I have some weird goofiness going on in a sequence, I’m having trouble tracking the issue down using the Trig keys and information on the screen.
My last serious foray into music production was in the '90s, I used Cubase VST 3.7. In it was an event viewer called the List Editor, it provided a sort-of spreadsheet view of every MIDI event generated by the sequencer: notes + velocites, CCs, PCs, etc. You could see and manipulate things numerically, you sometimes caught things in the List Editor that you couldn’t easily see in the main timeline.
Does such a thing exist on the Digitone? From what I can tell, trigs and locks are like MIDI events, I would imagine that there could be a way to view/edit them in a text view on the screen.
In a word no. Event list editors are fairly rare in hardware sequencers these days sadly, aside from trackers or a vintage midi sequencer, the only current hardware sequencers I know of with event list edit are the MPC range, there may be others but not on any Elektron gear.
Not really, it is just a different way of showing the data, some older sequencers such as RM1x and RS7000 had both TR style grid and event list, you could switch between views. List view gives a very nice overview of all the data on a step, and is often very fast to edit, for example editing velocity or note length etc.
That’s a shame. I bet if the developers ever decided to add one, they could make good use of the OLED screen.
In a nutshell, a List Editor gives you a 50,000 ft view of all the details of all the events of a sequence on a single screen. The way the Digitone displays information, it’s limited to individual steps with some stuff buried inside parameter windows; or it’s limited to a 16-step window.
Looking around elsewhere, I see that the newer MPC series have pretty robust List Editors (jinx darenager).