Analogue-sequencer

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> Hans,
>    thanks for taking the time to explain the various differences. I see that the maq 16/3 looks to be quite poor compared to the p3. I only bought it because it was cheap, £200. I saw one sell on ebay (a black limited edition) for over £500 so I thought I'd get it. I will have a play about with it and see. I find the p3 to be a good machine, I can't believe that the maq 16/3 dosen't allow silences on notes or ties. Are you sure you can't have note off per step?
> 
> Ben


Ben

I don´t remember well, I guess in some mode, if you turn all left the knob is like note off, but if you send CV, step will be triggered and something would be heard.

About Duncan, the mode that the knob controls the lenght is totally NON musical, perhaps for random music is Ok, but not for techno as patterns are not quantized so it´s very difficult to exact a half bar, a full bar etc that I know. synced with any TR

I always wanted to have a Notron, but 10 years ago I never found one.  Could you tellthe differences beetwen it and the P3 please?  What it can do that the P3 doesn´t

Hans
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> To: analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com
> From: ferrograph@aol.com
> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:31:47 +0000
> Subject: [analogue-sequencer] III Re: Doepfer MAQ 16/3 worths having it, having a P3?
> 
> 
>>>turn off gates for specific steps on the MAQ. you need to got to one
> of the modes, the mode it turns on in doesn't do it, but you can turn
> off gates for each step if you turn the knob all the way to the right
> in the right mode. it might be PR mode i think.<<
> 
> any of the modes that start with P.... PA1...PA5 or PR1...PR5. the
> difference between these two groups is that PR supports remote
> transpose by incoming midi notes on the same channel as the row in
> question, while PA doesn't.
> 
> (the P stands for "pause" according to doepfer, which they thought
> meant the same as "rest" in their teutonic logical way. there's a
> totally separate mechanism, which crept in at v3 I think, for actually
> "pausing" a row. it can either be one-shot or it can run when another
> row completes, giving up to 48 step sequences.)
> 
> the number is how many octaves the knobs' range is over, & as hans has
> mentioned elsewhere, it's quite a laugh altering this while the
> thing's running, especially if you have some sort of FTS operating.
> this is one example of where the maq & p3 work together well.
> 
> btw, since v1 you can save the default startup setup in a special
> memory. I think it used to be preset 0 when the thing only had three
> memories total, & changed to be preset 1 or 2 when the thing finally
> got 30 memories. but don't quote me... it's been a while. mine always
> wake up the same these days; our methodology with these things is
> quite entrenched now as any of our audience will know.
> 
> as for kraftwerk's involvement- I think what they wanted was a midi
> version of that moog 960 knock-off that someone built for them in the
> 70s. I can't remember the name of it now... klaus schulze had a few of
> them too. I don't think they ever intended for it to be at all
> sophisticated.... I only wish they'd had the imagination to come up
> with something like the p3. thanks heavens colin did. :-)
> 
> for me, there's no question of one being better than the other- I have
> to have both. in fact, two of each, & a spare maq. & a notron. & an
> octopus. & a zeit.
> 
> duncan- surrounded by h/w sequencers.
> 
> 
> 

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