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Hi,

Yesterday I copied, pasted tracks and prolonged patterns extensively. 
Maybe I´m wrong, but these features are not implemented very 
userfriendly:

-  looping patterns by changing the length of tracks means the data 
is not replaced but dubbed over (sorry, my English...) whats already 
in the track. Why  is that??? Who needs it???

- Prolonging a pattern means you can only start from the very 
beginning of the pattern, right? I would love to loop the pattern 
starting from any bar within the pattern.

- while copying and pasting tracks you soon get lost in which 
patterns you are really working on. It can happen quite easily that 
you are pasting your data to the wrong patterns. I wish there would 
be a better control that helps you to be aware of whats going on.

What do you think?

Heinrich

-  looping patterns by changing the length of tracks means the data 
is not replaced but dubbed over (sorry, my English...) whats already 
in the track. Why  is that??? Who needs it???

>>>I already added this to the wishlist last week.  Gotcha covered :) <<<

>- Prolonging a pattern means you can only start from the very
>beginning of the pattern, right? I would love to loop the pattern
>starting from any bar within the pattern.
>

Yikes!  This could be tons of fun!  Great idea, as long as they don't break
anything implementing it.  And imagine if you could do this on the fly ...




>- while copying and pasting tracks you soon get lost in which
>patterns you are really working on. It can happen quite easily that
>you are pasting your data to the wrong patterns. I wish there would
>be a better control that helps you to be aware of whats going on.
>


I imagine the Mark17 release of the hardware, when they finally have a
screen with more than two lines of LCDs, would address this nicely.  (I
remember the same two lines of LCDs from my Emax days ...)
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I added some of this to the wishlist for you, specifically the overdub/copy.

-----Original Message-----
From: heinrich22001 [mailto:hhuent@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 4:57 AM
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [xl7] OS -wishlist - count this in, please!


Hi,

Yesterday I copied, pasted tracks and prolonged patterns extensively.
Maybe I\ufffdm wrong, but these features are not implemented very
userfriendly:

-  looping patterns by changing the length of tracks means the data
is not replaced but dubbed over (sorry, my English...) whats already
in the track. Why  is that??? Who needs it???

- Prolonging a pattern means you can only start from the very
beginning of the pattern, right? I would love to loop the pattern
starting from any bar within the pattern.

- while copying and pasting tracks you soon get lost in which
patterns you are really working on. It can happen quite easily that
you are pasting your data to the wrong patterns. I wish there would
be a better control that helps you to be aware of whats going on.

What do you think?

Heinrich


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I totaly know what you are talking about here.  The copy and paste 
functions are very easy to mess up.  I don't rely have any good ideas 
off the top of my head but if it could be made a little more straight 
forward that would be great.  

Also i have to say that the paste function would be more usefull for 
me if it did take out the old info, or even better just a screen that 
asks you if you want to paste or mix the data that you are pasting 
before actualy applying the paste.  

peace mike

--- In xl7@y..., "heinrich22001" <hhuent@g...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yesterday I copied, pasted tracks and prolonged patterns 
extensively. 
> Maybe I´m wrong, but these features are not implemented very 
> userfriendly:
> 
> -  looping patterns by changing the length of tracks means the data 
> is not replaced but dubbed over (sorry, my English...) whats 
already 

> in the track. Why  is that??? Who needs it???
> 
> - Prolonging a pattern means you can only start from the very 
> beginning of the pattern, right? I would love to loop the pattern 
> starting from any bar within the pattern.
> 
> - while copying and pasting tracks you soon get lost in which 
> patterns you are really working on. It can happen quite easily that 
> you are pasting your data to the wrong patterns. I wish there would 
> be a better control that helps you to be aware of whats going on.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Heinrich