Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "michael_tucek" 
<michael.tucek@v...> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:14:08PM +0100, Michael Tucek wrote:
> > >    i simply want to load the pattern of just 1 track from 
another
> > >    patternset...: for live-performance..
> > >    :::
> > >    if  i'm playing patternset e01 i want to load pattern for 
> track 2 from e04..
> > >    ok?
> > >    this is'nt implemented yet, I think...
> >
> > and probably won't be (it isn't in the MD, at least). you can't 
do 
> >that kind of pattern copying on-the-fly. you can, however, cut-
and-> 
> paste the tracks as Roonan suggested (although that's not very 
live, 
> > is it?).
> 
> i know, but it even would not be a copy ->
> it would be just a kind of selective pattern loading ->

This would change the whole concept of the Monomachine. You would 
not be sure which pattern was playing, and there would be confusion 
to what length the pattern would be, either one pattern could be 
truncated or longer. I think we want to keep the simplicity in that 
a pattern is a pattern and is all that will be played at one time.

We took an early design decision on this almost when we started the 
project, and found too many complications for it being worth it.

Daniel