New delays suggestion

[The Institute]

for sake of argument, say you had two different delay effects, a "long delay" and a "short delay". why can't each delay effect have its own node, so every instrument using the "long delay" goes through the long delay node, and every instrument using "short delay" goes through the short delay node? i guess i don't understand why it needs to be done by instrument.

if there does need to be just one delay node every instrument uses, i have a suggestion that would make delay more useful, and that would add almost no clutter at all to the interface:

- every instrument could run through the delay (or not) as it does now, and when you turn on delay on an instrument, everything would work exactly as it does now
- but, using markers, we could allow users to change how that master delay works. so we could add a marker option called "delay type" (almost exactly like the new "effects" option) which would open up a dropdown with delay options: 1/4 note delay, 2/3 note delay, 3/8 note delay, etc, or other names like "short delay", "syncopated delay", "triplet delay", "medium delay", "ping pong delay", "long delay", if you want names that will be easily understood by people who don't know much music theory. when a marker is inserted into a sequence changing the delay type, then the delay would use a new delay time (for every instrument running through the delay)

that wouldn't affect existing sequences at all, and users who didn't care to adjust delay wouldn't even notice anything had changed.