So I was thinking of the sample libraries out there that give you raw samples - 50 snares and 59 kicks and so on - and thinking of how cool it would be if one could click on a cell and bring up a list of samples you would want on that key - say you have ten favorite snares and want to pick one but you also want your snare to always be triggered by D2. It’s a cells-within-a-cell idea. So this feature would allow you to set up say ten cells the way you want, envelopes and processing and so on, and then say “populate new list” and all of these instruments would then be in the pop up menu for a cell of your choice. Then you could assign a MIDI CC to the cell and select instruments from the list with it.
Also in the “cell within a cell” concept - what about being able to embed multi-channel samples in a single cell? Open up a grid that’s 10x10 and add mic perspectives left to right and velocities top to bottom, with drag-able corners on the velocities to define where the switching occurs, so that the row with the loudest hits are on top and have a range of 125-127, and then whatever ranges on down.
Last thought is a round-robin group- say you make a cell where the snare is, and it’s linked to other cells somewhere out of usual range like C-2 to G-2, and when enabled it switches between those cells, in a selectable algorithm like “random with no repeats within two triggers” or the like, with an option to reset round-robins on a play command, or even an option to have the app keep a tally of when snare hits are in a sequence, so upon tapping a “commit round robins” option when all your snares are in place, they will play back predictably, rather than differently ever time you hit play.
(Edit: more randomization options would be great.)
Strictly speaking one could do some of this with just a ton of cells and some MIDI trickery - but wouldn’t it be better to just have it all work?
