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Hardware Sequencers => BeatStep Pro => Beatstep Pro - Feature requests => Topic started by: gumcontrol on July 09, 2017, 09:02:02 am

Title: Latching Drum Mute Mode
Post by: gumcontrol on July 09, 2017, 09:02:02 am

We need the ability to latch the drum mute mode. Currently we have to hold DRUM + MUTE, which means we can't use two hands for muting multiple drums at once and other performance-related tasks. The idea here is to remove the necessity to hold DRUM + MUTE when muting drums in the drum sequencer and replace it with simple, hands-free on/off functionality.

I suggest two ways this could be implemented, either method would be great, or I'm sure the Arturia engineers can come up with something even better:

• SHIFT + DRUM + MUTE to latch Drum Mute Mode; press MUTE again to exit (unlatch)
• Make Drum Mute Latching Mode available as an option in MCC and provide a hardware shortcut to toggle it on/off like you did for the roller/looper (SHIFT + STEP 9). This way the normal DRUM + MUTE button combo would enter the latched (instead of momentary) drum mute mode.

Drum muting is an essential part of my live & production workflow, so I modified the BSP hardware to achieve this latching. I'd much rather this was done with a firmware update. See video:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/nlgDSM__mOc (http://www.youtube.com/embed/nlgDSM__mOc)