Better Automations?

HI, got my Hapax this week and loving it
I think that product will get better and better so here are my 2 cents
I love automations, I especially love to record them real time ( more than drawing on the screen) because you hear what you do.

Here are a few thing that would make theme better

  • on automation screen you see a list of all your automation, the - “more left pots” are used to scoll on the list, the 2 right ones are used to change interpolation and default value, the right screen pot is useless, I think there could be a better usage of the pots. Here is my proposal

      - Use the 8 pots to change value of the 8 first automation, when pressing the pot you can see the automated lane, when turning the screen change to that lane and automate real time ( like on elektron boxes on flashing record mode) 
       - move interpolate and default value to right screen
      - Yes it looks like " the macro screen on shift +fill" but I think these 2 should be linked together ( in my mind there should be x banks of 8 parameters that can be automated either from pot wiggling ( form hapax or directly from synth pot) , "screen" drawing or step sequenced ( from shift + fill page) 
       
        - I would love to have these "8 pots banks" in instrument definition, so everything would be set to control many paremeters of my synths easily ( if filter cutoff is lets say cc75 it's annoying to scroll 75 cc values before going to that "important parameter" I would love to organize poots positions
    
  • Please add PC on automation lanes ( or at least on macro knobs if you don’t want to merge these 2) , yeah I know many synths would be to slow to PC, but would be very sick with my virus TI

well a pretty dense post, hope it’s clear… thanks again !

Adding to this – I think it would be a nice addition to be able to record automation curves using an encoder.

You can do that with the ASSIGN mode.

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Ooh, thanks!!

Thanks for very fast answer !
well I just tried and you sort of can… but even if it’s really good it’s not as powerful as it could be

  • when adding and assign line and record + play sequence if you move the pot it will be recorded ( great I didn’t notice these 2 modes are linked, thx)
  • but if you keep recording after a full sequence the sequence will record the “not moving pot” and then will delete automation ( I don’t fully get that delete automation thing yet sorry)
  • the screen stays on the first automation lane you did even if you start wiggling an other pot ( so you have to move to automation page and change lane to see what’s happening
  • you are limited to one 8 pots bank ( at least I think so)