@Timo thanks a lot for your suggestions!
Please note that we’re very reluctant to add new complexity to LoopA - as it should be easy to understand and use by everyone - we’ve already implemented quite a few “tricky” key combinations and features in the last years, that not everyone can utilize because they may be too complicated or may be too specialized to be easily remembered. As another really limiting factor, we’re running low on available RAM, which will make memory-intensive new features very difficult to realize (like point #5, where we’d need to load the new session/song in the background, which would effectively double the RAM requirements, to be able to activate it in sync with a new measure).
In this context, here are points that i think could be realized regarding the limited RAM aspect and that would also fit into the philosophy and would avoid complexity:
1: instant mutes/unmutes would be a really nice new session config parameter, great idea!
2: yes, that’s possible - but not utilizing a real copy buffer, but instant copies of the current scene to the previous or next scene, we’d need to find a good key combination for that
4: also a great idea, ideally also realized as a session parameter
6: very nice, also as a session parameter, affecting all clips?
8: yes, good idea - basically arm for a single clip length during runtime - we’d need to find a good key combination for that and would also need to specify if LoopA should wait for the current clip to “wrap around” before arming for a full clip length, so that the clip is exactly recorded once? I could also utilize that feature to record e.g. a pattern from my TT303 🙂 - i like the idea!
At least half of them should be possible 🙂.
We’re planning a new software release for springtime 2024 (new LoopA releases are happening about yearly). If you had to prioritize any wish on the above list of possible features, which one would rank as number 1? 🙂
Thanks a lot and best regards,
Peter
