Analogue-sequencer

jimcombsus wrote:

>No, not that bank!
>
>I'm using my P3 for solo work, band work, and live work and have
>gotten to the point where I'm having to regularly shuttle my banks off
>and on to memory from sysex files on my Mac computer in order to work
>with the applicable banks.
>
>I'm wondering what others do in order to manage a number of banks
>larger than the internal memory will allow? 
>  
>
I tend to use the 12 bank mode which gives me 12 "songs"; each could 
typically last 20 mins or even longer if I'm in the mood. I have a 
second P3 which can be used for 12 more songs or as additional parts - 
and given the amount of time I can noodle with a single bassline and 
kick pattern, you can imagne I rarely run out of things to play.
Another trick I use is that the second P3 contains 12 songs in tracks 
1-4 and 12 more, quite different ones in tracks 5-8. I ensure these 
parts have different playlists selecting different patterns and 
different keys etc. I also have a different set of drum patterns in my 
electribes. Recently the JIC played a gig of over 7 hours duration - and 
I used approximately half of the material I had "prepared". I also 
reprogram the P3 from scratch as we go, initialising a bank then just 
hitting record and using it like a MIDI looper.

>I wish there was something like a MIDI memory stick that could plug
>into a MIDI port for bank dumps or a Flash ram card that could be used
>for expanding available banks.
>  
>
Yeah, a little compact flash reader with enough native intelligence to 
transmit sysex dumps would be pretty ace. Or one built into the P3 and 
accessed via some cunning additional page from the receive option maybe...

Paul

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