I am using MESS mainly in concerts with improvised music where you never ‘know’ the actual BPM of the music.
When using time related effects like in MESS , the tap tempo feature is a very important and useful tool.
topic #1:
MESS unfortunaley only indicates the current effect tempo with a flashing LED when the sequencer is running, although even in ‘stop mode’ some effects are related to the tapped or saved preset tempo.
I don’t understand why the tempo LED is only active in sequencer mode.
If Polyend wants to distinguish between a playing or not playing sequencer - this is easily seen via the flashing track-numbers and the enlightened steps of the sequence. This hasn’t to be done via the tempo LED.
Please, everyone, if you would like to see this function, vote for it in my feature request:
topic #2:
when playing a concert and changing a preset on the fly the current tempo is not been kept. While loading an effect preset it loads automatically the saved tempo information.
It would be great if there was a global parameter where you can choose between “load tempo with preset” and “keep always the current tempo” or so to say “preset tempo” and “global tempo”.
If you would like to see this feature as well in upcoming firmware updates, please vote for it in my feature request:
topic #3:
Further, it would be helpful if an Expression Pedal (or the ‘Macro’ button) could change two nor more tempo related parameters at the same time, as e.g. some delay effects actually have two tempo related parameters. Or, if you have more than one microlooper/delay FX-track in a preset, it would be possible to change ALL microlooper/delay note values at the same time via the expression pedal.
This would open a completly new universe for expression pedal and Macro button use.