Analogue-sequencer

>>Timebase conversion from linear time to a preset tempo clock would be a
>>fairly complex bit of coding, and not something there is scope for in the
>>remaining space in P3 I'm afraid.

Colin,

I think ive mentioned it before, but i cant find the conclusion -

I know that the concept of song position is not so relevant to the P3
itself, but there are multitrack instances where it is nice to 'jam' to a
pre-recorded loop.

At present, so far as im aware, there is no way to do this without slaving
the P3 - cubase / nuendo etc dont sync to clock, acid 'pretends' it does,
but not in a useful way, possibly logic does, but im not sure...

Would it be possible to allow the user to set totally arbitrary loop start
and end points that the P3 then outputs the MTC for?

eg. i go to the relevant page in the P3 menus, set my start point in bars
and beats, and the same with my end point.

now every time i hit 'run' on the P3 the internal MTC counter is reset to
the user configured start point whereby it then starts counting until it
reaches the 'end' point, and then loops back to outputing the MTC start
frame, etc.etc..

this looping is *not* the P3s play mode, and dosnt affect the P3s playing in
any way at all.  its *purely* extra data being sent out of the OUT port, in
order to allow the external sequencers to sync properly.

the concept, to me at least, seems pretty simple, and user friendly, but
obviously i know, well, zero about the amount of code needed for something
like that?

Julian