"We made The NDLR for jamming, and not really focussed on composing for musicians."
This device is really cool and different, but its not a competitor to traditional sequencers. As a "sequenced arpeggiator" you can make patterns for the arps. If you want to compose a tune, that plays specific notes like a sequencer does, its not great for that. Use a sequencer for sequencing, not an arpeggiator kind of thing. We made it because we wanted to come home and jam without having to compose. As Ziv of Loopop said, unlike a traditional sequencer where you express an idea and put in the notes, with The NDLR, you create an idea and The NDLR takes care of the notes. (something like that).
However, as you mentioned you can certainly record the output to your DAW. Or maybe the "accompaniment" doesn't have to play specific notes as longs as its in-key. There are lots of ways to play music, in many different settings, and not every instrument is tuned to every kind of performance, but creative people tend to figure out how to make it work.
Since we started shipping The NDLR, we've been listening to feedback from musicians using it in all kinds of interesting scenarios. And we've made changes and added features that make The NDLR even more friendly outside of our original "jamming" scope. For instance, we just released a beta FW that prevents arp patterns made in Chromatic or Scale mode from being transposed with chord changes. With a "static" arp pattern, we are getting close to a more traditional sequencer, but you still don't pick the notes directly. Instead, you create the "note pool" we play from when you select Key and Mode.
The last big feature on our to-do list is the Chord Sequencer. Once this is in place (probably a couple of months from now) The NDLR will be much more of a composing device than it currently is.
This device is really cool and different, but its not a competitor to traditional sequencers. As a "sequenced arpeggiator" you can make patterns for the arps. If you want to compose a tune, that plays specific notes like a sequencer does, its not great for that. Use a sequencer for sequencing, not an arpeggiator kind of thing. We made it because we wanted to come home and jam without having to compose. As Ziv of Loopop said, unlike a traditional sequencer where you express an idea and put in the notes, with The NDLR, you create an idea and The NDLR takes care of the notes. (something like that).
However, as you mentioned you can certainly record the output to your DAW. Or maybe the "accompaniment" doesn't have to play specific notes as longs as its in-key. There are lots of ways to play music, in many different settings, and not every instrument is tuned to every kind of performance, but creative people tend to figure out how to make it work.
Since we started shipping The NDLR, we've been listening to feedback from musicians using it in all kinds of interesting scenarios. And we've made changes and added features that make The NDLR even more friendly outside of our original "jamming" scope. For instance, we just released a beta FW that prevents arp patterns made in Chromatic or Scale mode from being transposed with chord changes. With a "static" arp pattern, we are getting close to a more traditional sequencer, but you still don't pick the notes directly. Instead, you create the "note pool" we play from when you select Key and Mode.
The last big feature on our to-do list is the Chord Sequencer. Once this is in place (probably a couple of months from now) The NDLR will be much more of a composing device than it currently is.