Elektron Musical Instruments

hi daniel,
this sounds complicated to me. i wish it would be more fun to do some 
nice changes on the os. however i think it should be no problem to 
find good reasons to update the os. i have read and written a few 
suggestions here along with others. but it would not make me happy 
when my sidstation or elektron loses mind.
cheers ;)
phono  




--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "daniel_elektron" 
<daniel@e...> wrote:
> --- 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