Elektron Musical Instruments

That's one of the many ideas I posted about a week ago but no one seemed 
to notice/want to talk about them...  I think it'd be a great idea! What 
other ideas do ppl have?

---Quote from message "MD First Days..." on 9/9/2002---

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Just for clarity these are things the MD doesn't do as of os 1.11


- Levels page
[Function] + [Level dial] click shows page with control of level for
first 8 parts. Turn a dial to change the volume for the sound, clicking
on a dial will mute the part. click [Level dial] again to switch between
first or last 8 parts/sounds.

-Clicking [Level dial] mutes selected sound when in any mode/page
(except levels page as above)

-[Mute - A/E] acts as exit when in the Mute page/mode
A side effect would be you can't change pattern the while in mute
page/mode, because of this it might be nice if it's a global option

-Mutes show fat bars on tracks with content vs thin = no data
As it is right now it's impossible to tell if a part has a sequence.
It'd be nice if you could see which parts have a sequence rather than
relying on memory...

-Sound Select LEDs
It'd be nice if instead of going entirely dark when they are muted if
they went to dimmed 80% or inverted. It's again frustrating to figure
out what sequences are muted.

-Function dial to shift thru kits when in kit mode.
It'd be nice to have a fast way to audition kits with sequences. It's a
bit time consuming to change the kit at present.

-Pitch lock - double click on pitch to change
It would be really nice if you had to do something before you can modify
the pitch of some sounds.  Maybe double clicking the pitch dial would
enable this lock and this mode would be stored with the kit. It's
embarrassing when you're playing live and go to change the decay of the
kick and suddenly realize you're changing the pitch....

-Play position resync
Pressing play (while playing) sends song position pointer reset at end
of bar instead of pause. We were syncing Reason to the MD and to play a
sequenced section in Reason we had to stop and start MIDI Clock.  It
would be nice if there was a global setting that let you choose how play
worked when in play; pause, reset clock at end of bar, reset clock on
press. I'm going on the assumption that resetting clock also changes the
song position pointer...

-Dials
As a note to the Elektron Hardware guy/gal... It seems that the current
batch of dials are molded slightly off center and they wobble as you
turn the dial. This is kinda frustrating considering the price...

And to finish....

-GND/MID Midi Controller machine
Three pages (selected with Synth/FX/Routing button) of 8 CC's each,
on-screen dial shows position/value This would be great for controlling
external software EG: Live/Reason


mizatch wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > you can already do this, just assign a midi machine to each slot.
>  >
>  >
> no i mean so one of themachines exists as 24 midi controllers, not just the
> 8 you can assign now......using the other 8 knobs for selecting the # is a
> bit awkward in its current style
> 
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