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Arrangements
Reload or load part as a per row setting in arrangement mode. Also, can parts even be used in arrangements?
Extended mode like on MD.
Effects
Sidechain on compressor. (4)
Add a noise gate.
Add a ring mod.
Add a transient designer. (2)
Add delay/reverb to FX slot 1. (2)
Add stereo imager – xyz parameters; like if we move our head maybe add some high shelf or double notch filters to create some rear effect, sound coming from behind. (2)
Add a rotary/Leslie effect. (2)
EFX block that can be a 'focus' effect. So whichever track is currently selected, the effect applies to it. Maybe the current effect blocks could be made to select sources other than the track they're on, a bit like MD's LFOs. So sources would be track 1-8 or focus track.
A bypass that can be toggled on the effects. (2)
3rd FX bank – accessed by pressing both FX buttons together.
Wet/dry on lo-fi effect.
Global options / improvements
Accents – per-track accent tracks (more flexible than p-locking volume), like it is on the MD.
Fader curve settings.
File/folder navigation – make general workflow improvements / A fast way to select the next empty slot in the machine select menu.. it takes long when you have many machines in your project / File/folder navigation – When leaving a folder by pressing left in the file browser the cursor should sit on that folder in the above folder and not at the first entry on the top... very annoying when browsing through samples / Being able to rename files with a usb keyboard and deleting files. (4)
Function + Track Trig = taken to Track Page like on the MD.
LEDs – mixer LEDs to be green instead of red so that its less easy to wipe out trigs by mistake.
Master track – more options; able to use Amp settings on master track / use unused pages for more FX. (3)
Mixer – encoders act as mutes when pressed for the inputs / main / cue. (2)
Other mute options – not everyone happy with current methods to mute / option to save track mutes as part of a pattern or at least stored as part of a scene / An option that allows to mute a track before fx are applied. (7)
Mixer – able to access track parameters while in mixer mode. (3)
Mixer – control over all track levels in mixer mode. One way – when holding down a TRACK button the master LEVEL knob controls the level of that track. the other PARAMETER knobs could also be assigned other mixing functions like panning etc. (2)
Mixer – a way to lower the volume for all OT channels with one knob movement.
Mixer – option to have mixer settings on a per pattern basis.
Mixer – If a track has sequence data (playing) the correcsponding trig button could bling letting you quickly know which to mute.
Memory – More sample slots and waaay more ram please. (2)
P-Locks - Function + parameter while in record mode (or similar) to set a default p-locked value to all steps in the current pattern.
P-Locks – realtime recording. (6)
P-Locks – option to lock p-locks so that if you disable a step and enable it again the locks are still on the step. Good for live jamming sequence steps / Perhaps a modifier key when added to the disable would clear the trig of its p-lock. (3)
P-Locks – wish to have a shortcut to see all Plocks of a Step within one View.
P-Locks – holding down track button of a track which is currently not selected + turning knob changes parameter on that track without leaving the currently selected track.
Routing – option to use the cue outputs as alternate outputs / send cue to headphones only / have a mono mode to use A/B/C/D outs as 4 mono outs. (5)
Routing – Independent levels in mixer for a,b,c,d inputs, rather than just 2 stereo.
Routing – master volume to be controlled by volume knob
Routing – some kind of send/return fx group like on the MD would be very helpful for for muting single tracks.
Routing – something like the MD's ctrl-8p but wouldn't want to sacrifice a track to use it!
Scale setup – on step lengths less than 16, the next 15 steps start on a new page.
Swing – allow ‘groove templates’ to be extracted from audio files.
Tempo – more inbetween steppings when setting the original speed of a static track.
Tempo – autostart after tap tempo, like you just have to tap tempo four times and it starts on next beat.
Track names (sample names) – visible all at once at the top level / in large fonts. (3)
LFOs
Envelope follower – add EF deluxe in the LFO section
LFO designer – allow variable length of the waveforms.
LFO designer – some way of sharing custome LFOs with other OT users. (2)
LFO designer – Modulate LFO designer start point. (2)
LFO reset – at the start of the pattern / restart when you press play. (2)
A "tag" for LFO's that have parameters locked to any scene.
