As a user it is difficult to recall / remember what Patterns may feature which Instruments in their sequence.
For example, if the user does a lot of work with sound design and layering, they may want to be mindful of the Instrument slots available and render multiple Instruments into a single file, to be sliced and re-sequenced using a single Instrument slot.
In this case the user may find it difficult to locate which Patterns feature the Instruments that need to be re-sequenced on a new Pattern for Rendering and re-sequencing on the original Patterns.
What should this feature achieve?
A screen - probably pretty simple in UI terms, that shows the Instrument searched for and the Patterns that Note triggers were located.
I think it would ideally be able to search across all Patterns. Just to make sure the user can get all of the Parterns where there Instrument is triggered.
But a Song Mode filter could be useful to constrain the results to what could be the most useful information.
Yeah, now that i understand what you are trying to accomplish, i agree.
Especially since some people tend to use far out patterns (towards the end of the possible) as like templating patterns and stuff.
So a more Grid like list, may be preferable (Top left to Bottom right) ?
Absolutely. Starting with 001 in the upper left, going sequentially downwards until it reaches some maximum position and starting over in the next column.
I tend to use far out patterns myself - grouping things in number by structure (ie: intro segments are 10-19, next is 20-29, whatever next is 30-39 etc…)
