Analogue-sequencer

Hi Folks,

Does P3 have MIDI song pointer recognition at all?  If so, in which 
firmware revisions and how do you activate it?

Currently I'm limited to Start, Stop and Continue, very frustrating 
when trying to sync things cos I ofter have to play the song from the 
beginning each time!!!!

Cheers,


James J

jackson120875 wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Does P3 have MIDI song pointer recognition at all?  If so, in which 
> firmware revisions and how do you activate it?

It wouldn't really make much sense in a step sequencer or any device 
without a linear song mode of some kind.

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> Does P3 have MIDI song pointer recognition at all?  If so, in which 
> firmware revisions and how do you activate it?

P3 doesn't respond to SPP because it doesn't have a linear song structure.
I thought about having jump to a point inside the gbar limit based on a
modulus of the absolute bar number given by SPP, but never really decided
whether this would be useful or not.
I assume you're syncing a P3 to an external sequencer - does the external
sequencer not allow you to continue from the start of the nearest bar ?

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

>Does P3 have MIDI song pointer recognition at all? If so, in which 
>firmware revisions and how do you activate it?
	
>Currently I'm limited to Start, Stop and Continue, very frustrating 
>when trying to sync things cos I ofter have to play the song from the 
>beginning each time!!!!


No song position information is recognised or outputed.

I too would still like to see some implamentation of positional information, but colin has explained to me on occasion before why
its not present.
(I cant remember word for word, but itll be in the archive somewhere)

Julian

On 27 Apr 2007, at 12:42, Paul Nagle wrote:

> It wouldn't really make much sense in a step sequencer or any device
> without a linear song mode of some kind.

Well, given that the P3 has a kind-of song mode (via playlists) it  
would make sense if it were to track SPP, but I don't think it's  
personally worth the effort or code space; if the software sequencer  
is sync master then one can do the sums in one's head to work out  
what bar to start from such that the P3 is in the correct phase for  
the track.

(Another nice-to-have P3 sequencer feature might be a configuration  
such that, if the P3 is master clock, it sends a SPP for a specific  
bar, rather than a START. Then one could work on specific parts of  
one's composition with the P3 in charge. But again, I don't think the  
lack of such is a show-stopper. It's never stopped any of MY shows...)

	-- N.


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