Machines
New machine for one-shot samples – a ‘128 Machine’; like flex machine but a knob to select one of 128 samples loaded / something like the DigiPro BBox machine on the MnM, except you bring your own samples / option for tracks in the same pattern bank to have their own samples from the 128 loaded / Multi machine - a machine which has 8 samples assigned to it, the sample 1-8 can be selected to play using p-lock, would be good for chords and drums. Yeah you can do similar with sample locks, but plocking would be faster and more experimental (assign an LFO etc) (4)
New Machine – ‘Granular’ machine; possible controls of the Granular Machine could be Start, Length, Sweep Amount, Sweep Rate, Grain Size, Smooth Amount, grain Time/Length, Number of grains / possibly make this a granuar effect rather than a machine. (5)
New machine – input pitchshift, realtime input signal can be shifted in pitch, a few taps would be nice so you could make chords from a mono source etc, maybe +|- 1 octave, and a mix amount for the signal input and the shifted.
Neighbor machine – playback seetup could be used to select up to 6 track sources via the A-F value knobs.I see this as being more versatile if the current neighbor machine behavior were bypassable and all inputs could be manually selected. The playback section for the neighbor machine would set the input levels for each of the 6 inputs. (3)
Midi machines independantly saved, so have a midi folder on the card, where you can save setups for various devices - channel, type, cc assignments etc, so each external device can have its own settings that can be freely loaded into the midi tracks.
MIDI
MIDI tracks – could be set for each track whether to be Key or Drum.
Able to assign a different note number and midi channel to a sample, so you can play 16 samples per midi channel, in different mute groups.
Accept external midi clock / tempo sync. (2)
Midi implementation chart published so we know which midi cc number belongs to which parameter
Seq transpose the way it is implemented on the monomachine (with the FIX option to exclude tracks from transposing) I'd love to be able to make samples pitch through midi.
MIDI sequencer to be able to send program changes on every step.
When OT gets its MIDI sequencer, I would love to see a MIDI Learn facility as part of it. (2)
Select patterns via MIDI. / Assign scenes via MIDI / full midi control of pattern, scene and fader from your DAW would allow for really tight studio integration. Send midi CC's to control pattern selection (unquantized), scene selection for both Scene A and Scene B and a crossfader disconnect mode to use remote midi CC's to control the scene fades/transitions. (3)
MIDI file import.
Patterns / Parts
Switching patterns/parts – option to have samples from a previous part playing after you switched to a new part and then instantly change to the samples/machines of the new part individually for each machine.
More than 4 parts per bank. (6)
Patterns of a specific bank contstantly available. This eliminates a multi button push to change the pattern and can be crucial when playing live.
Pption to reload current part on change, meaning that if this option were assigned per part, whenever a new part were loaded the last part used would be reloadedt. This would be especially usefull in regard to scenes as I tend to use a specific scene when first switching to a pattern/part and a different scene for the transition out of a pattern.
Projects
Display name of currently loaded project on LCD.
Copy/paste a bank from one project to another.
Samples
Sample format – support for more file formats (e.g. MP3) (2)
Sample management – way of marking a sample that is in use by any project, part, tracks / more sample management options / per track auto-save option / ‘consolidate’ project samples / learn some lessons from DAWs / more file name option. (7)
Sample manipulation – ability to fade one sample into another using the cross fader.
Sample preview – option to preview in time with track (i.e. not as it is on the CF card.)
Sample transfer – allow OT to send/recieve samples via turbo midi to/from the MDUW.
Sample copy option – for making non-destructive changes to original sample.
Chromatic sample playback.
Dual Mode – specially-prepared samples where each side is monophonic can be re-panned and re-muted independently. For example, if there is a synth lead on the hard left and a bassline on the hard right, Dual Mode allows independent processing and re-panning of the two / function + xfader should switch interface view to the other 8 tracks. (2)
Sampling / Recording
Simple sample mode – for taking lots of samples in succession.
‘One touch’ recording / sampling.
Sampling – auto-normalise feature.
Sampling – ‘one shot’ recording mode, or make it so that using the ONE2 mode toggles sampling on/off. / Or a looper machine. Add a dedicated looper machine / Allow different ‘passes’ of a loop to be recorded to different track so you can have up to 8 layers on the 8 OT tracks. (11)
Static recording – recording directly to the CF card without time limit / some kind of ‘master’ track recorder to capture a performance. (4)
Flex Rec's – be able to dynamically switch the from pre to post and back and forth.
