Analogue-sequencer

on 18-02-2004 12:38, Paul Nagle at softroom@btinternet.com wrote:

Bloody hell! How many smokes did you have before figuring this out?

:-))))

You are right, this machine gives the person handling it lots and lots of
room to be creative! Cool Paul!

Boele

> List's been quiet for a while so I thought I'd tell you about
> something I discovered that is cool
> 
> I recently incorporated my Sherman Filterbank into my live setup
> (processing the Vermona PerFourmer to give me a little more variety
> from its smooth Moog tones). The Sherman has an odd MIDI
> implementation but the P3 is really well suited to doing stuff
> flexibly and, with a bit of lateral thinking, I soon found a way to
> accomplish what I wanted. I thought it might serve as an example that
> you might enjoy - if not, delete me!
> 
> To explain further - the Sherman's envelopes are designed to be
> triggered via audio signals. However, this function can be overriden
> by sending it a couple of (specific) MIDI notes. The envelopes may
> then be triggered by sending it two different MIDI notes each time you
> want each of them to fire.
> 
> So to sequence the Sherman's envelopes at the same time as the track
> for which I am generating notes to be processed, I need to do the
> following:
> 
> * Create a track for the Sherman with all its notes set to F4. (this
> triggers the Sherman's ADSR)
> * Create an Aux note for every note pitched at A4 (abs) to trigger the
> AR.
> * Set X to ON for every note to prevent transposes switching off the
> note triggering by accident.
> * Set all the gates to OFF.
> 
> What's this you say? It won't play!
> Well, now you must set another Aux event to grab all Gates from the
> track playing the synth (the one passing through the Sherman). Voila -
> when the synth plays, the Sherman plays. Nice tight envelopes, even if
> with a slow attack from the synth - something not possible with audio
> triggering.
> 
> So far I've used two auxes (abs note and gate grab). I have two left
> that I can use to either tinker with the MIDI controllable parameters
> OR I could automatically switch off the audio triggering.
> Remember I mentioned that this required a couple of MIDI notes to be
> sent initially to tell the Sherman to expect MIDI-only triggering?
> Well, I could have a couple of steps of another Aux send these out as
> abs notes then I could turn them off manually. Or I could do something
> clever using the fact that Aux D has an accumulator.
> 
> Now supposing this accumulator could be told to reach a certain limit
> and then stay at that limit? We could make sure the first time it
> played it sent our notes and that subsequent passes would place the
> notes way out of range and stay there, playing no further part. There
> are other ways of doing this too - but that's just food for thought.
> 
> Actually I'd probably be quite happy doing it manually just once each
> power up and using the auxes for groovy filter tweaks. I only
> mentioned this option because it's an example of just how flexible
> this little beast is.
> 
> Tell me if I should shut up or if you like this kinda stuff.. 8-)
> 
> Paul
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