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korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Michael Hawkins <korgpolyex800@...> wrote:
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> Or am I adding features that will just never be used?
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no I think you're developing a user interface that hardware manufacturers don't have the time to develop. Usually they don't pay much attention to usability, the idea being that the user can eventually get used to it no matter how cumbersome it is. There are very few products developed by someone who actually uses them. The fact that you use the product means that every feature you impliment is going to be something you figure you'd like to use, so even if people who buy the kit don't use all the features immediately, they'll be there to use when they finally realize how useful they'd be.
One thing I'm wondering, will it be possible to assign the various sequencer memories to keys, so that you could press a key on the keyboard and it would start playing the sequence assigned to that key, and then you could press another key and I guess either have the previous sequence cut off or get mixed with the new one? Or how about this, what if each sequence could be mapped time-wise across the entire keyboard, so that if you pressed middle-C it would start playback from the middle of the sequence, and if you pressed the lowest key on the keyboard it would start from the beginning of the sequence, and so you could remix the sequence on the fly with instant access to any part of it. Maybe it could even be used to make editing the sequence easier... hmm, how about an edit mode where the white keys are notes and the black keys are sequence steps.. so you could press a black key to get to the note you want to edit, then press a white key to enter the note you want for that sequence step.
Oh well, just some weird ideas from the peanut gallery...