Analogue-sequencer

i was just imaginating if i would be in your position colin,
every day feature requests that can or canot be fullfilled...
it would annoy me a lot i think.
and its really not usual that there is such a close contact between a 
company and
all its customers.

so i want to clarify that if i have an idea to improve the p3,
there is no frustration or any negative thought if its not gonna be 
implemented,
cause the product was worth its price since ever.


regards
andreas




Colin Fraser schrieb:
>
>
> > my idea came from the mpc 2000, where you can shift the timing + and -
> > wouldnt it be possible to play notes earlier ?
>
> In something like an MPC, patterns are stored as a MIDI event list, with
> timestamps on the events.
> So moving an event forward or backward in time is just a case of adding or
> subtracting a certain value from the timestamp before you get to the time
> that event occurs.
>
> P3's pattern data structure is a fixed array of 16 steps by the number of
> row values - note, velocity, delay, length, status bits and auxes.
> The start time of each step is hardcoded to a certain division of the 
> master
> clock, and because things like aux events can modify pattern values
> dynamically, P3 doesn't necessarily know what the next step is going to be
> until the tick before it gets there.
> By which time, if you have a negative delay on that step, you're too late.
>
> Possibly I could just treat the maximum negative delay as zero delay, 
> where
> all notes are delayed by a default amount anyway.
> But that could potentially add a lot of complexity in the handling of
> pattern timing, and cause subtle changes in the way events interact that
> would either seem wrong and be complex to fix, or would do strange and un
> predicatble things to existing patterns.
> In short, it could take a huge amount of effort to see if I could add it,
> without any guarantee of success.
> While I'm happy to continue adding features to P3, there's a limit to the
> amount of effort I can put in.
>
> You can be sure, if I ever get the next generation sequencer into
> production, negative delay will be in there...
>
> Best regards,
> Colin Fraser
> Sequentix Music Systems Ltd
> http://www.sequentix.com <http://www.sequentix.com>
>
> 
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