One finger mute

Elektron Gear Model:Cycles
#1

I just bought this nice device, but one finger mute missing was HUGE downer.

Need of modifier key for mute is unbearable situation!

Simple test for simulating live situation: Try to mute or unmute all the channels at once, but with only one hand!

Pressing 6 pads with 5 fingers is already hard, but 7… That is TOO WAY MUCH! No-one has 7 fingers! 6 fingers is rare, but possible, so 6 pads is ok!

Luckily this should be really easy to implement.

Best way would be to have possibility to mute from pads and trig keys individually enabled/disabled.

Trig keys mute like in MonoMachine and A4/AK-37 with possibility select play or mute for pads.

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#2

…BUT u can actually play the tracks and their mute behaviour!
hit a pad…and aslong u keep ur finger on it, it won’t be triggered again…
so u hear one last “played” sound from that track…but aslong u hold it…it won’t play again…until u release ur finger again…
really great for performing…

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#3

Adding onto what @reeloy said, if you p-lock the volume of each step in your sequence to whatever, then turn the whole track volume down to zero, hitting (and holding) a pad will mute that track for as long as the pad’s held down - plus it won’t trigger the track on the initial hit. Hope that helps.

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#4

FUNC + Settings for a moment and voila!

Display will say about rename pattern, but that can be exited just by pressing back.

This should be documented not “hidden” feature.

#5

That is the hack, yes. But it only works on a pattern that hasn’t been saved yet.

Unless you’ve discovered something else that makes it work for a saved pattern ?

#6

My solution for this has been muting and controlling track levels from a midi controller.

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#7

Works with saved patterns totally normally!

#8

That’s really interesting. The guy in the video says it doesn’t work with saved patterns with his Samples, and I can’t get it to work with saved patterns on my Cycles.

I wonder if you and the guy in the video (@ALBER) have different firmware revisions ?