We enjoyed Eindhoven a lot, good to meet interesting people and hear good music! It was our first live concert, we played over 2hours. and we made a double live album of it :-) (spam :-)) http://www.ambientlive.com/albums/dsm_elive.htm Maybe we play next year in Great Brittain. --- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, "duncan" <ferrograph@...> wrote: > > >>hello, here a video from yesterday evening. I am now working, as you > can see, with 2 maq 16/3. but they are awfull to program for long > interesting and ever changing sequences. so I am looking for a new > step sequencer to add at my setup.<< > > blimey, you've changed the studio a bit since that guitar workout from > '06! :-) > > agreed re the maq- they only work for longer compositions if you are > constantly changing- > > the pitches. this is what they really lend themselves to- hands-on, > with both hands! & playing through some sort of force-to-scale > mechanism. we used to use special patches in a sampler, then custom > tuning tables in the emu proteus modules, & now the p3 is used to > process (& sometimes capture) the maq's output. > > the row lengths. we use an external midi controller to adjust the > loop-point of each row. we don't alter the start point often, as it > can get hard to remain syncopated. > > the timbres. use midi controllers & the maq itself to alter anything > you can address by midi-CC. > > try chaining the rows together to make longer sequences. we have done > this a few times, but I noticed that the maq will tend to crash if any > row in a chain is in random mode... > > you could also set the two maqs up to interfere with each other. I > have three of them- I really ought to try that next time two of them > are in the same studio.... :-) > > but yes, you need to get a p3! it has the immediacy of the maq, if you > set it up right (i.e. knob-grab events, keyboard input...) but the > depth of... well.... actually I don't think there is another machine > in hardware or software that achieves the same as the p3. > > duncan/r.m.i. > > (p.s. did you enjoy the eindhoven experience?) >
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Re: sequencers!!!!!!!!!!!!
2008-11-16 by von.haulshoven
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