Elektron Musical Instruments

> yeah sarcasm is fine. But just don't try to convince us that this 
> would be dificult to implement. All it took was to assign a specific
> midi channel for the kbd input in the global menu. This would take 
> what? 2, 3 days for you prog wizes?

I'd like to point out that you most likely know (a) nothing about the OS 
or hardware implementation, (b) nothing about the timing constraints 
created by subordinate chips, the display, the user interface, (c) 
nothing about the electromagnetic/noise conditions going on inside the 
chassis. The "all it takes" you describe is barely even what the screen 
would have to show, much less all the stuff that has to be managed in 
the background in the context of the flat-out amazing shizz that is 
already going on under the hood.

If Elektron did anything in "2 or 3 days" I think one would have to 
question their sense of engineering. Elektron already manages to put out 
fixes and new features out rather quickly in spite of the fact that some 
users then turn around bite the hand that feeds them. Not a very 
enviable position, no, not at all.

 > I think the user base should continue to gather the same respect from
 > you guys now that you're part of "the big club".

By respect do you mean more free new features that were never part of 
the deal, and are practically charity given to us by Elektron? If what 
has already been done in the relatively short history of the company 
isn't respect, I'm not sure what is. I'm mean fsk, I've never seen 
Clavia, Access, Yamaha, Korg, et al developers or principles on any of 
THEIR lists and some of their gear is substantially more expensive...

> Why not admit that this is based 
> on marketing schemes since the MM already offers this feature. I 
> think we're big enough to handle it...

You jump to some amazing conclusions considering you have about 1% of 
the facts.

Mark