Analogue-sequencer

> A lot of people always  have more then one project on the go 
> at once - i know im one of them.  So im wondering if your 
> working on anything else that the likes of us may be building 
> in the future.

Phew... if only I had the hours in the day !
 
> I heard mention of the R3 (?) a while back, and was there 
> mention of a 'bigger' p3 type device?

I still have a need for a good percussion oriented sequencer, so either R3
needs doing, or P4 will need to have the ability to do percussion patterns
as well as notes.

My current thinking is that it would be a lot of effort to start from
scratch on a totally new sequencer design, and that a lot of the design
philosphy of P3 will carry over to P4.
So it makes sense to start by building the P4 'brain' around the much more
powerful ARM processor, giving it the I/O capacity to handle a more
sophisticated user interface, but making it support the existing P3 user
interface, so I could get a head start by porting P3 to the new CPU.
This gives the possibility that at some point a P3.5 will emerge, which
looks exactly like P3 on the outside, but has 4 times the code space and 20
times the CPU speed. This could add further improvements such as multiple
midi outputs, high speed I/O to drive CV/Gate outputs directly, and possibly
compact flash data storage.

But my first priority now is to get the manufacture of ready-built P3s
out-sourced. If they sell well enough, maybe I can give up my day job for a
while, and concentrate full time on designing the ultimate sequencer.
Time will tell...

Cheers,
Colin f