12-14-2021, 06:21 PM
One issue with this is that the motifs don't have bars, and their rhythm and pattern length are completely separated, so there is no really solid way to make it guaranteed to make sense in the way you are discussing. I definitely see the benefit of what you are requesting and it's been requested before, but it just goes against the NDLRs design philosophy.
What the NDLR is at it's core is basically a tool to Noodle with all your gear while you unwind from a hard days of work, it's like the MIDI version of a Miller High Life. And like someone after a few Miller High Lifes, it's a meandering path that the NDLR cuts, and having parts cut in and out (by hand or via CC or Mod Matrix) is a big part of it's identity.
Unfortunately every design decision is a double edged sword, and is guaranteed to polarize a users experience (there are two types of people in the world, those who like it and those who don't). It's hard, because we do want to make people happy, but the reality is that when we do change things from time to time, inevitably we hear from someone else shortly after telling us they wished we had left it the way it was.
So in short, it's not a bad idea, but I'm sorry to say that it's not likely to be something we change at this point in time.
Jesse
What the NDLR is at it's core is basically a tool to Noodle with all your gear while you unwind from a hard days of work, it's like the MIDI version of a Miller High Life. And like someone after a few Miller High Lifes, it's a meandering path that the NDLR cuts, and having parts cut in and out (by hand or via CC or Mod Matrix) is a big part of it's identity.
Unfortunately every design decision is a double edged sword, and is guaranteed to polarize a users experience (there are two types of people in the world, those who like it and those who don't). It's hard, because we do want to make people happy, but the reality is that when we do change things from time to time, inevitably we hear from someone else shortly after telling us they wished we had left it the way it was.
So in short, it's not a bad idea, but I'm sorry to say that it's not likely to be something we change at this point in time.
Jesse