Elektron Musical Instruments

hi folks

i was wondering if anyone has ever discussed with Elektron product team letting users program their own drum synth machines? Not necessarily the whole machine operating system itself, but I was thinking how nice it would be to be able to program a better midi machine for example. Well I guess this post is goign to ask two questions:

a) who can we push to release an API/SDK that would let people program their own "machine" for real, not just a  "kit". anyone reading this from elektron please comment :)

b) what i want from a midi machine is for it to record pitch inputs for each key I play in real time per step. Maybe I'm just missing something but I can't find a way to do this easily. What I do now that sucks is record the note timing for the melody, then do parameter locks for the note value at each step. total crap and unmusical. It should be easier to plug in an external midi keyboard and record a melody into the midi machine 

- michel