Analogue-sequencer

Atom Smasher wrote:

>maybe you're the man for another sequencer i've been dreaming up in my 
>head. for performing live techno/dance music, it's hard to find a 
>sequencer better than a small army of MMT-8s. if someone made an 
>"MMT-8000"... more memory, more patterns, tactile buttons, solid OS, 
>plenty of mutable tracks, etc... i think i'd put that higher on _my_ 
>priority list than a P3.
>  
>
Perhaps you need to understand how cool a P3 is before deciding an MMT-8 
could be more suitable for dance music. Unless you think unmuting tracks 
is all the interactivity you really need... :)

>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...?

It won't replace a keyboard controller for most people and as for 'meant 
to be used for percussion', appearances can be deceptive. In the case of 
the P3, very much so: there's a lot tucked away in there for live 
improvisation, weird, evolving studio stuff and explorations like you 
never found before. Like a lot of powerful tools, it doesn't necessarily 
show  you all it can do in a few days, or weeks, or even months! If 
you've used others sequencers like the ARP or Moog or the Polymorph or 
Notron, you may have an inkling of the possibilities.

Paul (former MMT8 owner).

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