Analogue-sequencer

>>You need the same kind of insanity to buy a Memotron, a new 
digital Mellotron, or even the real thing, when you might as well buy 
a sample library.<<

well, then, I'm insane too. I ordered my octopus within minutes of learning of its existence, & it stands here (upright, for ease of use) near a real mellotron, three notrons, a maq, a P3 & a cirklon.

(oh, & a zeit.)

the announcement, particularly the actual text of it, made me sadder about the demise of genoqs than perhaps is actually necessary. 

for a long time now gabriel & marcel have been absent from the discussions on the forum, & when a few months ago several of us discovered a problem with the midi clock, it was colin who suggested where the problem might be. true to the open-source spirit of the octopus, another user managed to compile a working elf file with the midi clock issue fixed.

the bigger pity is that the machine only really begins to reward the user when hours & hours can be devoted to it. it deserves much better than the way I treat it, as a simple grid-pattern-entry interface. it's quite a bit more than a giant notron- better built, for one thing.
I've never truly got to grips with the layers of hierarchy, & my attempts (early on) to string pages together were problematic. I don't know if they ever fixed the page repeat bug. 

I just hope that the community has enough momentum to keep these few instruments running & useful. I'm not sure. 

but here's a thing- if it hadn't been for colin, I wouldn't be able to do any of these things:

use my octopus in a multi-sequencer set-up
run v2.0 on two mk1 notrons
run my 303 in a midi environment

this is on top of his making the P3 & the cirklon, both of which I spend hours playing (with).

so maybe amanda's got a point..... 

d.