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Re: top speed - interface questions

2006-03-22 by ringmod45

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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