Analogue-sequencer

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Paul Nagle wrote:

>> 2) how good a job does it do creating 303 style sequences?
>>
> Well, Colin is a tota 303 nut and has put a MIDI out socket on his own 
> 303. When he played some of his own 303 patterns into my P3, I hit 
> record and -hey presto- identical! With careful use of note tie and 
> velocity accents, I find that my 303 clone hits the spot every time; so 
> if you pair up the P3 with an appropriate module, you're totally there. 
> The P3 even adopts some of the cool pattern chaining tricks that 303 
> lovers are familiar with. But it can do way, way more than just give you 
> 8 x 303 sequencers at once...
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http://smasher.org/303/

it would be fun to have a good interface for 303 style sequencing, but in 
the meantime i can do it by hand (on an MC-50mk2)... sometimes it sounds 
like a real 303 sequencer, sometimes it doesn't... either way, it can be 
cool. of course, it would also be nice to have that type of interface for 
all of my other synths that have a mono mode and are capable of legato 
glide.


>> 4) do you find yourselves tending to use the P3 more for percussion 
>> sequencing, 303 style sequencing, or everything else?
>>
> P3-style sequencing personally. The three members of the band I'm in 
> *all* have P3s. My role is lots of wild, morphing, evolving, 
> interactively improvised sequences; Phil uses his mostly as a MIDI 
> routing box-cum-MIDI looper and Andy uses his almost exclusively as a 
> drum machine. I reckon almost every P3 owner uses it slightly 
> differently and the cool thing is that, even though I have been using 
> one for... hell, ages, I still feel there are new things to try, to 
> explore, to stumble across. But I'm a rabid enthusiast, of course and 
> very biased.
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to me, it just ~looks~ like it was meant to be used for percussion. but in 
my previous email, i've come so far as to wonder if it might be a good 
master sequencer for playing live... now, i'm even wondering if i'd 
~really~ need a keyboard controller for interfacing with my modules, or 
can this handle the job, too...?


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