Elektron Musical Instruments

This one is also reported to Elektron as feature suggestion.

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "tahvenaine2002" 
<tahvenaine@c...> wrote:
> 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.