Elektron Musical Instruments

Joseph Melnyk wrote:
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> 
> where's the memory for this to come from? you immediately just
> halved the number of patterns you can store.
> 
> i don't see elektron shoe-horning something like this into their
> beautiful and well thought-out interface. but that's just my $.02
> 
> On Nov 13, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Tarekith wrote:
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>  > You can use blinking LEDs to get around the 2 bar limit:
>  >
>  > Bar 1 - LED 1 solid
>  > Bar 2 - LED 2 blinks (in time with tempo?)
>  > Bar 3 - LED 1 blinks
>  > Bar 4 - LED 2 solid
> 
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Well, another option is to use led 1 & 2 to represent pattern 1&2, and 
then have the 1/16-led lit and 1 & 2 representing 3 & 4 respectively.

About the memory, well, I'd take 64 patterns with 64 steps over 128 
patterns with 32 steps. However, why not make it user selectable, like a 
global setting. You could just chain say pattenr A1 and E1, A2 and E2 
and so on, so in 64-pattern mode you can only access bank A-D. Pattern 
A1 has 64 steps, and the 32 last of those are stored (physically so to 
speak) in the E1 pattern (although you reach it using the page select 
button, and it behaves like a 64 step pattern). Pattern A2 is linked to 
E2 and so on. If you then change to 32 step patterns, hey presto, banks 
E-H are selectable again, and containing the second halves of your 64 
step patterns...

Just my 2...

/Patrik