Aha, this feature request creeps back, and it’s not just useful for playing live…
Being restricted to one playback pattern (ie: the very one you’re editing) while you’re editing is very constricting for some of us. This is not a feature request made in jest, it’s fundamental for the composing process! Listening to a completely different portion of your song while entering notes in the pattern that you are working on is a very natural (and useful) composing feature…
Here’s another thread where I got a little, ahem, hot-headed: random other thread about this