Doepfer

I'm sorry people,I hope you won't be mad at me for posting something about the MAQ16/3 on the A100 group, but I want to use this way to ask Dieter something, since he is very active on this group, and apparently,
no one is looking at the MAQ group any more...Please Dieter, could you make on OS update for the MAQ allowing the display to show the note numbers one is dialing on the fly ? It would be SO usefull, especially live and when using a setting of several octaves. Now, the only way to see the notes you are dialing is in the single step mode.....Please Dieter, it can't be that much work....think about all those MAQ users who rely on you...Best regards to all !!

> I'm sorry people,I hope you won't be mad at me for posting
> something about the MAQ16/3 on the A100 group, but I want to use
> this way to ask Dieter something, since he is very active on this
> group, and apparently,
> no one is looking at the MAQ group any more...Please Dieter,
> could you make on OS update for the MAQ allowing the display to
> show the note numbers one is dialing on the fly ? It would be SO
> usefull, especially live and when using a setting of several
> octaves. Now, the only way to see the notes you are dialing is in
> the single step mode.....Please Dieter, it can't be that much
> work....think about all those MAQ users who rely on you...Best
> regards to all !!

I'm not the man who is responsible for the MAQ software. Please contact
Christian Assall (software@doepfer.de) if you want to suggest a function for
a firmware update. But from my point of view your suggestions does not make
much sense:

1. Which note number should be displayed (there are usually 3 at a time)
2. The display would be very short in a standard sequence (only the fraction
of a second). You would normally see a wild flickering of numbers in the
display and this would not help very much.

Only in the single step mode the note display makes sense from my point of
view. And in this mode it is available.

In any case Christian has to decide if it's possible and meaningful.

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer

Hello

I think Phillipe had the way in mind, that many modern user interfaces 
do work:
The display shows usually some standard information (in this case the 
tempo). As soon as you change a knob, the Display displays the value of 
this knob and keeps this display for some hold time. After that hold 
time the display jumps back to the standard information.

By this hold-time trick the display stays at the value-display until you 
stop changing the knobs position.

Whether it is possible depends on the power of the processor. You have 
to pay attention that asking the hold time counter does not affect your 
timing.

Florian

> I'm not the man who is responsible for the MAQ software. Please contact
> Christian Assall (software@doepfer.de) if you want to suggest a function for
> a firmware update. But from my point of view your suggestions does not make
> much sense:
>
> 1. Which note number should be displayed (there are usually 3 at a time)
> 2. The display would be very short in a standard sequence (only the fraction
> of a second). You would normally see a wild flickering of numbers in the
> display and this would not help very much.
>
> Only in the single step mode the note display makes sense from my point of
> view. And in this mode it is available.
>
> In any case Christian has to decide if it's possible and meaningful.