I’m not advocating any change to the current setup though - it’s a suggested addition (a shortcut) to reduce three actions to 1 - not such a bad idea for an ‘immediate’ instrument paradigm and probably a lot more realistic than most suggestions found in these FR threads
I notice it most when I need to shift Transpose (which happens a lot) it’s quite cumbersome for such an important function
even if the push turn ONLY applied to that KBT parameter and offered straight octave jumps it would be a massive workflow boost
probably the easiest way to achieve quick-ish (certainly quicker) transpose which we’re all crying out for
Have you used the MC-101 or 707? They have this nice keyboard layout on the buttons, the top corner buttons act as octave transpose keys. I’d love to see something similar on the models tbh - just limit the chromatic keys to 12 semitones and use the remaining 4 creatively to add octave switches and you even have two extra buttons remaining that could be used for something cool…
Fn Twisting e.g. Pitch is geared very slowly indeed for semitone hops - it’s even slower if you turn fast
by contrast when dealing in cents the encoder can be swept full range in one go
not possible to get more than a few semitones when sweeping with FN held - it seems super slow, even to achieve control, plus odd that faster Fn turning should be so tardy
FR is improved faster/accelerated Fn twist gearing
Don’t think I’d want that, personally. That’s only one use case for control-all, it’s quite possible that you’d want to make one change, do other stuff (muting, adding/removing trigs, etc), make another control-all change, etc etc, before reloading the pattern.
MD is still king in that department: the super swift function+mode combo. So easy because they are next to each other and isolated from other buttons. The reload kit combo on AR is way more tricky. Far from each other and surrounded by other buttons to get confused with. Not comfy to do with one hand.
Yeah I agree, I often use ctrl all for zeroing track level to then individually set mix levels, so it would be unhelpful if it reverted when releasing the button.
I guess in some instances it could be handy though.