After playing with RND(NTS-1), it became apparent that the patch editor is going to need some way of sending MIDI NOTEON and NOTEOFF commands from the computer. I tried to use characters to draw a horizontal keyboard, 2 keys per character. I was not happy with the visual results.
Eventually the characters were rotated and used to create a keyboard Icon where the keys were orientated vertically. The improvement was due more to its orientation then it was due to it being displayed a