Hi Colin, I am about to recieve my P3 kit. I planning the front panel design right now. I was wondering how far along you are with the PAGE & stepkey interface, so I can design the panel with the proper lettering for the P3. Many thanks, RM > > Something I thought of a while back but only just got round to implementing > is to provide quicker menu access using PAGE in combination with the step > keys. At the moment this just applies to pattern edit, but I can extend it > to play mode if it proves popular. > v3.1.006b40 is in Yahoo files now. > > In pattern edit there are 8 softkey pages. PAGE cycles through 4 of these, > and FUNC+PAGE toggles this selection to the other 4. > For direct access, if you press a step key from 1 to 8 while *holding* the > PAGE key, it will jump immediately to that page. > > So if you want to access 'Acc Conf' from the tbase page, rather than > pressing FUNC+PAGE, PAGE, PAGE, PAGE, you would press PAGE+8. > I've been playing this for a while, and I'm tempted to lose the old method > altogether. > To select a new page in the old method, you have to know both where you are, > and where you are going. > The number of key presses required varies depending on these two factors. > With the direct access, you are always right there with a two-key press. > A label along the front of the step keys, with > "EDIT PAGE: tbase / direction / cut&paste / shift / rnd note / rnd upper / > sculpt / config" > would probably help the unfamiliar find their way around too. > Let me know what you think... > > Best regards, > Colin Fraser > Sequentix Music Systems Ltd > http://www.sequentix.com >
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Re: top speed - interface questions
2006-03-22 by ringmod45
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