02-08-2025, 07:56 PM
The Drone part can do octave root and fifth as one of it's settings. Less options on the rhythms but it's pretty straight forward to set up.
With regards to the Motif part, it doesn't dictate that the Root is always the 0 step, rather that the 0 step changes with the position setting, rotating in lower notes and rotating out higher notes as you move to the left (CCW) and vice versa when doing the opposite. It sounds like your position is just in need of an adjustment to hit those notes correctly.
We wanted the pattern programmer to be a page you can edit in real time while it is playing, so in that sense it does offer audio feedback. If you run the device and then enter the menu it will allow you to hear the notes as the sequencer cycles through them and make changes as it's playing.
If you want to update the firmware, you should. It's not likely to cause any problems, and what problems are possible, are all easily resolved. We have only ever seen one unit get bricked, and that was from a bad USB port. Just make sure that you download the code for the correct hardware version or you'll have to download it agian.
Cheers,
Jesse
With regards to the Motif part, it doesn't dictate that the Root is always the 0 step, rather that the 0 step changes with the position setting, rotating in lower notes and rotating out higher notes as you move to the left (CCW) and vice versa when doing the opposite. It sounds like your position is just in need of an adjustment to hit those notes correctly.
We wanted the pattern programmer to be a page you can edit in real time while it is playing, so in that sense it does offer audio feedback. If you run the device and then enter the menu it will allow you to hear the notes as the sequencer cycles through them and make changes as it's playing.
If you want to update the firmware, you should. It's not likely to cause any problems, and what problems are possible, are all easily resolved. We have only ever seen one unit get bricked, and that was from a bad USB port. Just make sure that you download the code for the correct hardware version or you'll have to download it agian.
Cheers,
Jesse