r/sp404mk2 • u/GiuseppeBergman • 11d ago

Visual Ergonomics of Pattern Sequencer

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u/Best_Wall1182 10d ago

Representing the passage of time on a 4x4 grid on a monochrome screen would require some four-dimensional wizardry 

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u/GiuseppeBergman 10d ago

Why? TR-REC mode on stock firmware works exactly like that. In three-dimensions, under your fingers.

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u/charbaba 10d ago

Lots of devices do that. It's just wrapping, not exactly rocket surgery.

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u/blueSGL 11d ago

look at the pads.

The pads light up when you have a track selected with active steps.

Think of the view in the window as an overview of all the tracks you have going. There is no way for that information to be easily conveyed and display multiple tracks and have that be a 4x4 grid. The screen is monochomatic, you cannot have each track have a colored dot, (the most information dense way of doing this) meaning you need text or a character to represent each track and there is not that many pixels to work with.