Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "bachypham" <bachypham@y...> 
wrote:
> have a function that triggers a root midi note to play a patch when 
> you press the # and * keys at the same time- pressing them both at 
> the same time again can turn it off.  That way I can lay in bed 
> before I go to sleep with only my sidstation and create and 
audition 
> patches.  This one seemingly simple function would entirely improve 
> the ergonomics of this piece for the better. 

Unfortunately the key scanning hardware doesn't allow more than one 
key to be read at a time.

Also, updating the SID-OS is nothing that could be done in an 
afternoon, and should be considered only if we'd get some major 
improvements. First I'd need to get into my old heavily optimated 8-
bit source code, do the changes, and make it pretty likely that I 
don't introduce any new bugs. That's more the common rule though, 
especially if I'd dig into the inner depths. 

Then when a new OS is released we'd get a hell with people running 
into problems with the upgrades. It seems as the SYSEX support in the 
MIDI drivers have detoriated over the years, we can see that with 
more people running into problems upgrading their Machinedrums over 
time. With the Machinedrum you always keep the latest successfully 
updated OS in memory, but the SidStation doesn't have the memory for 
this, so if you fail you'd be left with a dead unit and curse those 
damn Elektrons while paying the postage to and from Sweden. Sure, 
there is also the "emergency upgrade mode" that should be activated 
if the upgrade fails, but still the SYSEX upgrade of the SidStation 
is a delicate process that better not fail.

What I'm saying is that we'd better have a very good reason for 
getting everyone to upgrade. 

Daniel