Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: 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,

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