Analogue-sequencer

....started making noises properly in it's new home a couple of 
evenings ago, but only last night did I escape from the g/f's kitchen 
long enough to take a good run up & jump right in. the endless DIY 
has given me a bit of RSI, though, so I haven't done much with the 
attached keyboard except rewire the midi-in socket on #73 to power 
it. 
(I do this with all my midi paraphenalia because a) the two spare 
wires in a midi cable are otherwise wasted & b) because I can't stand 
having wall-warts all over the gaff/stage. I use a laptop psu to send 
12V everywhere; this keeps the noise down & prevents interference to 
the midi data.)

#73 now lives in a slim 8U portable case that I bought two of from 
dieter doepfer.... there is a proteus 2000 bolted to it's back, with 
the front panel detached & rack-mounted above the p3.... a repeater 
will go in there, & maybe another module. I tried #73 out with my 
supernova at first, but the big blue synth is awful noisy these days 
& distorts too easily when there's a lot going on. I need to get a 
kenton & get the moogs fired up.

anyway. I've just about got a handle on the basic geography of the 
p3, & I know roughly how to get from one menu to another. 

eventually I will get used to the 5 octave range thing, unless there 
are plans to make this customisable... maybe I'll take an iron to it 
& reduce the 5V on the lower pots.... would that be a bad idea, colin?

I have a trick I do on the schaltwerk (p.o.s.- might sell it soon, or 
give it to g/f for her to write drum parts on) to mimic something the 
notron does (must get it mended soon) which is the triplet/trill 
effect. 

to perform this on the schalt, I would set the required step to 
velocity 127 & the rest to 120, then build a patch in the proteus (or 
whatever) that velocity-switches in a couple of linked & delayed 
presets to play the triplet. in the proteus, the linked presets can 
be delayed by a clock-divider, so it all stays in time when you 
change tempo.
this is a neat effect when used with drumkits too, for creating flams 
& triplets... you don't even have to use the same instrument...

the thing that's bugging me a little- & it's a tiny thing- is this:  
I have been able to perform the same stunt with #73, & -even better- 
finetune the triplet effect for more swinginess using the step-delay..
BUT
when you change the timebase of a pattern, the step-delay.. you know 
what I'm going to say.
this weekend, more playing.

two more things- 
#73's tried to crash a couple of times. I say "tried" because it 
actually keeps going even though there's garbage in the display & the 
buttons don't respond. eventually, the buttons work for long enough 
for it to crash properly. I think it might be a loose IC somewhere- 
it's only happened twice & if I'd left the buttons alone, it would've 
kept playing I think. it did this before I took the case apart; seems 
to have settled down since but I might do a re-init & squish some 
chips this w/e.
& I'm not sure if the second output socket is roland/korg or midi-
clock-only; I remember asking for the latter if it were possible. no 
biggy, & I really ought to just try it & see....

colin- it's a monster. crack with blue flashing lights. I am in the 
market for shortcake, in other words, & possibly a quickie "divorce" 
so I can spend more time knocking out aleatory spacerock.

d/r.m.i.