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It would be great if we can tweak certain parameters of the samples, for e.g. amplitude (level) or other sample related parameters. The TR-808 sample pack also has various versions of the instrument which we should also be able to pick.

While the TR-808 samples are awesome, and you can re-create TONS of beats with it, we might want to allow a custom samples pack and instruments. For e.g. even being able to use Sonic Pi's drum samples would be a great. I would also want to use external samples for even more fun!

For existing Sonic Pi drum samples, we might consider a slightly different implementation via sonic_beats() where you could create your own abbreviations to the existing samples.

For external packs, we could share some logic that currently maps TR-808 instruments to particular sample files, but we would need to generalize this to accept any custom mapping and sample directory/files.

While it is great we can specify the sequence of patterns to play with indices, it would be nice if we can name them so it's easier to recall. For e.g. instead of 0, we could name the first pattern "A" or "Verse 1".

You might sometimes want to have multiple versions of the same instrument to either play different patterns, timing, or amplitude. For e.g. I would love to be able to play a drum n bass sound that has 2 snares:

CH x-x-|x-x-|x-x-|x-x-
SD ----|---x|-x--|----
SD ----|x---|----|x---
BD x---|----|--x-|----

Perhaps we can have multiple entries of the same instrument with different parameters.

While it's nice to work with just the 16note single measure, we might also want to handle multiple measures especially if you want to compose a longer sequence of beat grids.

Now that GitHub can render a video file this project is well suited for adding video examples.