Elektron Musical Instruments

Greetings,

One thing I would love to see, which would be easy to implement, is 
a "record joystick to locks" mode.  You could put this on a fifth 
page under Kit-->Assign.  In this mode, you could record any joystick 
motions, _except_ for pitch modulation.  Historically, pitch-mod has 
always been a signed 14-bit entity while CC's are 8 bit.  They have 
always been treated as separate beasts, so no need to treat them the 
same as far as locks go.  Switching to "record locks" could either 
disable pitch-mod, or just re-map it to a modified 8-bit "tune" 
lock.  If it is too difficult, you wouldn't need to include multi-
octave pitch shifting in this mode.  Plus, dropping the bottom 6 bits 
off the bottom of the pitch mod is easy to code.  Having pitch-shift 
available in "performance mode" would be the default setting, and all 
presets could be written in this mode (since they are being written 
right now?).  This additional mode would not require changing the 
lock data structure.

Being able to record parameter locks (minus pitch shift) with the 
joystick would be _extremely_ useful.  I seldom, if ever use pitch-
shift anyway - I'm not a guitarist, and I don't need no freekin 
whammy bar on my synth!  Having "performance mode" and "lock record" 
mode choices wouldn't be hard at all.  I'm sure that the first review 
printed about the MnM will criticize its inability to record the 
joystick... why not bypass this criticism from the beginning?  If I 
knew I couldn't record locks from the joystick I might have waited 
for a mythical rack version... it was a huge (misguided) selling 
point.

Another encoder-related recommendation. For 1-bit on/off parameters - 
why not check the sign of the encoder value change instead of using 
(it seems) an 8 bit value split in the middle?  Having to rotate the 
encoder a long way to go from on to off is a little irritating.

My encoders "jump" periodically - that is, they do not always 
increase monotonically while I rotate it in one direction.  Turn each 
knob far enough, and they all exhibit this behavior.  This is easy to 
see in testmode, but also is noticable (intermittently) when editing 
synth parameters. Is this typical?  

-gerald