Analogue-sequencer

I just wrote a really really long e-mail about what we'd been doing 
in the "northern echo-south" with our new P3, & while I was 
previewing it I spotted a typo. being a bit of a pedant, I tried to 
back up & fix the typo, only to lose the entire spiel. serves me 
right for being verbose & particular I suppose.

anyway.

long story, short version.

we have been using the P3 mostly in live-record-playlist/pattern over-
write mode. the tracks are set up so that some might have playlists 
of four patterns at t-base 16 while others have playlists of one 
pattern at t-base 4. or whatever. 
thus, they loop around in the same place but have different effective 
resolutions. the faster tracks might also have some aux events set up 
to do trills.

I tend to use the FTS patches in my proteus 2000 ("user tuning 
tables") rather than the P3 FTS, because I can make "holes" in them. 
thusly I can "play" rests from the keyboard rather than have to edit 
the pattern on the P3. also, I can double-up some of the notes (i.e. 
make the E into another D# in my Cmin patch) & then detune them a bit 
so as to mimic the effect of an analogue synth not-quite-making-it-to-
the-note, depending on the interval.

anyway, all this comes under the general heading of using the P3 as a 
midi-looping device rather than as a playback device for pre-arranged 
patterns/parts/songs. we use the parts & banks to recall setups for 
improvs, rather than to recall the patterns themselves. if we lose a 
few good riffs along the way, c'est la guerre.

what would be really helpful would be if one could be in playlist-
playback-track-record-multiple-pattern-overwrite mode & switch to 
(over-)recording a different track just by selecting it. maybe from 
the track selector buttons, or maybe by midi CC/PC?

d/#73

> what would be really helpful would be if one could be in playlist-
> playback-track-record-multiple-pattern-overwrite mode & switch to 
> (over-)recording a different track just by selecting it. maybe from 
> the track selector buttons, or maybe by midi CC/PC?

Do you mean you want to be able to exit track record mode for one track by
switching direct to record on another track ?
If you hold REC when you're exiting record, then press another track key,
you should go straight into record on that track.
Letting you do it just by pressing another track key while in record would
mean you couldn't then mute or unmute tracks during record.

Cheers,
Colin f

>>If you hold REC when you're exiting record, then press another 
track key, you should go straight into record on that track.<<

ok- I'll give that a go. any thoughts on using midi cc's/pc's to do 
this? or maybe all the tracks could be in record at once, & you'd 
just change channels on the controller..... 
no. I know you can't do that... :-)

d/#73