Yep. Just search your favorite music retailer for "arpeggiator" - there
are plenty of standalone hardware arpeggiators. I was just tracking an
Oberheim Cyclone arpeggiator on ebay - went for $100. There's an Akai one
up now for $20 - ends in 5 hours.
There are also many sequencers for palmtops. Here's one:
http://www.minimusic.com/hardware2.html On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, jisatsuboy wrote:
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> i'm sure this is nothing new. but i've been using the midi in/out to
> arrpegiate my poly -- the midi out sends the signal to the program
> which is set to arrpegiate, which sends a signal back to the poly.
> i'm using Fruity Loops to do this, but you could use any good midi
> program, I bet. It works really well.
>
> My question: does a hardware equivalent exist for what I'm doing? I
> mean, like a little box that you could plug your midi cables into and
> select the arrpegiating mode or whatever. Cause that'd be rad.
>
> Also, I'm trying to think of a cheap way to sequence the poly 800 in
> a live setting (think way cheaper than a laptop). I had an idea...
> that maybe sequencing software has been written for little palm pcs.
> and as long as they have usb, the midi is a go. or some kind of
> inexpensive little sequencer gadget. help.
>
> eric