Analogue-sequencer

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:25:07 -0600 (CST), blip <bleep@waste.org>
wrote:

>um, no. :) but it certainly is pretty. it's wonderful to hear something
>like that... to hear it evolve and progress while keeping everything
>melodically and harmonically related... that's the beauty of the P3, it
>allows for *musical* improvisation with a sequencer... how lovely.

Something I always wanted and now I have it. Life is good sometimes.

>here's a question... is there any way of treating rhythms the way note
>data is treated? i looked through the aux events list that colin posted,
>and there's all kinds of stuff about changing the note and controller
>values, but what about things like rhythm and pattern direction? it could
>be something simple like changing the direction of a single pattern at a
>particular step... or shifting by X number of steps upon getting to a
>specific step... you could even have a shift accumulator like the Xpose
>accumulators. shifts could be applied to rhythms, note data, controller
>data, or whatever...

Well, it's up to Colin to say what is yet to come but I don't think
anyone will be disappointed with the possibilities once the Aux events
are fully populated. 

>i don't have a p3 yet, so there may already be ways to do this kind of
>thing that i don't know about... are there?

There are ways to grab events from other tracks already. So, for
example, you might have one track with no active steps at all. It
plays but no notes are heard. Then you get clever and tell it to grab
its gates from another track. That other track might have gaps or it
might play in a random direction so that the gates are not grabbed
predictably. Suddenly your track plays but the steps that become
active are determined elsewhere. And believe me this is a very simple
example of what is possible.... 8-)

Paul
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