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My electronica band JUDSN (www.judsn.net) are playing shortly in
Newcastle on Tyne (Tues. 9th March 2004 at the Tyne Bar supporting
Adam Johnson (Merck Records Miami)), and I have come up with
something that I would like to make work for the gig

The 'problem' that I am addressing is that I have a musical
imagination that outstrips my technical ability!

Onstage we run Cubase VST live on PC (yeah, I know, don't tell me,
one day...), playing some audio tracks while in- and outputting MIDIm
and we are playing live too.

What I'd like to do is - think of an appropriate sequence for the
AN1X on the fly during a song; record it in to the step sequencer
there & then (using headphones, with the AN1X channel on our stage
mixer at zero volume); & then put the mixer up & have the sequence
play locked to MIDI Clock while I fool about with the various patch
settings.

Is this do-able? The key bit, I think, is having the sequencer
sync'd to incoming MIDI Clock, and starting the sequence at the right
time (??), and then retriggering it regularly after each 16 steps.

That's what I want to do, and I think it ought to be possible.
Thoughts please - how/will it work?

Thanks

H