Analogue-sequencer

--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, "Colin f" <colin@c...> wrote:
>   
> > One thing I am wondering about, how is the 
> > P3 "analogue"?
> 
> P3 is 'analogue' in the sense that you primarily edit the patterns using analogue inputs, 
> i.e. knobs. The internal operation, aside from the multiplexing of the 34 knob voltages
> into the analogue to digital convertor, is all digital. The output is pure midi, unless you 
> plug in a midi to CV convertor.

I was guessing as much, but I still had to hope. Still, I do have some MIDI gear here which 
would be very happy about the P3 as it is.

> When it was only capable of sending a maximum of 8 midi note meesages at any one 
> instant, the 8ms maximum midi latency was very hard to detect. Now that it can send 
> 4 CCs for each track as well as the notes, it is possible to hit the midi bandwidth pretty 
> hard, so the user needs to be aware of that if he's really laying it on thick. A lot of the 
> time though, sloppy timing attributed to midi is really happening elsewhere - in under-
> spec'ed synth CPUs, badly written OS driver layers etc.

Yes, and in my clumsy playing! >;]P Now that my garage studio is coming together, and I 
am finishing some analog panels, I worry a little about coordinating sequences on digital 
and analog gear simultaneously.
 
> Sometime soon I hope to get started on a next-generation main board to use in a big-
> brother to P3. The general plan is to make this board backward compatible with the P3 
> UI. It would support multiple midi outputs (potentially able to run one or more of them 
> using a higher speed proprietary interface to drive a dedicated CV output module) and 
> be available as an upgrade for exsiting P3 owners who felt an insatiable need for more 
> sequencing power. Its release will depend on the commercial success of P3 though...

Sounds interesting! Whereas I do wish you every success with the P3 endeavor, I get 
cynical about the effects of commerce on scientific progress. What is typically allowed to 
succeed in the marketplace is not that which is best, but rather that which is easiest. 
Luckily for us, it sounds like the P3 is easy to use! I will certainly be persuing this.

Thank you for your efforts, and your reply!
CJ