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One thing that is missing (if he does intend to use this without looking at his computer screen) is the LCD display!? Especially now with features such as Automap (by novation) it would have been really useful to have a display setup that would tell you the name of tracks, name of clips playing...maybe even a sample/preset browser for loading up your step sequencer or programming synths/fx?
I thought about this but realised that then again I would end up staring at some kind of display. And this is what i want to avoid. I figured out that I do not need so much different sounds on stage and that it is more important for me to spend a lot of time designing each single sound well enough and to work on the grooves and effects. In the stage situation I am fine with a limited amount of sounds and limited access to parameters because I do not want to end up with endless varitions of a sound but more focus on structure. For this task I do not need the display.
The main element is the 8 channel / 5 slot matrix which is my playground for each single piece. I have enough to do on stage playing with the possibilites of this matrix.
The control over some sound parameters is secondary.
Currently I work on the assignement of the three knobs and the toggle button I have on each channel. I made lots of efforts to create interesting morphing sounds but finally figured out it does not help me so much musically. I was able to morph from some sine wave plonc! sound to variuos hihats on one channel, but then I realised all I really need musically in this channel is a hihat. So i dismissed that complex morph in favour of simple hihat parameters ( fitering, decay, hold time ) and the result is much better.
There is always this impulse to add more and more features, but I am quit happy that Monodeck II forces me to really think about the structure instead of getting lost in possibilites.
Robert
