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track leds / group leds confusion


John E. Finster
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Hi, I´m a little confused by the track and group leds of my seq4:

 

In my seq4 I only built in 4 track buttons with which I select the group, when I´m in the pattern screen. But I added 4 green leds for the current group as well as 4 yellow leds for the curren group. This works almost all the time, the current track and group is correctly indicated.

But when I´m in the pattern screen, the green track led also indicates the current group. I was under the impression, that the track and group leds always indicate tracks and groups, even in the pattern screen. 

 

I tripplechecked the wiring and I don´t think this is a hardware problem. Is there something in the hardware config file I overlooked? Or am I missunderstanding somthing about the leds/button assignments or even the seq4 system completely?

 

Thanks and greetings

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But when I´m in the pattern screen, the green track led also indicates the current group. I was under the impression, that the track and group leds always indicate tracks and groups, even in the pattern screen. 

 

No, especially for users of the legacy-frontpanel which doesn't provide group LEDs and buttons, the LEDs have to display the group in this screen.

 

It's consistent from my point of view: the track buttons select the group in this page, accordingly the track LEDs should display the according function as well, otherwise this wouldn't be consistent.

 

So: no special treatment between legacy and wilba's frontpanel, nothing special to configure or understand, no hidden switches and no obscure options to be set in the HWCFG file.

 

Best Regards, Thorsten.

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Hi, it´s me again...

 

I was playing with my seq4 this morning and I was able to confirm my confusion again.

 

when I´m not in the pattern screen, the green leds show the selected track, the yellow leds show the group. But when I change into the pattern screen, the green leds immediatly also show the selected group even before I press a track button to select another group. This seems inconsistent to me. If I had assigned some of the buttons to select a group, both leds would still show the group and not track and group.

In the videos on the seq4 page (teaser 1&2), this doesn´t seem to happen. I´m wondering what I could have done different compared to the wilba-seq4.

 

I´m sorry, if I´m completely on the wrong track and just babbling madly.

 

My regards

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Hi,

 

from my point of view you are on the wrong track (resp. group ;-)

The handling based on your description is the expected handling.

 

 

 

In the videos on the seq4 page (teaser 1&2), this doesn´t seem to happen.

 

yes, because at the time I created the video the "vintage panel" wasn't correctly supported, which means the track LED didn't display the group - but the track buttons select the group...

This was a bug complained by the "vintage panel" users, and I fixed it.

In addition, I see now reason why somebody would like to select a track in the pattern page.

 

You are requesting a different handling, but this would mean that I would have to add a "private" option for you, which isn't used by myself (and most users).

Is it really worth the effort? I don't think so.

Especially since I confirmed, that your hardware is working correctly?

 

Best Regards, Thorsten.

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Hi TK, thanks for the info.

 

I see now, what went wrong. It is definitely not necessary to implement a special option just for my seq4 built. especially, since even I consider this a minor issue. The main reason I brought this up here was, that I couldn´t understand if there were anything I could have done wrong.

On the other hand, I can be sure now, that my seq4 works properly.

 

Thanks again for the help and the patience.

 

my regards

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  • 1 month later...

Hi,

 

I made the "bug" work again  :D . My track leds always show the selected track and my group leds always show the selected group inside the pattern screen now. I looked at the old source revisions and investigated, what you changed from 4.019 to 4.020.

 

I´m sorry for being overly excited about this, even I considered this, if at all, a mere aesthetic issue. But somehow I couldn´t let this go....

 

And now, I don´t have to    :laugh: . For now at least....

 

my regards

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