Elektron Musical Instruments

I always thought that electron should take a page from JoMoX and just
add a 'last step' parameter.

on the JoMoX, this let you 'overflow' into the next pattern.  in this
way, each pattern only had 32 steps, but you could go to as many as
128 by setting that parameter.  if you set it to 64, for example, it
would play the 32 steps from pattern 'a1' and then immediately follow
it with pattern 'a2' as an example.

Just a thought.  takes care of the memory issue too:  let the user decide.

Tony


On Nov 13, 2007 11:11 AM, Patrik Rydan Rydberg <rydan@...> wrote:
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> 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.
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> > i don't see elektron shoe-horning something like this into their
> > beautiful and well thought-out interface. but that's just my $.02
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> > 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:
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> > > 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.
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> 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...
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> Just my 2...
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> /Patrik
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