Monomachine Bug, Feature Requests, Etc
2006-12-19 by Niall Munnelly
I've already sent this to support, but would appreciate it if a list member would corroborate... Please load the attached .syx, focus on track one, and activate poly mode. 1. I have recorded a chord in the lowest octaves on step 1. 2. I created a trigless trig in the highest octaves on step nine. This sometimes behaves differently, but never as expected. Nine times or so out of ten, the first step plays the three-note chord I input AND notes many octaves above it from step nine! This is a repeatable behavior. It also appears that step nine only plays one note, rather than the chord. If you load and play back the .syx, you'll hear and see what I mean. The LEDs on the SFX-6 give useful visual feedback. This may be my imagination, but the trigless trig on step nine doesn't sound like a trigless trig. It sounds like there's an amp trigm which is unexpected. Occasionally, it doesn't play back chords at all - just single notes. Less occasionally, it plays back no sounds at all! I have to double-stop, reload the pattern, etc to make it play back the chords, but they're never what I entered on the step. Here are some feature requests - they're not really bells and whistles so much as really useful, and I hope that if we ask for them enough, someone will get around to considering them... 1. Adding a two or three second "live" status to the A-H banks, as found on the Machinedrum. I really got spoiled by this, being able to select on a bank+pattern with one hand. You often have to use two hands with the Monomachine, because the bank keys are only momentary. 2. A faster way to navigate through pages, especially kits. Right now, only up and down work. Using the left and right arrow keys to jump up and down a full page would be a boon for the Mono and the Machinedrum, too. 3. A record overdub mode, which would be very useful in polyphonic playback. In mono mode, the sequencer could still favor the first note struck, but you wouldn't be forced to enter a chord every time you wanted one. This would be ideal for creating harmonies and such in polyphonic playback. These are pretty basic requests, and almost feel like omissions, now. -- Yours, Niall. .. . . . . . . . . . Aleph-Null. A Simple Insinuation Around Silence. http://aleph-null.net .. .. gpg public key - http://www.aleph-null.net/niall.gpg .. .. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Yours, Niall. .. . . . . . . . . . Aleph-Null. A Simple Insinuation Around Silence. http://aleph-null.net .. .. gpg public key - http://www.aleph-null.net/niall.gpg .. ..