Thesys Feature Request: Restraints

[Greg Houston]

Set maximum velocity, a velocity limit. For some instruments a 127 velocity note is going to create a lot of distortion and makes tabbing through presets somewhat nightmarish.

The ability to set some MIDI CC as off limits. Some of the presets will actually start rapidly changing the currently loaded preset in Reaktor. Some will change the master volume.

Set note range. Presets can haphazardly hit keyswitches.

Lock Root Key. Similar to setting a note range this can keep presets from whacking on keyswitches.

[RyGuy]

+1 to all of that. I have a similar feature requests for a restraint. There should be a "lock" for each individual slot, so you can keep some spaces the same, while still getting to randomize the rest of the section(s). Most of the time the random button gives you unusable stuff without tweaking, but if you are able to toggle a lock on each slot you wanted to keep, it would make the random features 100 X More Useful! This way the randomizers could keep building on each other reaching amazing results much, much quicker!! I love using Thesys to sequence my Bass Station II, and this feature would allow me to create new interesting bass lines on the fly, so i never have to stop jamming.

Heres an example of how i use it, sorry if were not supposed to post links.

https://twitter.com/RyGuySoFly89/media (top video)

[HiEnergy]

While we're at the topic of locking and restraining...
What about a musically sensible scale restraint?
Perhaps by adding a chord types "scale restrained 3" and "scale restrained 4" besides major, minor etc.
For example in C major the "scale restrained 4" chord over the note of b would be bmin7b5 (b-d-f-a), for the scale of G major it would be bmin7 (b-d-f#-a)
for "normal" music dealing with modal (western) scales, this should be the preferred chord type.

Would this feature be feasible and sensible?