Analogue-sequencer

Colin,

I am presently using an M-Audio Oxygen midi controller to control the
P3.  It has two octaves of keys, and 8 knobs for cc's.  I also have
two Roland portable 4 octave midi keyboards that are usb powered.

Even with the physical limits of 2 and 4 octaves, all three of the
keyboards have dedicated octave transposed switches that allow one to
play any of the 88 notes from the keyboard.  Wouldn't it be great to
hit the transpose-down button twice and two octaves of P3 parameter
select buttons become accessed on keys, and the 8 knobs (found on the
Oxygen) can control stuff like the base and range for random note and
upper features;  I would love to see the "FTS" edit function to be
keyboard programmable (hold down the notes on a particular octave). 
Once programmed, then hit the keyboard transpose-up button back tho
middle c, where the keys will transpose the  sequencer...

With regards to the additional overhead needed to create a user
programmable keyboard map, I would settle for whatever keys that you
choose to map to, Colin.  Vienna Symphony Library patchses have fixed
midi keys that switch between patches in gigstudio.  Once the note
numbers are established, Drum pads and other larger devices can be
patched in, making selection on the fly more physically convenient.