Sorry Pete I couldn’t sleep, so I started playing around on my IPhone 11 ST3b.
I have possibly mentioned this already but here it goes again it might be more clear this time.
What I expect and what I get.
When in stop mode.
I have 3 loops in first half of song
I can long press and drag waveform to any point to start from, even in the loops , this is good.
So I drag the start point to waveform in the second half of song where there are no loops but then I single tap on any of the three loops yes this loop gets selected and cued up to play from its beginning, but then realise it is not highlighted as it should be and I also realise I can not tap on this loop again to place a permanent loop point on this loop, I guess it’s because it’s not playing, but this logic is limiting, I should be able to highlight a loop then with another touch set it to loop hit play and I have what I want.
So as I mentioned before
One loop Logic
Tap 1 selects and highlights
Tap 2 enables permanent loop
Tap 3 disables permanent loop
Tap 4 deselects and removes highlight and auto returns to last start point selection but only in stop mode in play mode it just keeps playing through to next selection if no new selection is used it just plays on through to end of song.
This then gives you great flexibility, normally you only need to tap once to select and hit play but you have more options two taps away, yet you can pull out of them with a couple more taps
Now the other logic I would have is if I decide to go to a completely new loop and move away to it with a single tap whatever permanent loop setting I had chosen in the last loop point would be canceled and if you disable all loop points the last wave selection is remembered.
This means if I was in the second half of my song and I paused and have chosen loop points with any permanent loops engaged as long as I don’t have any loop points selected I can continue from my last waveform position.
I haven’t lost my place.
This means total freedom to hit loops and change your mind on the run with very quick operation so you can manipulate you show on the run without fear you might stuff it up.
Here is another idea to make things quick regarding the foot pedal loop selection switch, I know it works great but this might make it even better, imagine you are stepping through the 6 loops with the foot switch and the now playing loop is coming to an end yet you left it a bit late to search for next loop and you are out of time or just confused to which loop you should choose so you ended up on the wrong loop and it’s totally inappropriate IF YOU LONG PRESS ON YOUR FOOT SWITCH IT CLEARS THE SELECTIONS and gets you out of the poo, it’s like slamming on a brake before an accident.
A long press is a lot quicker than six taps.
Now that I think of it why have the seventh hit? it makes more sense to have 6 hits to choose loops and a long press to cancel selection.
I think that would speed things up even more.
So as you load a song no loops are selected first hit chooses the first loop and so on till you get to six then it goes to first loop and a long press clears the selection.
Yes I think that is a lot more practical,
What do you think?
Ok Im back to bed.
