Analogue-sequencer

Thank you for you r kind reply Colin,

I've been reading thru the manuals of the P3 and one little question 
that pops into my mind: to what extend can you use external 
controller to control the P3? To switch patterns? To Modify 
accumulators and auxes? ...?

Thanks for yor patience ,)
S


--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, "Colin f" <colin@c...> 
wrote:
> sahkopostiosoite wrote:
>  
> > I would have wanted to ask the mailinglist member how have they 
found 
> > the P3 to fuction in live situations. Does the P3 carry the 
emphasis 
> > on repetitive or preprogrammed stucture in a song, or is one 
able to 
> > change the course of the song even if it would had a prearranged 
> > structure? (I hope I make some sense in my question ,)
> 
> P3 is primarily a live performance instrument.
> There are intentionally only limited facilities to prearrange a 
track, with
> the emphasis placed instead on creating the parts of a track from 
groups of
> patterns. Then you perform your track by manually selecting these 
different
> parts, muting and un-muting patterns, editing patterns on the fly, 
or using
> the knobs to dynamically modify patterns using effects pre-
assigned to the
> knobs in each pattern.
> 
> If you like, you can arrange the parts of a track in a logical 
progression,
> and use part repeat counts with all parts chained to create a 
prearranged
> track, but that doesn't seem like much fun ;-)
> 
> Blixton wrote:
> 
> > are people using the p3 with samplers? Do you suggest using it 
w/ a 
> > sampler? How are they being used w/ samplers?
> 
> I don't use my sampler much at all, never really got into it, but 
I don't
> treat it any differently from a synth.
> Except with loops maybe, but you can set up a pattern with a 
single tied
> note for the length the pattern, that could trigger a loop in time 
with the
> rest of your patterns.
> 
> Cheers,
> Colin f