Elektron Musical Instruments

hi,

I'd like members of this list who use Song mode on the
MD regularly to tell me if this idea makes sense to
you and if you would see any benefit in it:

currently in Song mode, there are two different ways
of displaying the inofrmation on the
currently-selected pattern, depending what page you
are in. in the "Edit" page, it displays the pattern
info by "Start Measure" and "Length". when you are on
the main Song page, it displays these same values as
"Start Measure" and "End Measure". to me, this is a
little counter-intuitive. I figured it out after some
trial and error and am ok now that I'm used to it. 

however, my feeling is that it would be appropriate to
use "Start Measure" and "End Measure" parameters for
both pages. this is for two reasons: 1) it would make
it much easier to keep track of what's going on when
jumping between "Edit" and "Playback/Overview" pages
in the Song mode, 2) it opens up to the idea of being
able to set the "Start Measure" higher than the "End
Measure", thus allowing a portion (or all) of the
pattern to be played in reverse order. note: I am not
talking about reversing the envelopes of the drum
sounds here, just reversing the order of the triggers
and any associated parameter locks. I think this would
give the song mode far greater flexibility in terms of
coming up with variations on existing patterns. 

of course, I have no idea how feasilbe #2 is on the
code level... but I would at least like to see some
consistency between the "Edit" and "Playback" pages in
how these parameters are displayed.

I hope I explained that well. 

anyone else agree/disagree with this?

cheers,
kevin

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