Analogue-sequencer

> Can you mount a power supply inside the rack mount case. In the Kit 
> pictures, it looks like there might be room. Has anyone done 
> this (USA 120v 
> supply).

I think there should be plenty room.
The reason I use a wall wart supply is because it means exemption from a
number of regulatory tests and certification requirements that mains powered
equipment needs. Plus it's a little cheaper.
 
> Colin stated in an early post to analog-sequencer that he was 
> not going to 
> support others writing code for the P3 (or in effect that). 
> Any chance you 
> might change your mind Colin?

P3 will remain closed source for a number of reasons.
First is that I'm trying to make a living from it, and though I like to
believe most people honour 'not for commercial use' clauses, I know very
well that a small minority don't give a toss, and would happily run off kits
or complete units for sale without contributing anything to the development
cost.
Second is that although many of the ideas in P3 have come from other users,
they all get filtered through me in a way that I hope maintains a degree of
consistency. Open source projects have a tendency to branch off in a
thousand different directions, and P3 is aimed more at people who want to
make music than people who want to futz around with software.
Another reason is that there are 14,000 lines of C in the P3 source, and
it's undergone a lot of optimisation over time to reduce the size and fit
more in. A lot of this makes it very difficult to follow unless you already
know what the code is doing.
 
> The data input and MIDI control of the P3 are VERY 
> impressive. The only 
> major feature of the Schrittmacher, that makes it worth 
> looking at, is the 
> different row lengths for note and velocity data.

Those are interesting features, but I'm not sure how many P3 people actually
miss the ability to do that simply.
Beyond a certain level of complexity, tricks like that all tend to start
just sounding random, and you can do that easily enough.
I could have put in a different pattern length for each row, but decided
that would probably just complicate things more than necessary for the
majority of people who don't use such features.
If I come to do a sequencer in the Schrittmacher price range, you can be
sure it will do a lot more than that ;-)

Best regards,
Colin Fraser
Sequentix Music Systems Ltd
http://www.sequentix.com