Syncing – It is going to be great if it had function that sync to selected external audio signal input like Soundbite.
Something to indicate when you are actually recording - like a [rec] readout in the lcd / make the track button blink when sampling. (3)
Backspace function when naming/renaming recorded and sliced samples. It will make this task much faster.
Sampling Threshold – turn encoder in rec setup to THOL, push encoder to make level window pop up, set level. Now sampling starts when input source hits level set. (3)
Auto-save and auto-load recorder option - I suggest this should be auto assigned to a free static slot and the corresponding track slot changed to a static automatically. Or at least the option to do it automatically. It's still a lil tedious finding an empty static slot and loading in.
Scenes
Scenes linked to patterns – be able to switch patterns with scenes, while morphing parameters as normal / ‘Crossfader triggerable mode’, acting like the hold function from the LFO. The value's would be held until the next step when it would update. (4)
Scenes linked to slicing – loop slices mappable to scenes; can kind of be done with the start parameter, but not as accurately.
Scene management – recall in A/B pairs.
Scene management – "Copy/paste scene" functions. Take the current scene A, whatever it might be, and copy it somewhere. Let's say I can copy it to whatever scene is currently assigned to B. That will let me start with whatever the current state of scene A is and tweak it, while playing, to my heart's content – and still return to whatever it was at the time I decided to copy it. (6)
Scene management – some lights to show which trigs have scene info written to them and which are blank (only when holding either scene button).
Scene management – scene browser; some way of picking a scene and finding out all of the parameters that it controls.
Mute crossfader moves for certain tracks and not others - that is, the crossfader isn't necessarily global.
Scene lock mode – pressing Function + double tapping Scene would enter "Scene Lock" mode, removing the need to press the Scene button to change scenes. While in this mode, scenes 1-8 would only be assingable to Scene A and scenes 9-16 would only be assignable to Scene B. Also while in this mode, track select buttons would function as instant mte/unmute wiithout use of the Function key. Pattern selection would of course continue to function normally.
Sequencer
Clearer indication of which page when editing in the sequencer (e.g. on LCD.) (2)
Different modes of step travel (Forward/Backwards/Pendulum/ Random/Odd/Even) on a per track basis.
Quantized start/stopping of tracks.
Finish the sequencer. even just the core md/mnm stuff for now. like if i change a pattern length from 16->32 or 32->64, it should double the current one, just like the md/mnm do. (2)
Slicing / Trimming
Slices – control over parameters of each indidual slice (e.g. pitch) separate to master tempo / trigger slices from external controller / control over slice payback options, and make it possible to make some slices immune to p-locks. (4)
Slices – start parameter on the playback page changes to slice number - so 1 increment = 1 slice, the slice knob to be scaled so that no matter what division you use the knob will work 1-1.
More/better ways of smoothing out clicks & pops automatically. (3)
Lockable/fixable loop window – set the loop points to say 1 bar in an 8 bar sample ; lock down the points so they may be shifted around the sample to pick an alternate bar. Allow loop lock to be p-locked.
Slice-to-transients option should be implemented. (2)
Loop legato mode, where loops playback and trigs mute or unmute sections. Much faster then having to create trigless trigs with volume locked to zero.
Cut/paste – It would be nice if you could set the start and end points to a section of the waveform and cut it out, it would be good to have the option for the gap to remain or for the data each side to butt up (oi! no laughing in the back!) depending on what type of cut operation. Also the cut data could be pasted into a new sample for further edits.
Extract current slice as new sample. (2)
Trim - transpose selection, a permanent transpose operation. (2)
Track options
Content – see if a track has content before I unmute it. I think all eketron machines suffer this issue.
Trig behaviour
An option like how slide is done.
When you set a trig in the sequencer, it does not actually get set until you release the button after pressing it / maybe preview through headphones, but doesn’t sound in the master output until you release. (3)
Filter envelope – able to be trigged by trigless trigs.
Options to randomise placement of trigs / randomise trig settings.
Trigger slices using trig buttons.
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