The Polyend team welcomes feature requests that are simple to understand and evaluate, by them and by the users who might vote them. @ambivalence I have edited the description to keep it to its basics. Can you check whether it is accurate, please?
The original version is here.
What is the problem?
When you try to perform live both with audio and MIDI, there is an inconsistency in the device’s behavior. For example, you can turn on the variations mode for some tracks, then switch between audio/midi and it won’t reset it, which is great, because all the stuff stays exactly in the state you left it. Still, it doesn’t remember which tracks are selected, so you cannot, let’s say, select some tracks to use in the perform mode (or with the knobs’ parameters), then switch to a MIDI to tweak something and then turn back to continue all the tweakin’ on the performance side. You have to select the tracks all over again.
Also, switching back and forth obligates user to mess with the sample knob, which is tedious. For audio you should find the previous active sample straight from the beginning while it could be just remembered and for MIDI you should select MIDI channel and a program for it.
Even though it could be irrelevant, it seems like sometimes such a reset makes other devices make infinite sounds until you tweak the channel again and reset them this way. Maybe it’s directly connected, maybe it isn’t, but it’s real pain and needs further investigation.
What do you want to achieve?
It would be great to switch between the modes knowing that you won’t lose anything. Just for another example, imagine selecting some tracks with different filter parameters. Now you tweak it and see +N (because it’s relative to their current settings). Then go all MIDI and back. Wouldn’t it be much comfy to see the same selected tracks with +N on the display, like “go on, continue your mastery”? With +N example you could also tweak it back to ~. At least, the tracks could be still selected. If there is a workflow in line with this behavior, there could be a global option.
To sum things up, here’s the list of actions that could be remembered:
- Selected tracks for both audio and midi sequencers
- Previous active sample
- Last active effect on the display available for further tweaking
- Previous active MIDI channel and its relevant options
Are there any workarounds?
No.
Any links to related discussions?
Any references to other products?
Nope.