Analogue-sequencer

Hi Colin,
I'm just currious if you still think of the R3 software version once 
in a while. I don't wanna push you for my P3 will keep me busy these 
days, and I don't got the money for my second P3 components. 
But I got some problems with the step sequencer of my jomox X base. 
The push buttons don't react when I touch them, I really have to hit 
or push them real hard to (de)activate them, so live jamming is no 
possibility anymore, and that's what I always did! 
The P3 works really nice with the Jomox, but now I use one track for 
the bass, one for the snare, and two tracks for the hihats, and I 
want to use another track for the bass for it's really wicked to 
play the bassdrum with 2 tracks from the P3, one track 4/4 and one 
in triplets. So far so good, but I also got 3 mono synths and an 8 
channel analogue drum box, the syncussion DRM1. 
So I got a question: Is it possible to set a sort of Force to Scale 
each track, but with a special resolution, so when you twiggle a 
knob on the lowest row it chooses between 4 preprogrammed notes like 
C1-D1-E1-F1. So on track 1 you can only play these notes, and on 
track 2 you can play: G1-A1-B1-C2, for example, while you can play 
all notes in track 3?
Or is it possible, maybe for the R3 version, that track 1 hides 4 
tracks, one track for only C1 notes, one for D1, one for E1, and one 
for F1, and that you can toggle, switch between these tracks with 
the function knob. So you won't use the lower row of knobs to give 
the note value, cause u can toggle between the 4 preprogrammed notes 
with the function knob, or is this not possible because the track 
gets polyphone this way? 
I hope you understand what I mean, and,
Cheers,
Roel

> I'm just currious if you still think of the R3 software version once 
> in a while.

All the time... I just haven't found time to do much about it.
Will definitely try to get it moving soon, as I really do need it
myself.

> So I got a question: Is it possible to set a sort of Force to Scale 
> each track, but with a special resolution, so when you twiggle a 
> knob on the lowest row it chooses between 4 preprogrammed notes like 
> C1-D1-E1-F1. So on track 1 you can only play these notes, and on 
> track 2 you can play: G1-A1-B1-C2, for example, while you can play 
> all notes in track 3?
> Or is it possible, maybe for the R3 version, that track 1 hides 4 
> tracks, one track for only C1 notes, one for D1, one for E1, and one 
> for F1, and that you can toggle, switch between these tracks with 
> the function knob. So you won't use the lower row of knobs to give 
> the note value, cause u can toggle between the 4 preprogrammed notes 
> with the function knob, or is this not possible because the track 
> gets polyphone this way? 

The basic design of R3 is that each pattern will have 16 steps for 16
instruments, each step with a velocity value, on/off status, and
possibly some other bits like flam.
The 16 instruments in a pattern will map to 16 midi channels and note
numbers defined in a kit.
So you might define kit 1 as notes C1, D1, E1, F1 and so on, on channel
10.
Then assigning kit 1 to pattern 1, you will be able to select each of
those notes on every step, and have them all trigger with a different
velocity. The idea of kits is that you can quickly assign a different
set of instruments to the same pattern to see how it sounds.
There will be a number of tracks so that you can overlay patterns on top
of each other, and access to instrument mutes for each track, so that
each of the instruments in the current kit for that track can be
individually turned on or off.

Or that's the plan, anyway...
I really should make a start on a test build at least - all I have so
far is a skeleton program with tempo generation etc.
When I come up with P4, it'll be nice for people to have something to
use their P3 hardware for ;-)

Cheers,
Colin f

> The basic design of R3 is that each pattern will have 16 steps for 
16
> instruments, each step with a velocity value, on/off status, and
> possibly some other bits like flam.
> The 16 instruments in a pattern will map to 16 midi channels and 
note
> numbers defined in a kit.
> So you might define kit 1 as notes C1, D1, E1, F1 and so on, on 
channel
> 10.
> Then assigning kit 1 to pattern 1, you will be able to select each 
of
> those notes on every step, and have them all trigger with a 
different
> velocity. The idea of kits is that you can quickly assign a 
different
> set of instruments to the same pattern to see how it sounds.
> There will be a number of tracks so that you can overlay patterns 
on top
> of each other, and access to instrument mutes for each track, so 
that
> each of the instruments in the current kit for that track can be
> individually turned on or off.


Wow, sounds wonderfull, I'm really looking forward to it!
Cheers,
Roel