Analogue-sequencer

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:26:24 -0500 (CDT), blip <bleep@waste.org>
wrote:

>to me, this is very live 4 like... well, with the exception of patterns
>that play patterns. the ability to do this would be *extremely* cool in a
>hardware sequencer... but this would require some serious graphical UI...

Not necessarily - KCS had a UI that consisted of a blank Atari screen
until you started some sequences. Then the letter representing that
sequence appeared. KCS went downhill when it got a graphical UI and
slowed down measurably. I'm old fashioned though. 

>another feature that would be great in concert with this is some sort of
>preview function, by which you could preview which pattern you are about
>to drop in... and this could even be a small audio sample, 8-bit, 22kHz
>mono or something... or more realistically, the device could have a sine
>wave osc and some sort of envelope w/a special"preview output" jack... so
>you could preview the pattern with a simple tone before you drop it in...

Hehe, wimp! Drop it in and it it's wrong, fix it. With FTS nothing can
be too wrong and no member of the audience will ever know what you
intended anyway...  8-)

I'm so cavalier I should have a frilly shirt.

Paul
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