Analogue-sequencer

>>stick to the TASCAM standard way of wiring the breakout cable so that
lazy people can buy the cables off the shelf?<<

that's a very good idea. making up your own breakout cable is probably not beyond folks who've built their own P3s, say, but not everyone would be comfortable with a d-type.
as regards the timing... midi's no use for percussion sounds, even with a dedicated midi port, because of its serial nature. if it ran faster, 10x faster, maybe. or if some of the extraneous messages could be removed... a channel-10-only port perhaps, with no CCs.....

I'm going to try the cirklon (when I get one!) via an alesis drum interface, see what that behaves like.

d.