Multiple Sync Sources
When I heard of the ARP, I salivated at the thought of four arps in a box. I had been using two separate boxes arpeggiating data and struggled with getting them to play nicely together. Alas, the ARP is only capable of listening to a single source of data for all of the internal arpeggiators to listen to. Disappointed, I opted to try and work around this limitation. I feel I've given it a fair shake, but I still am unable to achieve the results desired. Hence, I'm asking if a slight modification could be made.
Currently, the Global Menu in Set-Menu allows for a Sync to be selected that gets routed to all four arps. I propose adding an additional feature to the MIDI Out button which could set the source of data for that particular arp. I know it would be confusing, but a second press of MIDI Out could call a MIDI Sync In for each arp. Default would be G, for global which is set as is currently implemented via the Set-Menu button. But, it could then be modified per arp to a particular channel - different than the global setting.
For example, the Global Menu could have Sync set to channel 5, with the four arps set to:
ARP 1 = G
ARP2 = G
ARP3 = 7
ARP4 = 13
This would result in the box responding to data on three different MIDI channels (5, 7, & 13).
This would greatly break down the barriers I'm currently banging my head against in using this fantastic Midicake ARP device.
Thank you for your consideration.
I definitely wouldn't want to call this "sync", because that implies (and is standard terminology for) clock-related concepts (which is not channelized and thus cannot work the way you're describing). Perhaps it could be called "live source" or something more clearly related to the ideas that it's note-related.