Colin f wrote:
>>The data input and MIDI control of the P3 are VERY
>>impressive. The only
>>major feature of the Schrittmacher, that makes it worth
>>looking at, is the
>>different row lengths for note and velocity data.
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> Those are interesting features, but I'm not sure how many P3 people actually
> miss the ability to do that simply.
> Beyond a certain level of complexity, tricks like that all tend to start
> just sounding random, and you can do that easily enough.
> I could have put in a different pattern length for each row, but decided
> that would probably just complicate things more than necessary for the
> majority of people who don't use such features.
> If I come to do a sequencer in the Schrittmacher price range, you can be
> sure it will do a lot more than that ;-)
I do like to have different lengths or directions for various
items(note/velocity/cc and such...) due to habits from other sequencers,
and your Aux to Track N, Aux Event works great for that. It doesn't
work for the velocity but it does for cc control to have different row
lenght/direction/speed....
Another way would be to use 2 Tracks set to the same Midi Channel, but
there would have to be some way to mask the note (but keep the gate) so
that it will still send the velocity and other items... (maybe your idea
for adding a seperate gate to each row, for drum machine type uses would
be useful for this, so that you could gate the velocity sending but not
the notes sending....)
With that said, I really did like your idea for:
"I have a notion that I might add 'aux note ind' events that would be
similar to 'aux note abs', except that the aux notes would be gated by
their own status bits, and therefore be independent of the main gate."
If you could add a velocity gate to that, it would give the ability to
use 2 Tracks to have Velocity and Note different length/direction/speed."
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In the same update you added:
"By adding a pattern macro that would set the note on every step for the
main note and all four auxes to some predefined values, you could then
use the gate and 4 aux flags as a sort of grid drum editor."
I like this!!! Please do add this if you can...
Are you going to be adding any more marcos? The reason that I ask, is
that the current macros that you enabled (work great by the way!), only
set each of the Auxs to Aux Note Rel or Aux Note Abs for each of the
number of notes that you defined, which work great when recording
from a keyboard into P3, but if you are programming from the P3 itself
without a remote keyboard, one still has to manually enable each Aux
Event Step, so I have to press 1-16 keys for Aux A, Aux B, Aux C & Aux
D, and then I have to use the sculpt button to actually change the value
to what I want for each of the Aux's. This can take 20 seconds or so,
where a Macro could have this done fairly quickly.
It would save a bit of time, if one could, within the Macro itself, when
for example you've hit Function --> Upper to enable the Macro Mode and
then selected Poly 5 Rel, then I can then hit the Function key and get
another menu where I can program the offset for each of the aux's. Then
All I have to do then, to start getting my chords, is hit gate for that
step and program the root note for the chord.
Thanks for listening...
Dave