Perhaps, but maybe we could use some of the buttons on the side of the knobs? Buttons 3-4-5 are used to select which row is active, but they can also be selected by touching the actual row. Like it could be that 3 = increment page, 4 = decrement page, 5 = go back to home page (page 1).
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But if you’d then be on page 1 it would require 3 button presses to go to page 4. Even more so when there are more pages. So that wouldn’t be quicker to navigate? As it is now, all pages require just 2 button presses.
This is true; however I am making a concerted effort to have presets with most of the main performance controls on one or two pages only. 
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Yes, it that case it would be a good solution. I think it would be a nice feature if all the buttons and knobs could be assigned by the user. That way you could make it work the way you like it and i could work out my own prefered template. Button 6 and 7 for instance I barely ever touch. If I could, I would change those to a function I use more (increasing and decreasing of the preset number of the Arturia VST’s comes to mind).
So I wouldn’t want the method you describe to replace the current way it works, because that wouldn’t work well for me. But if more flexibility is introduced, I’d welcome that.
All that still points to gesture based navigation as the best solution 
(swiping)
Maybe a bit off topic, but I’ve read somewhere that Apple has a few patents in that regard? I believe that is the reason why some of the user interaction with the new Akai MPC’s is somewhat cumbersome at times. Apparently Akai had to work around those patents. Mind, I don’t know for sure if that’s true. But if it is it also might have some influence on possible gesture implementation on the E1.
I think the forward/backward jumping is really helpful to get faster to the next/previous page, i.e. LFO to ENV… I also use mostly three pages all the time and to always have to press two buttons across the electra for that is not very handy.
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This is similar to what i have suggested 2 times. @jhh @martin
I do not like the current way to select pages so much. with these buttons it will be more intuitive for me.
there are many option with button 3,4,5
4 could toggle rows, 3, 6 could scroll to rows and then pages.
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I keep an eye on the thread, I read it, I think about that. This is actually one of the reasons that lead me to making bigger changes in the upcoming 3.0. Once I get to the buttons / UI part of the work on 3.0, I will actively discuss this with you guys.
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After using the fast page switching via MIDI a lot, a cool feature would be to see 6 page names of a Electra page row with the actual position highlighted in the bottom bar of the Electra. This helps when cycling through the pages from left to right etc.
At the moment the bottom bar only shows the preset title plus the actual page…
The feature would be like this:
Main Page | Sub 1 | Sub 2 | Sub 3 | Extra 4 | Sub 5 | Sub 6
The titles would switch when entering the 6 bottom pages.