How to enable it. This is relatively easy to solve: the polarity control could be extended. Right half of pot gives you attenuated unipolar output. Left half gives you attenuated bipolar output.
How to represent that a segment is being attenuated. The LEDs already have to portray a ton of information, and representing something, especially something with a continuous value seems quite difficult.
How to save it. Since the state of this would be background parameter (not directly reflected by pot or slider), it needs to be stored. This would require at least an extra byte of information per segment to get any kind of granularity.
How to transmit it. This would require a substantial addition to the chaining logic and is probably a non-starter. So, if this is going to be done at all, it will almost certainly only be for single segments.
There are currently a couple workarounds:
Use a looping yellow segment (in advanced mode). Downside is that this eats another segment. Regardless, I'm inclined to suggest this path given that the idea behind Stages is combining relatively simple, orthogonal segments together to create more complex behavior.
Use Harmonic Oscillator mode (either 5 or 6), and reduce the frequency range down to middle or low. This gives you 6 LFOs with attenuatable output. Downside, of course, is that the entire module is now LFOs.
Because of the difficulties around storage and representation, I'm inclined to not include this behavior, but I'm open to suggestions of possible implementations.
A popular feature request is for the ability to attenuate the output of segments. This would be especially useful for LFOs and for random segments.
Requested by saiteron, Squallaz, and loreamon.
There are several big difficulties:
There are currently a couple workarounds:
Because of the difficulties around storage and representation, I'm inclined to not include this behavior, but I'm open to suggestions of possible implementations.