Elektron Musical Instruments

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:05:47PM -0000, tahvenaine2002 wrote:
>    And at the same time I must mention that MD could use this also. Now
>    it's not done very usefull and sacrifices too many knobs. If it would
>    be done like MnM we would have a lot more cc's available more handy.
>    So I think MnM even now (only four, could be increased!) has better
>    cc's than MD (no hassle with cc-chooser knob).

I think it would be great if they changed this a bit in the new MD OS.
Here's my idea: since all of the CC destinations and values are
controllable by parameter locks, one can actually change both of them on
a given step(s); this provides a very large breadth of options.  But
it's tedious to program the CC destination and value for every singe CC
and every single step.

It would be nice if these could be recorded in realtime.  That is, run
the MIDI out of the device being controlled (e.g. a synth) into the MD
and set the MD into realtime record mode. Now tweak parameters on the
external device and have the MD record both the CC destination and value
of what you've tweaked on the external device.  This is common amongst
dedicated sequencers (both hard and soft).

Now, there are some issues here.  For example, the MD has to know which
CC to assign the destination/value pair to.  It would also have to be
configured to listen on the specific MIDI port (relative to that MID
machine). There might even be conflicts with recording incoming MIDI
data. Etc, etc, etc, ..... I hope Daniel can give us some insight into
whether or not such functionality is possible.

Joe