Analogue-sequencer

I just spent most of the weekend reading the P3 manual, and I think I
better get one :)

I spent many seasons using the excellent soft sequencer SEQ-303.  As of
the last couple years, tho, I gotten rid of the computer and have been
using Mobius, Fat Controller, SQ-16 (now gone), a CGS Sequential Switch
and my PSIM-1 to do sequencing.  And of course the trigger outs of the
808 :)

I can only find one little thing that the SEQ-303 program had that the
P3 doesn't (freely assignable endpoint *and* beginpoint), but the Skip
feature is a really good substitute.  All the extra features look very
cool.

The P3 will probably be permanently wired into my uWave XT, which is the
only thing I have that could take advantage of all the MIDI data the P3
can spit out.

Here's an old track I did (live) with SEQ-303 and the XT:
http://www.ph.k12.in.us/~drew/noise/intents.mp3

thanks Colin!

Andrew

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Andrew Scheidler wrote:

> I just spent most of the weekend reading the P3 manual, and I think I
> better get one :)

you are right. :) read paul's P3 user guide too, to get a taste of what
this machine is capable of letting us do...

> using Mobius, Fat Controller, SQ-16 (now gone), a CGS Sequential Switch
> and my PSIM-1 to do sequencing.  And of course the trigger outs of the
> 808 :)

as a former user of *all* of the above sequencers, i guarantee you will
*love* the P3... it's fairly easy to get into all the basic functions, but
things can get a conceptually hairy when you start messing around with
auxilliary events... but with enough thinknig and patience you'll get it
and become severely addicted...

the thing i love most about it, i think, is that there are so many ways to
do something... in the track i'm currently working on, i used sculpt,
random, real-time record, variable note ranges per track, and different
playlists on each track... this is all real basic stuff, but for each
track I did something different because that's what the music called
for... the P3 really gets out of the way of your creativity and lets you
manipulate and *play* your sequences like nothing else...

> I can only find one little thing that the SEQ-303 program had that the
> P3 doesn't (freely assignable endpoint *and* beginpoint), but the Skip
> feature is a really good substitute.  All the extra features look very
> cool.

that would be nice, but skip does take care of it... and you can, of
course, have the P3 control it's own skipping madness... in about 40
different ways... :)

let the drooling begin...

bleep.
out.

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> read paul's P3 user guide too, to get a taste of what
> this machine is capable of letting us do...

I'll second that. It's a lot more fun than the rather dry reference 
tone of the manual.
There's stuff in Paul's guide I'd forgotten about, and he's come up 
with a number of tricks I didn't consciously put in there...

Cheers,
Colin f