Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Of course, my previous email was the preamble to something else,  
which I forget actually to include. I have a notoriously poor memory,  
so this doesn't surprise me...

Sequencer Enhancement Idea:
Two ideas, really. Don't know how practical either is, but one, or  
both, would be very cool.

1. A dedicated '303-style' bassline sequencer mode.
Switching to this mode would automatically drop the current sound  
into Portamento Mono mode, and set the filter envelope to a simple  
Attack Decay mode (which could be done by overiding the patch's  
existing Breakpoint, Slope and Sustain settings). In addition, this  
new mode would allow slide notes to be added to the current sequencer  
step with a special keypress. This would slide from the previous note  
to the current one. Also, you'd be able to add accents to the current  
note by pressing another keypad key. Accented notes wouldn't  
necessarily have to be louder, but I'd envisage them (as in the  
tb-303), having a tighter filter envelope decay, increased filter  
env.mod, and maybe slightly higher resonance and cutoff values.
It might also be cool to add the accent function outlined above to an  
additional Bassline key mode, so that note velocities above a  
settable threshold would trigger the accent effect.
In either case, you'd be able to set the accent amount.

2. A more generalised ability to record arbitrary parameter settings  
per-sequencer-step. In this mode, any edits made to parameter  
settings while in sequencer write mode would be recorded with the  
current step, and would be played-back at the same time as any notes  
recorded. This would allow all kinds of cool sequenced timbral  
effects, especially is the ability to record just parameter-changes  
(and no note data) was added. That way, you could play any notes you  
wanted, and have the synth parameters automated by the sequencer.


I realise both these options (but particularly the 2nd one) would  
greatly increase the memory demands of the sequencer, so I'd be  
perfectly willing to accept a cut in the number of available  
sequencer steps from the current 256 to, say, 32, or even 16, if this  
helps at all.


Anyone any thoughts on whether the above would be desirable? I'm  
aware that the Poly/EX-800 is never going to make a particularly  
convincing tb-303 emulator, but the Slide and Accent features of the  
original bassline box still sound amazing, even when applied to a  
different basic sound. Option 2 is admittedly a little more  
ambitious, but if it's possible, would open up all kinds of cool  
possibilities.

Cheers guys,

a|x