playlist step, and the
> keys will allow it to be edited.

*awesome* how would you switch back to playlist edit?

> To alter the length, you would hold the current softkey and press
> the playlist step key for the last step.

length of what, the pattern? i'm also not sure what you mean by "current
softkey."

> Transpose and repeat control would move to the knobs above the new
> playlist step keys, but otherwise operate in the same way, as would
> chg and hold. No need for adv when stopped though - all playlist
> steps would be directly accessible.

makes sense.

> This would leave the PAGE key free to somehow enable selection of
> patterns 9 to 16 in 3 bank mode. Holding PAGE plus a playlist step
> plus a pattern key seems a bit much, so maybe PAGE could toggle an
> indication in the display showing whether 'upper' or 'lower'
> patterns would be selected.

if the display could show "1-8" and "9-16" that would be better...

bleep.
out.

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