1.2 plan: fewer pages, easier to find things (feedback wanted)

[kurogedelic]

The SEQ button now has seven pages, and even I get lost in them. For 1.2 I want to make the pages simpler. It changes where things are, so I'd like your thoughts before I start.

Before → after

Now

• SEQ: STEP → PATTERN → PHRASES → SONG → CHANCE → AUTOMATION → AUTO LIST
• GLO: MIXER → GLOBAL → SYSTEM
• SEQ held: TOOLS on some pages, SONG on others

1.2

• HOME: HOME → MIXER
• SEQ: STEP ↔ AUTOMATION (just two pages)
• GLO: GLOBAL → SONG → SYSTEM
• SEQ held: TOOLS, always

What moves where

• MIXER → HOME. Press HOME twice and you're on the mixer.
• SONG → GLO. SONG is about the whole song, not one track, so it goes with the global pages.
• CHANCE, RATCH, AUTO LIST → AUTOMATION. One page for everything that happens on a single step: locks, automation, chance and ratchets, all in one list.
• PATTERN → SEQ TOOLS. LEN, DIV, SWING and GATE are already on the knobs when you hold SEQ.
• PHRASES → SAVE (next to PRESETS, USER and PROJECT), so everything you load is in one place.

So the SEQ button is simply: the notes (STEP) and what happens on each step (AUTOMATION).

What stays the same

• Your projects, sounds and patterns. Nothing in them changes and everything sounds the same.
• The quick layers (FX, GLO, SCL, EDIT, REC).

Tell me

• Would this make a page you use a lot harder to reach?
• Is anything else about moving around the FM-1 confusing? Earlier ideas in A more useful SELECT knob #84, add back select to travel through pages? #79, HOME as Shift / function lock #71 and UI idea: SELECT as a parameter-bank selector #128 are part of this too.

I'll keep this open for a while, and what we decide here goes into 1.2.

[benjaminguerrer]

I think it looks pretty good, makes sense how everything's grouped on 1.2. However, I find it a bit awkward to navigate through patterns in a song, but maybe that's on me, still learning to navigate around the interface.

[gospodindilly-ops]

from #90

[kurogedelic]

This plan is in Felucca 1.4: https://github.com/hugelton/Felucca/releases/tag/v1.4

The SEQ button is now STEP and AUTOMATION (CHANCE, RATCH, NUDGE, locks and automation in one list), SEQ held is SEQ TOOLS on every page, GLO opens SONG, PHRASES is on SAVE, and HOME goes round HOME, MIXER and CLOCK. GLOBAL and SYSTEM went too: TUNE is in MENU > AUDIO, ROUT is MENU > MIDI > MIDI IN, and the USB state and CPU load are in MENU > SYSTEM > INFO. Your projects and sounds didn't change for it.

Thanks everyone for the feedback here! I'll close this one. If something is now harder to reach, please open a new discussion.