Analogue-sequencer

I'm reading all these suggestions about playlist editing and it's getting deeper and deeper by the week. At what point are we gonna lose control or to put it another way at what point are we going to get lost in code and forget what level we're on?? Who is going to be able to remember all this unless there is  dictionary thick manual alongside? I for one can't remember more than a few well used commands during the heat of performance. Is this ringing a bell for anyone else?
kind regards
john duval






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--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, darkstr1746@c... wrote:
> I'm reading all these suggestions about playlist editing and it's 
getting deeper and deeper by the week. At what point are we gonna 
lose control or to put it another way at what point are we going to 
get lost in code and forget what level we're on?? Who is going to be 
able to remember all this unless there is  dictionary thick manual 
alongside? I for one can't remember more than a few well used 
commands during the heat of performance. Is this ringing a bell for 
anyone else?
> kind regards
> john duval

hi John, 
the beauty of a P3 is that you can pretty much go as deep as you 
want. you can use it as a basic 8-track stepsequencer and use parts 
as patterns, forgetting about playlists altogether if you like, or 
you can get as experimental as you want, using different length 
playlists with notes, controllers and aux events for the same track, 
randomness and a lot of other weird stuff..
personally i do most of the 'heavy'-programming in the comfort of my 
studio, and when i do a liveset i mostly only alternate parts, edit 
playlists and do some basic edits to patterns; turning on or off 
controller- or aux event-steps, tieing notes or turning them off, 
that kind of stuff. when i'm just making music at home it can get 
freaky on occasion though...;-)
for me, one of the good things about the P3 is that once you've got 
the hang of the basics the way stuff's organised is pretty logical. 
well, to me at least.

grtz Chiel

> I'm reading all these suggestions about playlist editing and 
> it's getting deeper and deeper by the week. At what point are 
> we gonna lose control or to put it another way at what point 
> are we going to get lost in code and forget what level we're 
> on?? Who is going to be able to remember all this unless 
> there is  dictionary thick manual alongside? I for one can't 
> remember more than a few well used commands during the heat 
> of performance. Is this ringing a bell for anyone else?

I have a simple rule to prevent that happening.
As far as possible, I wont add any new function that alters the way an
existing function works unless it is an obvious improvement or
simplification of the original.
So any extra complexity that gets added for handling playlists will be
invisible unless you decide to make use of it.

Cheers,
Colin f

> for me, one of the good things about the P3 is that once you've got 
> the hang of the basics the way stuff's organised is pretty logical. 
> well, to me at least.

Well that's what I try to achieve, so I'm glad you think so ;-)

Cheers,
Colin f