Yes, it’s a shame that the basics haven’t been addressed - the sequence editor.
The only reason you even need the phrase function is because you don’t have a Buzz Sequence Editor, which allows you to use every pattern as a ‘phrase’, as it were- except in Buzz you can actually give them NAMES and see how long they are in the sequence editor…
Okay, so if I have a phrase on one key, how do I read the name?
And that’s completely irrelevant - how do I see the name in the main pattern editor, where I need to see it?
Afta8, have you ever tried Buzz?
THIS is what we need, not more hidden, obscure representations of patterns and phrases…
You could say that to everybody who requests certain functions in any DAW that they use.
No DAW came with my audio card, would you care to elaborate? LOL.
Yes, one of them does have a better sequencer, it’s called Buzz, but apparently the Pattern Matrix is set in stone and cannot be questioned here. So while the devs spend their time producing loads of things which aren’t necessary (especially in this age of VSTs), we all work around the inherent design flaws of the pattern matrix and pretend it isn’t a problem.
Then we have people like you who want to silence dissent, rather than discuss simple aspects of the user interface. Why do they scare you so much?