A more useful SELECT knob

[gospodindilly-ops]

I’ve been thinking about the role of the SELECT knob.

It feels like such a valuable physical control to dedicate mainly to BPM. Tempo is important, of course, but it’s not something I constantly need to adjust while working with the instrument.

Now that BPM LOCK exists, maybe SELECT could become a more general navigation/editing control — for navigating menus, selecting steps, moving through parameters, presets, songs, etc.

BPM could then be accessed through a modifier or another existing control when needed.

It feels like this could unlock quite a lot of extra functionality without changing the hardware.

[tradiuz]

Having select be assignable with various options would give a few nice improvements to usability and workflow.

Examples:

• BPM - same as it ever was
• MENU - scrolls through the current mode's menus instead of having to hit the button over and over (looking at you sequencer)
• TRANS - Transpose on the fly?
• STEP - let you rewind or fast forward through the notes being played in the sequencer from any menu

[kurogedelic]

Thanks for the idea, and thanks @tradiuz for the list. Now that BPM LOCK exists, giving SELECT more to do makes sense: a setting for what SELECT does (BPM, paging through the current menus, transpose, moving through the steps) is close to what I have in mind. Noted for 1.1.

[jsmonzani]

I would love to use it for controlling velocity. I'm unsure if mod wheel is supported by some instruments but it would be a valid use as well.

Basically using it not only for navigation but for performance expressivity.

[edit, removed a suggestion that doesn't make sense with 1.5.1 release]