Clear Pattern - Are You Sure? Y/N

Elektron Gear Digitakt
#1

Please make an ‘are you sure’ question for pattern clear. Or is there any method to stop this happening?

With all the combination of FUNC + buttons all around the Digitakt, its so easy to make this critical mistake.

With COPY and PASTE being neighbours to pattern CLEAR, it’s so easy to do.

All three of these tasks are not really performance functions, but project functions, so it wouldn’t slow things up. Surely paste and clear warrant a prompt? There’s no UNDO after all.

If I’ve been ‘performing’, I find myself nervously checking the patterns in my project before project saving, or having to start again entirely.

Can anyone help me?

I have had all too many UNTITLED disasters. :neutral_face:

#2

On the Digitone, if you hit Func+Clear again, the pattern clear is undone. I’m sure it’s the same on the Digitakt. This undo works for undo’ing most Clear functions AFAIK.

12 Likes
#3

What @d4ydream said.
I’d also suggest to do a temp save often, so u can revert to a recently saved state without having lost too much work. If it’s a feature request then I suggest you post it in the DT Feature Request thread and/or contact Elektron.

1 Like
#4

Yep same on digitakt, but you only need to do one little thing then it’s gone forever!

#5

Thank you for the replies - nice to know that CLEAR can be reversed immediately. It’s very frustrating. You often don’t know you have done this until it’s too late, when you reload a project. If you’ve got 8 patterns or more, any one of them could have been cleared with the wrong button press while copy pasting etc. It’s because the screen text is so small it can go unnoticed. An overlaid ‘are you sure’ would be so welcome. Most of these mistakes are made during project creation rather than performance. I do save a copy of the project so I can undo a session, but it’s critical when it goes wrong :expressionless:

#6

For me the problem is rather FUNC+YES, and especially FUNC+NO. Those are the ones that don’t have a “undo” function. :disappointed_relieved: :sob:

#7

Do those of you that press the wrong combos use other machines with similar functions but different layouts?, in all the years I have owned my DT I cannot recall ever hitting yes instead of no, same as I have never stepped on the accelerator when wanting the brake.

#8

Even when you switch from manual to automatic ? :wink:

Only mentioned because we seem to be considering different implementations on different elektron hardware.

#9

I wonder if it’s “easy to do, easy to undo” intentionally, so you can use it as a performance tool? It’s simpler than mute/unmute-all.

1 Like
#10

No. it has happened since the beginning of having gear and the DT was my first machine (well, after my volca beats, but that doesn’t count really :stuck_out_tongue:). The problem ist how close those two buttons are. I know, I could train to be more precise, but it is still happening. :-/