Changes to Playlist Edit
2005-04-08 by colinfraser_com
Folks, There's a subtle change in playlist edit in the new build, which I don't think I've mentioned before... If you look at the production P3 front panel, you'll see the PART keys 1 to 8 (step keys 9 to 16) are also now labelled PLAYLIST STEP. In playlist edit mode, the green/amber LED which indicates the current playlist step, and the knobs for transposition and repeats, are now aligned with these keys. If you're using 6 or 12 bank modes, this means that the playlist step indicator never appears on the same LED as the selected pattern number - one of the causes of confusion in playlist edit. I'd like to improve this futher, as I think it's generally agreed playlist edit could be more intuitive. If there were no 3 bank mode (i.e. no need to be able to use all 16 step keys for pattern selection) I could dedicate the PLAYLIST STEP keys to playlist start and end step selection, then setting a playlist length could be much the same as setting a part chain. And maybe FUNC+PLAYLIST STEP could be used to toggle the chg/sync mode of each step, with LED colour indicating the status. Any other suggestions to make life easier in playlist edit would be welcome. Cheers, Colin f