Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi to all,
I've been thinking about this midisequencer. In this way way it is 
implemented now it is quite difficult to do chords. At least I find 
my self pressing too many buttons at the same time. It could be 
better if it would be done like this:

you enter the polyphonic midiseq and in the lcd it it shows this.
you start programming chords with seq. You put the first note on it's 
place. Then you hit arrow down and and you get another clean 16 
buttons. Now you may ask where is the note I entered? It shows on lcd 
something like this:

  1: .....IxxxO...... F#2
  2: Active

Now you will see that in this measure there is a seq-layer (16 
buttons) above this new layer and there is a Note-on (I) and Note-off 
(O) for F#2
So you hit another note here and after that you hit the down arrow 
again. Now this is what you see on the lcd:

  1: .....IxxxO...... F#2
  2: .......IxxxxO... G#2
  3: Active

So this way you continue doing and if there is a reason to go and 
change that G#2 note you push up arrow and it shows you:

  1: .....IxxxO...... F#2
  2: Active
  3: ..........IxxxO. C-3


Now you can do polyphonic chords with any note on/off combinations. 
If you had MnM playing while doing this you had seen that leds above 
keyboard still shows every note on this pattern (so I mean all of 
them F#2, G#2 and C-3). So there you can see the overall picture of 
what is going on. Note also that there would always be layers as 
there would be notes, so that if you have 4 notes you would have 4 
layers and if you only had 3 notes then you would have 3 layers. And 
maybe there should be some maximum of layers like 8.

On the other hand you could use record and play the notes straight to 
MnM (which is better way off course). The it would happen like this: 
You hit the record and hit some chords. Note data will be recorded 
but so that every note goes to new layer. So when you hit stop it 
could look something like this (I've illustrated 2 measures here):

1: .....IxxxO...... F#2   .....IxxxO...... E#2
2: .....Ixxxxxxxxxx C-4   xxxxxxxO........
3: IxxxxxxxxxxxxxxO D-3   ................
4: Active                 Active

So here you can see that there can be also more than one note on on 
layer (layer 1. Notes F#2 and E#2). But not so that anyother could 
stop the other.

Ok, this could be ok system to handdle polyphonic data on MnM seq. At 
least I think so. Of course there is technical things, but I'm now 
aware of them. It's fairly hard to write these kind of thing in 
english, if don't have a skill for english. I hope everyone 
understands this and react to this (what do you think of it?).

Toni.