johnnesky
request: remove drum/pitch channel distinction +
a drum channel 'drum-note-interface' is the interface which has the big boxes for the notes instead of narrow rectangles like those found in the pitch interface.
a drum-note-interface scale consists of the notes C and F# repeating up to 6 octaves from C1.
i assume drum-note-interface is more reduced than the pitch interface to keep it 'simple'.
keeping drum and pitch types separated is not necessary to keep the simplicity of the drum-note-interface.
remove the pitch and drum distinction.
make the current drum-note-interface a 'scale' option, which when selected would look like the original drum-note-interface, and acts to provide a means of placing notes quantized to the original drum-note-interface scale (still shows any notes that are not quantized to the scale, just like all other scales already do).
allow scales to be set per channel for convenience?
merge drum instrument list the pitch instrument list.
in the drumset instrument type, allow assigning specific pitches to triggering certain sounds (this allows it to work with the new drum-pitch-distinctionless layout idea, by default the pitches should be assigned to mimic the original drum pitches).
removing the drum-pitch-distinction would allow for much more pitches to be used with drums (maybe allow changing number of parts in drumsets?).
merging the instrument lists from drum and pitch would allow you to finally use 'basic noise' in pitch channels!
sorry if my merging ideas into a big request is a bad idea, thx.
Well, for one, what to do for drumset? It relies on a more-limited amount of pitches.
Two, basic noise in pitch channels is available in UltraBox and mods of it. It's pretty fun to use.
And finally, I don't think drum channels will ever just be. removed like this or w/e. Drum channels have the specific purpose of being used as percussion. The fact that instrument channels were later able to make drum sounds as well was just kinda bound to happen at some point, but removing the channel type or changing how it looks this much can lead to confusion on the userbase.
