Analogue-sequencer

>>I would like to do sequences as those as I use to do in th MC -
202 , please Colin!!  any clue advanced users?  I mean withouth using 
ties  or changes in the 16-32th etc.. I mean   -- -- -- -------- --
  ,just listen to it..<<

I used to use my mc202 a great deal. my only complaint (apart from 
the no-battery-backup thing) was that you had to make the two 
channels the same length, so we often had a calculator near it, & 
would multiply the lengths together & fill the memory with copies of 
each loop up to their mathematical product.
e.g. if there was a four note line & a seven note line, the four note 
one would go in seven times & vice versa, to make it loop 
continuously at 28 notes.
but it was a bit crap at recording from the keyboard input- the 
quantizer was a bit twitchy & used to get the high notes wrong. I got 
very frustrated tryng to write into it from a tb303- it didn't like 
that very much. you'd think roland would've had that working, but the 
two boxes looked like they came from different planets, let alone 
different designers. 

actually, I still use it sometimes, free-running & with a lot of long 
slow notes in it. sounds like a mad drugged guest keyboardist.

what you want to do, probably, is a combination of step-record & live-
record with the p3 playing a playlist rather than a single pattern. 
obviously, you'd enable ties in this mode too.
does the p3 capture note lengths (gate time) in live-input modes? 
can't remember....
hmm....

btw, did you ever try that bit of software that someone wrote, to 
convert midi files into wavs that the 202 would load? mad... I still 
have the original data tape for mine- it's got "clair de lune" on it, 
so you can hook the 202 up to a moog & pretend to be tomita. fab. 

duncan.