Analogue-sequencer

in experiment 2007
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@ colin,
any change to see a P3 follow up soon???

> @ colin,
> any change to see a P3 follow up soon???

That depends on your definition of soon.
The idea is still alive, I just haven't had much time to work on it over the
last 6 months or so.
Much of the work needed for P4 has been done in the form of P3 v4.
I still need to do a new hardware prototype for the code to run on.
Hopefully I'll have one of those in the next month or so.

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

>
> Much of the work needed for P4 has been done in the form of P3 v4.
> I still need to do a new hardware prototype for the code to run on.
> Hopefully I'll have one of those in the next month or so.
> .
>  _,_._,___
>

Very exciting!

Will the next sequentix sequencer have more space for code?
I would imagine there could be many ideas added as features of the new 'p4'
(or whatever it's called).
I was thinking just yesterday about an idea that could be very cool...

*This is kind of a half-thought-out long-shot*

If there was a way to switch between banks by 1 or more tracks at a time (as
opposed to all of them)
to sort of transition between banks...
If you could select a number of tracks and set which bank they are playing
from.
Not too sure on the details, but it would be fun!
Switching banks during live performance is the only time I really have to
stop playing...
Or if that is too messy, maybe tracks 1-4 & tracks 5-8 could each have a
bank setting seperately?

...As I said, I haven't really thought this all thru, but if anybody has
ideas/suggestions on how this could owrk, it might be worth trying to
implement.
Of course, whatever Collin has thought was worthwhile has been more than
enough to make me happy thus far :D
But if we, as a community, could come up with a good way to work this out
perhaps there would be reason enough to try it out!


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josh wrote:

> Switching banks during live performance is the only time I really have to
> stop playing...

Although you don't actually *need* to - but I agree it can be chaotic 
(I've done it and not entirely on purpose) depending on the bank you 
switch to.

> ...As I said, I haven't really thought this all thru, but if anybody has
> ideas/suggestions on how this could owrk, it might be worth trying to
> implement.

Maybe the P4 will realise it's a bank change during playback and take a 
global bar length to smoothly change tempo, make active tracks of the 
new bank auto-muted but "primed" etc. For now you could always ensure 
part1 has no active tracks, or just one for the bass/percussion or 
something.

Good thoughts!

-- 
Paul
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just a request/suggestion from a current non user to not skim on the
user interface side of things. Judging by the prices used P3s are
going for you can easily target this to the 1500$-2000$ price bracket,
which should provide enough margin for a non-compromise UI design. 

I keep dreaming of a P3 with a graphical read out of the current
selected lines. Either using values on LCDs or having those endless
knobs with LEDs around them...

and also lots of dedicated buttons for specific functions, like < >
buttons to scroll x0x pages, dedicated buttons for part selection, etc...

I'd like the P4 to have lots more knobs and flashing LEDs please. :-)

And a bigger screen.

But I'd like the footprint to be pretty much the same.

Being a simple heathen I often only use only 4 or 8 steps of the 16
available in a track.

It would be nice to have for example two rows of 16 note knobs instead of
one, which could be split if desired to cover any 4 tracks instead of just
two (or one even, as on the P3) at the same time. With some indication
somewhere of the 4 tracks that were being controlled. Obviously with the 4
tracks having the ability to have different timebase / direction etc
settings at the same time. The flashing lights would be way cool. ;-)

Also nice if it was a 16 track sequencer.

Apols if this doesn't make any sense but many of the posts on here make
little sense to me either. :-D

And it wouldn't surprise me if someone comes back and says "the P3 can do
that already!"

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> >just a request/suggestion from a current non user to not skim on the
> >user interface side of things. Judging by the prices used P3s are
> >going for you can easily target this to the 1500$-2000$ price bracket,
> >which should provide enough margin for a non-compromise UI design.
> >
> >I keep dreaming of a P3 with a graphical read out of the current
> >selected lines. Either using values on LCDs or having those endless
> >knobs with LEDs around them...
> >
> >and also lots of dedicated buttons for specific functions, like < >
> >buttons to scroll x0x pages, dedicated buttons for part selection, etc...
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
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>>it would be nice to have for example two rows of 16 note knobs
instead of one, which could be split if desired to cover any 4 tracks
instead of just two (or one even, as on the P3) at the same time. With
some indication somewhere of the 4 tracks that were being controlled.
.....And it wouldn't surprise me if someone comes back and says "the
P3 can do that already!"<<

the P3 can do that already. 
sort of. 
you need to be grabbing knobs, graham.... :-) 

& then don't use mixer mode.

I have experimented with a pseudo-maq setup where two rows of 16 knobs
are "live" into two (or more, actually) tracks. you could use
different configs but then the chase-light gets confusing....

d.