Analogue-sequencer

chaps-
I've been using the P3 to play chords a lot lately, & while this is fairly easy to achieve with the polyphonic recording capability & the aux note macro, I've found it difficult to edit or to directly enter the aux note values, because the resolution of the upper encoders is fixed at 127 notes in this mode. 
as the P3 gets older, the pots get a bit less reliable. this doesn't matter so much for other sorts of data, but for notes it's absolutely critical. one can limit the resolution of the lower (base note) pots using the note-range setting, but not the upper pots. if you're step-entering a sequence of chords, it's very easy to knock the adjacent pots & slow yourself down....

so-

anyone got any preferences as to whether or not the aux note range should be limited (say, to one octave either side of "base"), whether this should be a user-config, or whether any other auxes need similar attention? 
I'm running 4.5b on both my P3s, & I have tried both relative & absolute aux note settings- the resolution is the same.

(some correspondence with colin follows)

>>I guess the abs aux note entry would sensibly limit the note range to the same as the base note.
Which version of the P3 OS are you using ?<<

4.5b. I been keeping it up-to-date like I otter.

I thought about using the "relative" settings instead, which would entail thinking in intervals & remembering (or, in this case, trying to work out) what key the thing was in. but the resolution's the same either way.

I'd be inclined, if there's enough interest from other people, to allow for inversions rather than just mimic the base-note note range settings.... there may be other circumstances that I haven't explored where reduced aux event resolution is desirable. but in any case, as regards aux notes, I think it's a safe bet that half the time, half the users will want the maximum resolution, & the rest of the time, the rest of us want (say) an octave either side of the root.

I'll cross-post this to the P3 group, see if anyone bites.

d.

update- colin's created a version of 4.5 that limits the aux note range to the same range as the "base" note. in all other respects, the build is the same as the last 4.5.
d.

--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, "duncan" <ferrograph@...> wrote:

>
> chaps-
> I've been using the P3 to play chords a lot lately, & while this is fairly easy to achieve with the polyphonic recording capability & the aux note macro, I've found it difficult to edit or to directly enter the aux note values, because the resolution of the upper encoders is fixed at 127 notes in this mode. 
> as the P3 gets older, the pots get a bit less reliable. this doesn't matter so much for other sorts of data, but for notes it's absolutely critical. one can limit the resolution of the lower (base note) pots using the note-range setting, but not the upper pots. if you're step-entering a sequence of chords, it's very easy to knock the adjacent pots & slow yourself down....
> 
> so-
> 
> anyone got any preferences as to whether or not the aux note range should be limited (say, to one octave either side of "base"), whether this should be a user-config, or whether any other auxes need similar attention? 
> I'm running 4.5b on both my P3s, & I have tried both relative & absolute aux note settings- the resolution is the same.
> 
> (some correspondence with colin follows)
> 
> >>I guess the abs aux note entry would sensibly limit the note range to the same as the base note.
> Which version of the P3 OS are you using ?<<
> 
> 4.5b. I been keeping it up-to-date like I otter.
> 
> I thought about using the "relative" settings instead, which would entail thinking in intervals & remembering (or, in this case, trying to work out) what key the thing was in. but the resolution's the same either way.
> 
> I'd be inclined, if there's enough interest from other people, to allow for inversions rather than just mimic the base-note note range settings.... there may be other circumstances that I haven't explored where reduced aux event resolution is desirable. but in any case, as regards aux notes, I think it's a safe bet that half the time, half the users will want the maximum resolution, & the rest of the time, the rest of us want (say) an octave either side of the root.
> 
> I'll cross-post this to the P3 group, see if anyone bites.
> 
> d.
>

--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, "duncan" <ferrograph@...> wrote:
>
> update- colin's created a version of 4.5 that limits the aux note range to the same range as the "base" note. in all other respects, the build is the same as the last 4.5.
> d.
> 
> --- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, "duncan" <ferrograph@> wrote:
> >
> > chaps-
> > I've been using the P3 to play chords a lot lately, & while this is fairly easy to achieve with the polyphonic recording capability & the aux note macro, I've found it difficult to edit or to directly enter the aux note values, because the resolution of the upper encoders is fixed at 127 notes in this mode. 
> > as the P3 gets older, the pots get a bit less reliable. this doesn't matter so much for other sorts of data, but for notes it's absolutely critical. one can limit the resolution of the lower (base note) pots using the note-range setting, but not the upper pots. if you're step-entering a sequence of chords, it's very easy to knock the adjacent pots & slow yourself down....
> > 
> > so-
> > 
> > anyone got any preferences as to whether or not the aux note range should be limited (say, to one octave either side of "base"), whether this should be a user-config, or whether any other auxes need similar attention? 
> > I'm running 4.5b on both my P3s, & I have tried both relative & absolute aux note settings- the resolution is the same.
> > 
> > (some correspondence with colin follows)
> > 
> > >>I guess the abs aux note entry would sensibly limit the note range to the same as the base note.
> > Which version of the P3 OS are you using ?<<
> > 
> > 4.5b. I been keeping it up-to-date like I otter.
> > 
> > I thought about using the "relative" settings instead, which would entail thinking in intervals & remembering (or, in this case, trying to work out) what key the thing was in. but the resolution's the same either way.
> > 
> > I'd be inclined, if there's enough interest from other people, to allow for inversions rather than just mimic the base-note note range settings.... there may be other circumstances that I haven't explored where reduced aux event resolution is desirable. but in any case, as regards aux notes, I think it's a safe bet that half the time, half the users will want the maximum resolution, & the rest of the time, the rest of us want (say) an octave either side of the root.
> > 
> > I'll cross-post this to the P3 group, see if anyone bites.
> > 
> > d.
> >


Where is this build ? or is it by request :)
>

> Where is this build ? or is it by request :)

http://www.sequentix.com/sq_download.htm

Cheers,
Colin