subtopic: love of hardware step sequencers. Confession: I have cheated on the p3. I have also purchased a Shrittmacher. Comment: I love them both. The p3 is way more powerful. The Shrittmacher interface makes it way easier to do certain things. Goal is to try to use them together. The technical exercise for now is, eschewing all musical results ( luckily ) is simply to get a bidirectional communication going. Success. Set up a remote midi channel on the p3, and am transposing events with the Schrittmacher. Simultaneously, the p3 is transposing the events that are transposing it. It sounds terrible, but I deserve another beer. The Schrittmacher is really a fabulous machine. It has nothing like the aux events of the p3, but its main strengths are (off the top of me head): you can view all 16 possible event values on the screen simultaneously. it is fantastically easy to set up tons of tracks very quickly which modulate each other, separate out pitch, velocity, note length, etc, all at different track lengths. This is far easier and quicker to do on it than the p3. the goal is to come up with ways of working with them so that they complement each other, i.e. they really become one machine in my mind. The beer ultimately will not help.
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Technical excercise - confusion to be followed by enlightenment (?)
2005-09-05 by Gene Schwartz