Analogue-sequencer

As I played with P3 for a few days now I think it's a wonderfull but also extremely complex 
machine and therefore even though I printed Paul's manual and the standard P3 manual 
have a few questions.

It would be nice if someone would chime in and help me on my way. As I also have a new 
synth I want the P3 to play only one note for say 4 times a 4/4 meassure and in those 4 
meassures use the aux D to get the modwheel going from 0 to 127 and back to 1,

I think it's  an easy one for you P3 Pros but as everything is so overwhelming and new I 
cann't get it done after 2 days trying or don't know where to look for the info.

Thanks for helping in advance,

Martin

> It would be nice if someone would chime in and help me on my 
> way. As I also have a new 
> synth I want the P3 to play only one note for say 4 times a 
> 4/4 meassure and in those 4 
> meassures use the aux D to get the modwheel going from 0 to 
> 127 and back to 1,

Modwheel is MIDI CC #1, so you can assign aux D to CC #1 and send a value on
each step.

If you want to sweep the control up and down over a single bar, there are 16
steps, so you would need jump 16 on each step - aux D values on each step
would be 0, 16, 32, 48, 64, 80, 96, 112, 127, 112, 96, 80, 64, 48, 32 and
16.

If you want to sweep more slowly, over a longer number of bars, you need to
use the aux D accumulator.

Assign aux D to MIDI CC #1, and set a value of 0 on every step.
Assign aux C to "offset aux D", and set a value of 1 on every step.

With the default accumulator settings, this will make the transmitted aux D
value increase by 1 on each step, eventually reaching 127 after 8 bars.
Then it will reset to 0.
To have it sweep back down, you need to change the accumulator settings for
the aux D accumulator so the limit behaviour is "rvtz" (reverse to zero).
See page 140 of the manual for how to do this.
With reverse enabled, the value will sweep up and down over 16 bars.
You can make it speed up by increasing the offset values in aux C.
Or you can slow it down further by only enabling every second step for aux
C.

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

> If you want to sweep more slowly, over a longer number of bars, you need to
> use the aux D accumulator.
> 
> Assign aux D to MIDI CC #1, and set a value of 0 on every step.
> Assign aux C to "offset aux D", and set a value of 1 on every step.
> 
> With the default accumulator settings, this will make the transmitted aux D
> value increase by 1 on each step, eventually reaching 127 after 8 bars.
> Then it will reset to 0.
> To have it sweep back down, you need to change the accumulator settings for
> the aux D accumulator so the limit behaviour is "rvtz" (reverse to zero).
> See page 140 of the manual for how to do this.
> With reverse enabled, the value will sweep up and down over 16 bars.
> You can make it speed up by increasing the offset values in aux C.
> Or you can slow it down further by only enabling every second step for aux
> C.
> 
> Best regards,
> Colin Fraser
> Sequentix Music Systems Ltd

> http://www.sequentix.com
>

Colin you realy are the best ... ! This is exactly what I needed but as you're machine ( I 
start calling it an instrument ) is a bit and byte complex at first I just couldn't figure out 
the accumulator approach.

Thank again your support is beyond belief ... !

Martin

On 6/16/06, Colin Fraser <colin@sequentix.com> wrote:
>  If you want to sweep the control up and down over a single bar, there are 16
>  steps, so you would need jump 16 on each step - aux D values on each step
>  would be 0, 16, 32, 48, 64, 80, 96, 112, 127, 112, 96, 80, 64, 48, 32 and
>  16.

Also, if you don't necessarily need to be this exact, you can use the
sculpt function and just record your curve in realtime.  I'm lazy, so
that's generally what I do.  Just hold down the sculpt upper button
and move the data knob (once you've set up the aux D accumulator for
CC#1).

-- 
miles