Analogue-sequencer

Hi Colin and everyone. Been ages since i've posted here, much less 
played with my P3, but i finally finished uni so i've been getting 
into it again. Hopefully i'll actually start getting productive 
soon (probably too much to ask ;-)

I noticed one tiny thing that might make it a bit easier to work 
with - when you change the "tbase" of a pattern and then hit "sync", 
rather than adjusting to the new tbase and continuing, it appears to 
sync on the old tbase for as long as you keep hitting the button.  
It feels a little counter-intuitive to me because my mind kinda sees 
the "sync" button as a shortcut to restart the pattern with the new 
settings. Is that the way it was planned?

On a similar note, it would be very cool if the "shift" could rotate 
everything EXCEPT the note delay values as set by "Shf". This would 
maintain the shuffle effect relative to the other instruments and 
patterns playing. I know you can use note delays for other cool 
stuff besides shuffle, but perhaps we could have a global option to 
choose (assuming it's viable in the first place).

Other than that i'm just being bowled over by all the cool stuff 
you've packed in. I don't know when you added the polyphony aux 
events (aux note rel, rep*n, etc) but they kick all ass. I can now 
spend hours on one soloed track just playing B3 samples.  Top stuff, 
it truly is inspiring :-)

Al

> I noticed one tiny thing that might make it a bit easier to work 
> with - when you change the "tbase" of a pattern and then hit "sync", 
> rather than adjusting to the new tbase and continuing, it appears to 
> sync on the old tbase for as long as you keep hitting the button.  

Yep. Tbase is reloaded when the code that resets the pattern normally sees
that the stored value has changed.
The SYNC function resets the pattern with a different bit of code.

> It feels a little counter-intuitive to me because my mind kinda sees 
> the "sync" button as a shortcut to restart the pattern with the new 
> settings. Is that the way it was planned?

Yeah, it makes sense that it should work that way.
I just didn't think of it. I'll change it in the next build.
 
> On a similar note, it would be very cool if the "shift" could rotate 
> everything EXCEPT the note delay values as set by "Shf". This would 
> maintain the shuffle effect relative to the other instruments and 
> patterns playing. I know you can use note delays for other cool 
> stuff besides shuffle, but perhaps we could have a global option to 
> choose (assuming it's viable in the first place).

It would be viable, but I'm not sure how I'd implement it in the UI.
FUNC + shift is already used for rotating only steps up to the current last
step.
With the 'shf' function already on the same page as rotate, it only takes a
second to reset the delay values.
I'll see what I think of though.


Best regards,
Colin Fraser
Sequentix Music Systems Ltd
http://www.sequentix.com

--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, "Colin f" <colin@c...> 
wrote:
  
> > It feels a little counter-intuitive to me because my mind kinda 
sees 
> > the "sync" button as a shortcut to restart the pattern with the 
new 
> > settings. Is that the way it was planned?
> Yeah, it makes sense that it should work that way.
> I just didn't think of it. I'll change it in the next build.
>  
Sounds good, i hope it doesn't annoy anyone who's using it the other 
way on purpose ;-)

> > On a similar note, it would be very cool if the "shift" could 
rotate 
> > everything EXCEPT the note delay values as set by "Shf".
> It would be viable, but I'm not sure how I'd implement it in the 
UI.
> FUNC + shift is already used for rotating only steps up to the 
current last
> step.
> With the 'shf' function already on the same page as rotate, it 
only takes a
> second to reset the delay values.

Yeah i was pondering FUNC+shift as an option until i remembered it 
was used.  I can't think of anything clever off the bat unless you 
could hold down Shf and press shift (rather than a step number).

On a side note - reading the manual it all seems very confusing 
holding buttons down and doing this and that but i think because of 
the nice action on the buttons it feels very musical and fluid when 
you actually do it.  That softkey idea was really a stroke of genius.

Alison

is there a PDF guide for the demo tracks? I can't find a link anywhere...

Richard


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> is there a PDF guide for the demo tracks? I can't find a link 
> anywhere...

The file is P3Demo1.pdf, in Yahoo files section.
To leave an empty first bank on production P3s, the contents of bank 1 were
moved to bank 2.
Otherwise, P3 ships with the P3Demo1 patterns as described.

Best regards,
Colin Fraser
Sequentix Music Systems Ltd
http://www.sequentix.com