Elektron Musical Instruments

My wish for this was inspired by my use of the Next Loop copy function 
on the Echoplex Digital Pro.

I respect your call for me to think about user interface since a 
feature without a viable user interface isn't a feature.

So, how about:

	Hold down bank key.
	Press stop/paste.
	Press key for destination pattern.

A slightly less versatile approach that does the duplication at copy 
time would be:

	Hold down the function key.
	Press record/copy.
	Press the destination pattern for a duplicate.

This would insist on staying within the same bank of patterns and would 
move the duplication to the copy operation.

Either would work for me.

I'm new enough to the Machinedrum that I'm probably missing something 
that these sequences should be allowing, but a quick test didn't seem 
to indicate functionality that would be severely inhibited by such a 
change, In either case, it would be nice at the duplicate step to show 
which patterns already have data. In the first case, this is actually 
already being done since the paste would just be a shortcut on the 
front of pattern selection.

Mark

On Apr 4, 2005, at 4:33 PM, daniel_elektron wrote:

>
> [pasting a pattern to another before switching to it]
>
> ...and since you have such a clear idea what you expect from your
> instrument after spending all your money on it, maybe you have a
> clear idea how it would be implemented in a intuitive way into the
> Machinedrum interface?
>
> It's sometimes very interesting to read how some users find specific
> features obvious and essential.
>
> Daniel