So last part of my thoughts here are some clarity issues I keep running into, and some quality of life improvements.
Some of these are super simple to implement, and I'm sure they're already on some kind of to-do list.
COPYING AND TRAVERSING FX COLUMNS
My suggestion is for the FX columns to be counted as one cell if they're empty or if we're copying.
Currently it doesn't matter if you copy the FX column as well as the value of that FX, or just the FX column, so copying several columns is a lot of extra movement for nothing.
Same thing if a column is empty and we just want to move across it - there's no use traversing two cells when we can't do anything with the value of the FX column.
FX COLUMNS VISIBILITY
This has been a bit of a nuisance for me, and I'm sure it was a struggle in development how to allocate these 4 FX rows and make everything visible.
As it is now, we cannot see FX cols 2,3,4 if we're on FX col 1
I'm suggesting we make a bit of a compromise to give us a bit more of an overview.
Currently the FX row/column looks like this:
FX 1 2 3 4 (1,2,3,4 are spaced a bit odd)
- - - - - - -
What if we use the empty values on the right to signify when another FX column has something in it?
Like so (I'm using _ to denote an empty space):
FX__1 2 3 4
- - - _ - * -
- - - _ - - -
- - - _ - - *
- - - _ - - *
TRG2 0 3 7
So here we are on FX col 1, and we can see there's something on FX column 3 and 4 at the steps where there is an asterisk *
We will not show the other columns if we have something in our row, so if we fill it up there's no change, but it buys us a lot of visibility.
And the same, if something is on FX col 2:
FX__1 2 3 4
- - - - _ * -
- - - - _ - -
- - - - _ - *
- - - - _ - *
- - - * _ - -
So now, when we moved to FX col 2, we can see that TRG2 FX on col 1 as the asterisk. The formatting is a bit rough to do here, but the change would be that an unmarked row
has three '- - -' before a small space before the 4 columns under '1 2 3 4'.
I think this'd be great. I've gotten bitten by FX being on other columns and me not seeing them, and having to go through all the columns (and right now each column is 2 steps) while going up and down searching isn't very fun.
FX Value view
This is one of the luxury improvements I suppose. I really liked the implementation where if we click OK on the FX we get all the FX in a list. It added a lot of clarity.
The values in the FX can do a lot of stuff, so I suggest a small window that pops up to the right as a list if you click OK on the value of the FX you have chosen.
The image below shows both previous suggestions in one image. They also show the below suggested Top/Side visibility, where we light up the current row/column.
Upper part shows where we could show what's hiding in FX column 2.
Lower part shows where the FX values could show up if we clicked OK on the values.
Top/Side Visibility
I suggest a small marker/indicator on the top row and column of where we are. This would make it clearer we are for example on row 6 if we're messing about on the FX columns.
I don't have an image for it, but imagine we are in a matrix - let's always highlight the side value and the top value, and where the row and columns cross is where our value is at.
This is completely stolen from the M8 and it's great.
COPY behavior
1) Very simple, and probably on the way already - allow us to mark/copy/delete just like everywhere else in the automator screen.
2) Allow note values to be copied onto the MOD values in the PATTERN screen (since MOD values can have note values too, it makes perfect sense).
That's all I had. I think some of these are of lesser priority (in previous parts, the ITERATOR for example), but the MARK shortcuts and the DRAG functionality would make this device really fast to use. I understand that there's a lot of advanced development going into i2c, MIDI and other add-ons, but I'd like just the core functionality to be a bit quicker.
Thanks for making a great product, I'd pay to have some of these suggestions implemented (or maybe I could buy a 100$ t-shirt). Either way, keep it up, it's awesome.
Some of these are super simple to implement, and I'm sure they're already on some kind of to-do list.
COPYING AND TRAVERSING FX COLUMNS
My suggestion is for the FX columns to be counted as one cell if they're empty or if we're copying.
Currently it doesn't matter if you copy the FX column as well as the value of that FX, or just the FX column, so copying several columns is a lot of extra movement for nothing.
Same thing if a column is empty and we just want to move across it - there's no use traversing two cells when we can't do anything with the value of the FX column.
FX COLUMNS VISIBILITY
This has been a bit of a nuisance for me, and I'm sure it was a struggle in development how to allocate these 4 FX rows and make everything visible.
As it is now, we cannot see FX cols 2,3,4 if we're on FX col 1
I'm suggesting we make a bit of a compromise to give us a bit more of an overview.
Currently the FX row/column looks like this:
FX 1 2 3 4 (1,2,3,4 are spaced a bit odd)
- - - - - - -
What if we use the empty values on the right to signify when another FX column has something in it?
Like so (I'm using _ to denote an empty space):
FX__1 2 3 4
- - - _ - * -
- - - _ - - -
- - - _ - - *
- - - _ - - *
TRG2 0 3 7
So here we are on FX col 1, and we can see there's something on FX column 3 and 4 at the steps where there is an asterisk *
We will not show the other columns if we have something in our row, so if we fill it up there's no change, but it buys us a lot of visibility.
And the same, if something is on FX col 2:
FX__1 2 3 4
- - - - _ * -
- - - - _ - -
- - - - _ - *
- - - - _ - *
- - - * _ - -
So now, when we moved to FX col 2, we can see that TRG2 FX on col 1 as the asterisk. The formatting is a bit rough to do here, but the change would be that an unmarked row
has three '- - -' before a small space before the 4 columns under '1 2 3 4'.
I think this'd be great. I've gotten bitten by FX being on other columns and me not seeing them, and having to go through all the columns (and right now each column is 2 steps) while going up and down searching isn't very fun.
FX Value view
This is one of the luxury improvements I suppose. I really liked the implementation where if we click OK on the FX we get all the FX in a list. It added a lot of clarity.
The values in the FX can do a lot of stuff, so I suggest a small window that pops up to the right as a list if you click OK on the value of the FX you have chosen.
The image below shows both previous suggestions in one image. They also show the below suggested Top/Side visibility, where we light up the current row/column.
Upper part shows where we could show what's hiding in FX column 2.
Lower part shows where the FX values could show up if we clicked OK on the values.
Top/Side Visibility
I suggest a small marker/indicator on the top row and column of where we are. This would make it clearer we are for example on row 6 if we're messing about on the FX columns.
I don't have an image for it, but imagine we are in a matrix - let's always highlight the side value and the top value, and where the row and columns cross is where our value is at.
This is completely stolen from the M8 and it's great.
COPY behavior
1) Very simple, and probably on the way already - allow us to mark/copy/delete just like everywhere else in the automator screen.
2) Allow note values to be copied onto the MOD values in the PATTERN screen (since MOD values can have note values too, it makes perfect sense).
That's all I had. I think some of these are of lesser priority (in previous parts, the ITERATOR for example), but the MARK shortcuts and the DRAG functionality would make this device really fast to use. I understand that there's a lot of advanced development going into i2c, MIDI and other add-ons, but I'd like just the core functionality to be a bit quicker.
Thanks for making a great product, I'd pay to have some of these suggestions implemented (or maybe I could buy a 100$ t-shirt). Either way, keep it up, it's awesome.