Elektron Musical Instruments

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 08:08:16PM -0000, Roonan wrote:
>    Hi,
>    I was just playing the MM and MD together (so fine!!!!) but i
>    discovered a not so nice thing.
>    On the Md you can unmute with one hand and do something else
>    (playing the MM :-) ) with the other.
>    As you go live you def. want to unmute tracks on both machines at
>    the same time at some point; Not possible at the moment :-(
>    With the MM you have to press function at the same time to unmute.
>    My suggestion is to switch the current way, so:
>    -Pressing the track buttons mutes and unmutes.
>    -To select a track press function + track button.
>    Makes more sense to me as most people use mutes a lot when
>    performing.(on the RS7000 it's also like this and it works fine)

I agree totally.  I become quite a contortionist trying to play the MD
and the MM at once, due to this problem!  I submitted a feature request
but I think your idea might be simpler and more user-friendly than mine.

But in addition, I think they should change the muting to not be
immediate.  I think it would work better if the tracks didn't change
their mute status until you take your finger off the function+track
buttons (or just the track button, if your change is implemented).
This is how the MD works (with the function+track muting option) and
it's quite natural, I think.

Anyway, some sort of change to allow one-handed muting and smoothing
muting is necessary (in my opinion).  Not having them takes away from
the liveness of the instrument.  Which is bad; because to me, the MD and
MM are all about being used live.

Joe