Elektron Musical Instruments

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0000, oldmanfury wrote:
>    That's why I would like elektron to deal with the "exception of
>    polyphony" in the monomachine.  6 polyphonic midi tracks and 6
>    fantastic elektron mono-tracks would be a powerhouse that would
>    entertain me for the 2+ years it would take to develop a dream
>    sequencer.

I agree that this would be a HUGE leap forward for the MnM's
already incredible sequencer.

>    Here's how they could handle MnM midi polyphony:
>    They already let you scroll through notes recorded in a chord, so if
>    they tie an individual note length parameter (in fractional form,
>    _please_) to each note in a chord, that's about it.  If you have two
>    notes start on the same step, you can scroll through them.  If you
>    have notes layered on top of eachother, you can edit each of them on
>    their corresponding starting step.  This wouldn't require a graphical
>    representation - it would work very well with the existing LED's.
>    You could even use the tri-color LED's to show how many notes
>    underlie each note - 0=red, 1=yellow, 2+=green.

there's one other important feature (to me) which you describe a bit
above and I'll clarify: trigging notes while other notes are still
being held. that is, if you trig a note (or a chord) on step one and
then program it (as you describe above) to last eight beats, it would
be nice to be able to make more trigs during those eight beats which
do not generate note-off messages (as they do now). right now, it's
an either/or relationship for note lengths: they last until either
the programmed note length is up OR until you trig another note. to
me, it should only be the former condition and not the latter at all.

but one concern if such a capabiloity is added is telling where your
notes end, right? to this end, the LED's could be used to indicate
whether a note has a note-on message only (red), a note-off message
only (yellow), both note-off and note-on (green) or neither (i.e. a
parameter tweak step) (flashing yellow).

Joe.