Analogue-sequencer

I guess the answer is "no" but is there any way I can
control NRPN synth from the P3 - could this ever be
possible?

believe it or not I've had the P3 for two months and I
haven't yet plugged it into my Andromeda which has only a
few CC#s but a lot of NRPN. I think I really want to do it
when I've understood the P3 in depth. The P3 is creating
such fantastic things with an Akai Ax600 analogue and an
evolver that I'm almost scared what will happen when I plug
in the Andro :))) 

sometimes when I'm not reflecting on how hard it is being a
obscure electronic musician scratching a living I am amazed
what a luxury it is to have all these fantastic tools...
especially with all the horror into which the world is
descending, I can eat and make art, that's pretty amazing...
uh, sorry, a bit OT there!

Richard

> I guess the answer is "no" but is there any way I can
> control NRPN synth from the P3 - could this ever be
> possible?

There's not yet a simple implementation of them on P3 because NRPNs are
rather data hungry.
You need to send controller 98 with the low order NRPN number, controller 99
with the high order NRPN number, then controller 6 with the high order
value, and optionally controller 38 with the low order value.

So you can send NRPNs already, but you need to dedicate 3 of the auxes in a
pattern, but can only select 1 NRPN number to send a value to per step.

A simplified implementation of NRPNs might over-ride some of the higher
number MIDI CCs (say CCs 100 up) and allow a global map of those controller
numbers to be sent as NRPNs instead. Storing the 2 bytes for NRPN number
globally would then mean only 1 aux would be needed to send a (7-bit
resolution) NRPN message, albeit to a limited pool of maybe 20 NRPNs.

I don't have any equipment that uses NRPNs, so I'm not sure if that
implementation would be much use.
Would you need to cover a wider range of NRPN numbers ?
Are low-order values commonly used ?

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