Sequential circuits samplers

>well, that's certainly intriguing..  i've actually opened my p3k up 
>to have a look inside, and the revisions are in fact A or B and even 
>C for some boards, apparently.  mine is revision B, and this i guess 
>is a main determining factor for whether or not it can be upgraded to 
>a 4 MB version. 

yes, if you have a rev B the upgrade from 2M to 4M is 'trivial',
very simple to do. the key is the I-627 chip, it must say 'I-627B'.

> however, i was using os 3.0b and did have a few 
>crashes with the OS, basically freezing up on me when i'd do things a 
>particular way, so i'm not sure what the deal is.  

the P3K OS is, in a sense, beta. and doesn't have very good error
recovery. meaning: as long as you don't do anything wrong, it always
worked fine for me. but it won't try to catch if you do something
wrong, and i've gotten weird results (including crashes) when i tried
to do something 'illegal'; it's been a while, but for instance once
a sample had its sloop set to the entire sample (0...length of sample),
and the rloop set off. i forgot and went to set up the rloop, and when
i tried to change the start/end, i got really strange results, and no
error messages. but as long as you're careful, i didn't have any problems.

there are some weirdnesses i discovered though, that i'm not sure if
they were just my machine or not. one particularly galling one was that
if you are in mode 3, and assign pitchbend to pitch like normal, it works
fine on all 8 voices. but if you go to mode 4 (multi, i think that's right?),
the pitchbend only works on voice 1 (even if say voices 1-3 were all assigned
to the same midi channel, only voice 1 would respond to pitchbend, so it wasn't
like 'only the first multi part' or anything like that). 

but it's still an incredible sounding machine; i wish i had mine back.
i'm not sure i'm not still too lazy to really use it ;) but it is
the best sounding sampler i've heard so far...

corley brigman
intel corp.
corley.brigman@...