Analogue-sequencer

Hi Colin

Colin f wrote:
>> Sculpt: Why don't I see the sculpt value immediately? Especially for 
>> slow patterns it's hit and miss when I try to set a specified value 
>> (e.g., I only see the current data value once I hit the next step)
> 
> Sculpting is captured at the start of each beat.
> If you pressed the sculpt key just before the start of a beat, then the old
> way, you would sculpt two steps.
> The ideal implementation is probably to have a window for sculpt from half a
> beat before, to half a beat after, so you can easily pick out one step to
> sculpt.

The window method is certainly a good idea. However, my issue is really 
about *visual* feedback. I need to see immediately where my data pot is, 
otherwise it's extremely difficult to hit a certain value. Try the 
following:

I recently tried to add a set of AUX rel notes one octave below the main 
note. The track was running at timebase 4 (global Tempo 66), so rather 
slow. I only knew where my knob was at the start of each step, so it 
took more than one full track length just to adjust the data knob to 
-12. Now I had to keep pressing the sculpt key for another eternity 
until the track actually run through all steps. Of course, I slightly 
moved my left hand, so at some time I started writing -13. The result: I 
had to go through all steps again... In retrospective, it would have 
been faster to use the individual pots instead of sculpt.

If the screen represented the data value at all times, it would have 
taken me one second to get to -12, and there's a good chance I would 
have spotted the change to -13 before it was written.

How about displaying the actual, continuously updated data value in 
brackets somewhere on the screen?

> I didn't start out doing it that way. The transpose knobs in playlist edit
> still have zero in the middle.
> But there isn't enough resolution to add a dead zone and still have the full
> range of values.
> I got fed up hunting for a mid-point zero on bi-polar knobs, and decided
> just to make zero fully anticlockwise.
> I think once you accept that's the way it works, it can make life easier.

Agreed. If the dead-zone can't be implemented, having the 0 at full left 
makes sense.

Bye
Martin