Hi! Personally, I would be most interested in the ability to type "gui" to go to a patch named "guitar", for example. That way you could add dividers that set the bank and program to some dummy value, and name it something like "-Piano" for the Piano category. On the other hand, having an instrument list as a treeview where you can expand and collapse the different categories would be very useful, especially if QWS could also provide an option to sort all patches by bank/program and put them in one big listview, as that sometimes prooves easier. This is the way it currently works for devices like the Fantom-X, and while as I said it has its advantages it can get tedious when you just want to see all patches within a single category rather than all patches sorted by their bank/program. So all in all, thumbs up!
Davy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Leonard de Ruijter Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 22:38 To: QWS list Subject: QWS List Little instrument list suggestion, Hallo There, In my mind, i've played with the following suggestion. I had a little discussion on msn about it today, which made me post it to the list. I'm curious what you all think. My suggestion concerns instrument lists. I happen to have a Roland Juno-Stage myself, a unit with over thousand built-in sounds. Using an instrument list, i sometimes find it hard to navigate it. First letter navigation is possible, but when you want an acoustic bass, you have to press the 'a' key multiple times. It is not possible to use more than one letter for quick navigation. If that would be possible, it could be a big step forward. My idea, however, is the possibility to group the instruments into categories. For my Juno-Stage, for example, i would like a separate category for the user bank, the gm2 set, the separate drum categories and srx-board i'd like to buy in the future. I think it won't be a huge change to the current instrument lists, as most of them have the patches categorized by comments already. I know there are some people who don't use instrument lists that frequently and prefer program/bank navigation. But i'm also sure there are people who will benefit from such a change. If it is not too much asked, and to difficult to build it in, that is. -- Regards, Leonard de Ruijter Playing in the dark To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
