Analogue-sequencer

> I have never enabled remote control on the P3 before but the manual
> indicates by doing this, it's possible to toggle on/off the 
> patterns via
> midi cc.
> 
> Has anyone tried this before? I've been working like a mad 
> man lately ( at
> work right now)  so I won't be able to test this out for 
> myself so I would
> appreciate any experience people has had with this. 

Phil Smillie (half of JIC with Paul Nagle) is a MIDI guitarist, and makes
extensive use of a MIDI foot controller to control his P3 while entering
patterns through his MIDI guitar.
Phil had a fair bit of input into these functions while I was implementing
them, so they work very well if that's the sort of thing you want to do.
I have other remote control features to add on the final TBI list, we'll
see...

> Any difference between the toggle and mute functions via midi CC?

Toggle will mute and active track and unmute a muted track.
Mute will only mute an active track.

Toggle is really intended to be assigned to a switch type control, whereas
mute is intended more for automation where you already know the state of the
track.

To answer your previous question...

> I currently have my P3 slaved to my DAW and every time I 
> press play on the
> DAW the P3 starts. Is there a way to have the P3 start only 
> when manually
> triggered?
> 
> Ideally, I would like to have the P3 setup to trigger 8 
> independent channels
> only when triggered from the DAW and not running all channels
> simultaneously. 

Not sure if you mean to start out with the tracks muted, and then unmute
them from the DAW.
Remote control would do that.

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