Hi Sean,
thanks for your detailed explanation. While we are at the topic of Flash ROM - what is the reason, that after initialiazing it, without saving anything in a Command Station, only 70% of the memory is available? Even though there are 8 banks for patterns, most likely it would be impossible to fill all of them, even when using one bar long patterns.I'm not complaining by any means - CS is an amazing piece of hardware (I own two, and my collaborator has two as well), and it's aging really well, at least in terms of proving its usefulness after 15 years from its release. It's obvious, that every project like this comes with some trade-offs and quirks. I only hope you won't get tired by our questions, because I'm afraid there would be more.
Actually, I already have another one! Have you considered using the "busy/variation" mechanism for patterns (not only the audition riffs), and if so, why wasn't it implemented?
Thanks in advance for your answers!
Bruno