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Of course, Welle:Erdball are famous! Never thought they sounded anything similar to krautrock though, nor does the songs you've linked to sound anything like it. How do you mean?

Their production is very uneven. I like some albums a lot, but some are quite crappy. Saw them live in Stockholm a couple of years ago though (Covox and I hung out with hundreds of synth- EBM- and goth-people the whole night – we were the only blonds in the whole venue!), and it was a fucking amazing show!

I'm a long-time krautrock fan. My favourite bands/artists is probably La Düsseldorf, Neu! and Walter Wegmüller. And anything Michael Rother is involved in is bound to be good.

It is funny how many of the original german krautrock bands consisted of seemingly shuffled compositions of just a handful of people.

BBC made a documentary about krautrock last year, called "Krautrock - The Rebirth of Germany". It's a typical TV documentary, but a nice introduction, with interesting interviews with many of the central figures of 70s krautrock.

Wow, amazing update!

I like the play song-options, sounds like a flexible idea. In fact, I like everything you've mentioned in this update

In addition to adding swing/groove, I tend to use delay commands for "grace notes" as well. Just small detail in leads mostly, to make the melody more jazzy somehow. For instance, a fragment of one of my melodies could be like this (D0X = delay note by X ticks. xx = kill note):

00 E-5  --
01 --     --
02 --     --
03 F#5 D03
04 G-5 --
05 --     --
06 xx    --
07 --     --
08 C-5  --
09 --     --
0A --     --
0B --     --
0C xx    --

And then again, if the delay command could be used in combination with the kill note command, that would be great.

Otherwise, in response to your original question, I agree that it would be easier if you could set volume in the pattern editor as well. In what way have you run out of bits to add? Technically hard to implement more commands?

Then another question: How does the pitch bend work? Simply bend up/bend down, or some kind of slide-to-note (legato) command as well?
In some trackers, the legato command can be used not only to make an audible slide to the note, but also to avoid the instrument to re-trigger. So for instance if you have a looping volume envelope, and just for the sake of example, a looping pulse wave modulation as well, it can sometimes be irritating to have the evenlope/pwm loop re-trigger on every new note. Some trackers handle this by removing the instrument number in the editor (or instrument "0"), and as I said, some (though mostly sample-based trackers as far as I know) do it with the slide-to-note command.

Really excited about the project, looking forward to try it hands on

Oh, I've missed this one. Downloading now, looking forward to hear it I like your style!