This is an excerpt from an email I sent to Squarp. I thought I’d share here in case anyone in the community has thoughts! With the 1.60 firmware, Hermod is better than ever! However, I’ve noticed some issues that I’m finding challenging, and was hoping there were solutions.
- The new encoder acceleration feels a bit unpredictable to me. Even though it’s faster (yay!) I find myself now overshooting when adjusting the length. Granted, that may be because I’m constantly jumping between 4, 8, 16, 32 for lengths, as I use Hermod for live-looping.
- 1a. This problem could be solved by implementing the ability to extend a pattern length 2x, duplicating the existing pattern, and also cut a pattern length in half. For example, holding Y plus 1-8 like I’ve outlined here Pattern: extend + copy?
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Pressing a 1-8 number button in STEP mode will delete any note recorded in this step. Is there any way to disable this, or at least allow some kind of undo functionality? I only use Hermod as a MIDI recorder / looper, and while I might transpose an entire pattern, I never change my zoom level or want to edit individual notes. Accidentally deleting everything in a region by pressing a 1-8 number button is something that I do all the time, and it’s a huge bummer when it happens
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I’d like to be able to route MIDI out from one track to another track, so that the “following” track is playing something derived from the “leading” track. Can you add an “Internal” setting to the OUT FX to send MIDI data to an arbitrary track?
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Can you add some way for incoming CV to be routed to arbitrary MIDI (like CC values or pitch bend) for the purposes of recording? Currently we only seem to be able to control a few Hermod features or FX parameters after the fact, but I’d like to be able to use CV to generate MIDI data that I can use while playing, that will be recorded and played back like any other MIDI data. I could buy a separate, external CV-to-MIDI device to do this, but it seems like such a waste since Hermod already has 4 CV inputs. See Is it possible to control pitch (and other arbitrary MIDI CC) via CV while recording?
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Can you add a way for the SCALE FX to allow the color/scale/key parameters, which combine to select a set of “valid notes” for sequence notes to be quantized to, to optionally the note output from another Hermod track? For example, if Track 1 was playing a chord sequence, say C-Eb-G for measure 1, then D-F-A for measure 2, if Track 2’s SCALE FX could use the currently-playing notes from Track 1 as the “valid notes” it could allow for some amazing things! Maybe this would be implemented by adding an option to the OUT FX to route MIDI data into an internal note buffer reserved for FX. For example, if you implemented #3 on this list, in addition to Tracks 1-8 there might also be an option like “FX Buffer” that SCALE FX could use. See Quantize CV input based on a MIDI chord using Hermod
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X+REC doesn’t work when the clock is external, but this is SUCH a useful feature and I don’t see why it’s disabled. Can it be enabled when Hermod is using external clock? I’d imagine that it’s disabled because it also resets Hermod’s “play head” back to the start when the recording is done. But what if it took into account where the playback was, relative to when the X+REC loop began and ended? It shouldn’t have to reset the clock (and honestly, I think this is more intuitive than the current externally-clocked behavior as well, the way it resets the “play head” can be really confusing).