Re: [analogue-sequencer] Re: playing several sequences at once?
2004-11-11 by ferrograph@aol.com
>Yes, I knew that it is only possible to edit one at once... but Can I jump in the fly from one to another?[big snip] [naglecakes:]If you like you can record via MIDI input directly from track view; hold down record and the track number. To jump to another, select another track. [another snip] The MAQ has just three rows so comparisons, while interesting, can only be taken so far. They are different machines. If you have both, you are lucky. < I turn my back for a moment, & they start playing my favourite tune.... hans, my band uses two maqs. we got our first in 1993 & immediately tried to get all the "berlin school" effects on it. obviously, having three active rows of knobs, for up to 3 independent patterns, was great for improv, but the early ones didn't have any memories. the midi implementation was a bit weak, & required writing strings of hex into a pc1600 controller to do anything we thought was musically useful, like shifting the range or shortening the loop. we had to use two rows & fiddle for ages to make a chris franke trill come out of it. we wrote special patches for a sampler & later the proteus box so that it wouldn't play bum notes on stage, & I built a doepfer quantiser into one of them so we could do the same with the moogs. to do anything else than "note-on, note-off-again" took two rows, which were tricky to keep synchronised when sending hex-midi-strings to change the row lengths. only 3 years later did we get a better motherboard with a rotary encoder, some memories (& what a pain they are to use, too), proper midi controller implementation.... still no auxiliary controller events, still no step level timing adjustment.... no FTS..... I could go on. I have a schaltwerk that's a piece of junk, always locking up, never in sync with anything, loses it's mind from time-to-time..... I have a notron that's fallen to bits after a mere 15 gigs though, in fairness to this latter, it was an excellent tool & endured many plane trips & vans. if you are looking at a p3 now, I have made my point. I will be buying a second & retiring the maqs too. there's no contest. paul points out that the p3 can hop amongst the tracks with minimal button pushes whilst entering notes into the patterns from a live keyboard (which can also be FTS'd on it's way past the sequencer to the soft-through at the midi-out, keeping your leadlines & chords in the right key aswell). I'd like it to switch tracks by programme change on the global channel, with higher numbers operating pattern & bank changes, & some of the useful options like "hold bank mute", the FTS "base note learn" & stuff like that, so's I could keep both hands on the keyboard & monkey around underneath with a behringer footpedal controller that lies idle nearby. but what you need to know is that in this mode, the pitch knobs still work aswell. simply go into either version of live-pattern-record & use the knobs. the p3 doesn't do the maq thing of rescanning knobs that are now suddenly "pointing the wrong way", like when you recall a preset on the maq & as soon as you move one knob, it starts changing notes all over the place...... p3 doesn't do that. but they will jump when you do move them. colin? if it's important to have your hands do things to two patterns at once (& let's face it, even on the maq you can't actually change all three patterns at once without using a broom...), then use one row's aux events to influence the notes in another pattern directly, or as directly as needed. the p3 just gets better. duncan/r.m.i./p3-73