Analogue-sequencer

>>Anyway, I was wondering if there were a way to single step notes in using a keyboard?<<

I always wanted a sequencer to be able to do this. & hold several steps at once to enter the same note (from a keyboard) onto all of them.
I suggested it to the guy that built the mobius, & never heard back from him. dammit. one day I might get around to building a true (non-cpu) analogue step-sequencer that works this way, using the switches to "open" memory locations to input from the CV from an attached keyboard. imagine the sequencer stepping through 8 or 16 little circuits that were basically the same as the "hold" part of a regular analogue monosynth's "sample-&-hold" section between the oscillator & the keyboard. easy. I have the circuit drawn out somewhere.

anyway.

this last trip to the US, I was mostly occupied with the "skip" function. building riffs up "blind" & then revealing them by unskipping the steps, while skipping the notes that have been playing, & keeping the whole thing at 8 steps duration throughout. or not. :-)

paul will tell me to create masks & use accumulators to do this, but I actually find it more interesting, not to mention having a better idea of what's going to happen next, to do it all manually.

if I had one wish of the p3 (too late now, anyway), it would be to have two or three rows of the step switches. then we'd be able to edit two or three patterns simultaneously, with some sort of semi-automatic delegation of the knobs to each row. encoders would be better for this, obviously.
somewhere between the p3 & a maq, in fact. :-)

I really should use the notron a bit more.

duncan.