Analogue-sequencer

Greetings

I have just joined this group. A little intro to start..

I seem to be often buying and selling sequencers and sequence-based gear. 
I recently got an Octatrack. I decided to sell my Genoqs Nemo to fund it, hoping that the OT MIDI sequencer would be a suitable replacement, as well the sampler/looper functionilty. 
However, I am not really gelling with it. I'm not into glitchy timestretched sounds, and in terms of the sequencing, although it is powerful, it is just not what I hoped it would be. Different length tracks are currently a pain to set up... p-locks are independant and cannot be moved together. 

I also wanted to move away from the computer for performance. But for the type of dubbed-out stuff I like to do live I'm finding it limiting also.

I have been reading and watching lots of videos on the Cirklon. It looks like it would replace the Nemo nicely. I have a modular synth also, and the CVIO just seems amazing for controlling analogue gear. 

I am also wondering how it could be used with ableton live, to trigger clips and scenes in a live performance (i.e. not looking at the computer!) 

Does the Cirklon allow quick or immediate switching of patterns or scenes? Or do you have to wait till the current pattern's finished? 

Also I want to confirm some stuff about the arpeggio. I take it you can program an arp like a sequence. Then play retrigger and transpose it from a MIDI keyboard or another pattern? 

Cirklon kind of seems like the ultimate sequencer. I see there are new features to come. And Colin seems like he's on it and very supportive of his customers. 

Thanks for reading this far :)

> Does the Cirklon allow quick or immediate switching of 
> patterns or scenes? Or do you have to wait till the current 
> pattern's finished? 

Individual pattern changes on a track are instant, with the pattern position
started from where it should be, relative to the overall playback position.
Scene changes are synchronised to the next bar end.
A method of doing instant scene changes has been requested recently.
It's easy to do, just not something I would use myself.
 
> Also I want to confirm some stuff about the arpeggio. I take 
> it you can program an arp like a sequence. Then play 
> retrigger and transpose it from a MIDI keyboard or another pattern? 

Right now you can record into a P3-type pattern using 'arpeggio capture',
which works like an arpeggiator, but with the notes that you hold in each
arpeggio written into a pattern.
You can transpose one pattern from another, so you can transpose a pattern
from MIDI input by recording into the pattern being transposed by.
Future additions to allow direct transposition, and pattern triggering, from
MIDI input without using record mode are on my TBI list.

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