08-06-2019, 02:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-06-2019, 02:17 PM by Tim Wilson.
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Finally got to try the latest beta and play with the new features. Thank you Daryl and Steve. I'd forgotten about the controller and was underwhelmed at the idea, but having seen the screens I realise that these will in fact be really useful. Likewise the chord sequencer and song mode very much add to the functionality of the instrument and I particularly like the way the chord buttons rather than just the encoders can be used when constructing a sequence. Now that it is nearer complete (and whilst still in beta) I've a few comments and requests.
The sequencing of key and mode in the chord sequencer seems to over complicate affairs. For me this is a setting I want to set globally, so I'd rather not have the key and mode sequencing and stick with the global mode. This is much more useful to try out on the fly, generally set and forget. The present implementation gets in the way of this.
Choosing quantities of 0.5 is a bit of a headache and could be avoided if the quantisation was displayed as 1/8 rather than 1/4.
I'd like a way so that chords could be sequenced so they don't have to start start on the one.
Related to this I'd hoped that chords would be available in modes other than latched on. For instance if a user wanted to sequence chords that played as stabs on the off beat it isn't really possible. I appreciate the NDLR is primarily an uber-arpeggiator and works well for the motifs, it's the implementation of the chord function I'm querying.
I did wonder if the implementation of the chord sequencer might use the rhythm / pattern paradigm of the motif sequencer - presumably the pattern sequencers could be repurposed to define chords rather than notes?
(I've tried using patterns as modulators in the LFO section but couldn't understand what I was doing, this isn't well documented in the manual).
A midi learn for the controller section would be wonderful, as would the ability to live record chord progressions.
The sequencing of key and mode in the chord sequencer seems to over complicate affairs. For me this is a setting I want to set globally, so I'd rather not have the key and mode sequencing and stick with the global mode. This is much more useful to try out on the fly, generally set and forget. The present implementation gets in the way of this.
Choosing quantities of 0.5 is a bit of a headache and could be avoided if the quantisation was displayed as 1/8 rather than 1/4.
I'd like a way so that chords could be sequenced so they don't have to start start on the one.
Related to this I'd hoped that chords would be available in modes other than latched on. For instance if a user wanted to sequence chords that played as stabs on the off beat it isn't really possible. I appreciate the NDLR is primarily an uber-arpeggiator and works well for the motifs, it's the implementation of the chord function I'm querying.
I did wonder if the implementation of the chord sequencer might use the rhythm / pattern paradigm of the motif sequencer - presumably the pattern sequencers could be repurposed to define chords rather than notes?
(I've tried using patterns as modulators in the LFO section but couldn't understand what I was doing, this isn't well documented in the manual).
A midi learn for the controller section would be wonderful, as would the ability to live record chord progressions.