Analogue-sequencer

Hi Colin and P3-ers,

Thanks for the replies about entering notes of more than one step length .
I get the impression you agree that music is made with shorter and longer notes :-). Now I don't think it is a very individual request/need I have so I would like to explain what it is and hope to get more votes...

--> The idea is to enter notes with a length of more than 1 step by activating and holding the 'start step' and then pushing the step where it should end, quick and easy.


Here are some examples where this would be very handy.

- You're making the Knight Rider (KIT) bassline, not really hard.., you've found the right notes and timing but they're too short (;-)), right now you have to tie the note, activate the next step and dail in the correct note# or tie and copy/paste each note. The method above would be handier and you can experiment easily to set some notes to 2 and some to 3 steps length to get a more original Knight Rider theme....

- Set up your favourite funky drummer sample (or any drumloop) and make it listen to the P3 and run the same speed. Now you can let the whole loop run with only step 1 activated, lenght 13. To make things more interesting also activate step 7... This can indeed all be done with length 13 but to get even more funky you want to insert spaces between the loop starts and also use another sample of the same loop with different starting point (1st snare?). The creativeness of this standard example would benefit very much from Mobius style note length.

I understand that Colin wants to activate more steps at the same time (as he pointed out this isn't possible on the TR909) but isn't this only usefull when programming drums? I feel that when programming a melody this isn't so important since you listen while it loops and add or remove notes until satisfied..

@Nick: you're right that with muting/unmuting tracks all buttons must be active at all times. There's no tie-ing here, only (un)muting.
@Hans: shall we setup a fund for sending Colin a pie or a nice bottle of something????


--> Ok, people, please speak up and let us know this would be a usefull feature! Do you have more examples? Send them over!


Cheers,
Eric




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Colin Fraser 
  To: analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:40 PM
  Subject: RE: [analogue-sequencer] Re: Longer notes!




  > Correct me if Im wrong please, 
  > but can't you just enter notes and tie them together to get longer 
  > steps?

  Of course you can, but for a very long note, it can mean adding quite a lot
  of ties.
  What's being asked for is a more direct way to do this.
  There is already the quick method for setting ties, where you hold the STEP
  MODE key while activating some ties, and on releasing STEP MODE you jump
  back to GATE - saving the extra presses of STEP MODE. But no quick way to
  set lots of steps to the same note other than Sculpt or realtime record.

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



   

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