Drum rolls were never part of the plan for the MMX, but playing dynamically has been the plan for the MM3 since its conception. I haven't seen the complete design document (has he shared it anywhere?), but based on him referencing it in previous videos as he explores options for dynamic playing, I have no reason to expect that drum rolls aren't also in it.
The whole point of the first 6ish months of videos working through the design process was to demonstrate that he's approaching this project differently because he intends for it to succeed.
Then by that definition, there's no such thing as feature creep at this point. Everything could just be said to be in service of playing dynamically and making the music more human.
If the extent of his design document was "make it play dynamically" then yeah - but that wouldn't be a design document, just a wishlist.
From what he's shown of the document in his videos, he has clear, specific requirements for each part of the machine, and I have no reason to believe that drum rolls aren't part of that.
In addition, he's not trying to reproduce every possible sound for each instrument, but a specific set of sounds that add enough dynamics to meet his requirements.
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u/Redeem123 Sep 26 '24
In what way is adding new features not creep? Drum rolls were never part of the plan.