First sorry for my bad english and maybe my idea is difficult to explain.
With Rhythm patterns and Groove patterns you can configure gate, velocity and delay into a pattern for each step seperately. This is great but also a little uncomfortable (sometimes ;-)).
In most little drum machines like Volca Beats you can use a kind of live mode where you play/drum live on an instrument and it is directly recorded to the sequencer. So in Midicake Arp: wouldn`t it be possible to record and transform a live played rythm (One knop on device or external drum pad) to a rythm/groove pattern? This would really help me to create intuitive rythm patterns on the go(groove patterns I don`t use very much). Hopefully my words make any sense.
I suspected it couldn’t fit into the philosophy of the Arp 🙂. Maybe this kind of live recording requires a new kind of live sequencer data structure beside rythm and groove.
This is a great suggestion and would be very helpful when you have an musical idea in your head that you just want to capture. What makes this tricky though is that, while step sequencers (like the Volca Beats) simply capture and play back the recorded sequence, ARP needs to convert what it captures into it's fundamental parameters so that these can be modified and modulated later. I could create a mechanism just to capture a Groove pattern, or a Rhythm pattern, but I think this would offer limited benefit and be quite difficult using ARP's current UI. I will put it on the to do list, to rethink how this might be fitted into ARP. I do have plans for a full record/capture system, but that will take more time.