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I'm thinking of one of those backlit LCD screens. Anything, including LEDs, can be washed out in bright lighting conditions (yet another reason not play outside in the daytime as far as I'm concerned...), and I suppose it's less expensive from a hardware cost perspective, but a pixel-based display would (in theory) give greater flexibility to the display. The current setup works pretty well for the EDP as it is, but as long as I'm fantasizing about a new hardware platform and expanded software, I'd like a bigger display. And more information can be more confusing when you're improvising, but as it is I have to remember which loops have information in them with almost no visual feedback from the EDP display. Other things that might be nice to monitor from the display would be the current length of each loop, where you are in the current playing loop (a counter). Now every day I work with several software tools that have horrible, horrible interfaces which were the product of creeping featureitis, but I'm just brainstorming. A thousand great features and a crap interface are worth less than a dozen great features and a great interface. Actually, I wish that I had a foot controller that displayed a lot of this information. I wish there was something like a Rocktron All-Access, but with smoother switches and a programmable LCD display above each switch. I know that there's zero chance of such a thing ever getting made, but it'd be nice. The lack of really good MIDI foot controllers is a sad thing. TravisH On May 11, 2004, at 4:52 AM, matthias wrote: >> From: Travis Hartnett [mailto:tiktok@sprintmail.com] >> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 12:00 PM >> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >> Subject: RE: EDP multitap feature >> >> >> I think this is the sort of thing that'd have to wait until a new >> hardware platform for the Loop software evolves. On the next EDP I'd >> like to see a large LCD display (something along the lines of the tc >> D2/M1/G-Force) so that you could simultaneously monitor a variety of >> parameters--loop time, where you are in the loop, feedback level, any >> commands waiting for the lame duck period to finish, number of loops >> with material in them, etc. This sort of display would make it easier >> to program things like multi-tap loop. > > Sure I would love to display more. > but an LCD is not necessarily better because its less visible and more > information is more confusion when you are improvising. > > So how would the display solve the problem of operation? > Do you want menus to step through and program patterns of taps/volumes > and then call those... from the presets?