Analogue-sequencer

--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, "richardscott"
<richardscott@b...> wrote:

Hi Richard!

> I did my first recording a gig last week with the P3 and it
> stood up fine. I used it simply but the results sounded
> complex... and I managed to use it in a free improvisation
> conext with some really great musicians without appearing
> like a twat - great.

Good for you. I also took my P3 out on the road early on and survived
to tell about it. Seeing what you don't know how to do while under the
gun is a great way of learning IMHO.

> I would love it if there were more
> possibilties or modes that I could use on the fly. I know
> that I will get into a lot more ways of randomizing patterns
> I get to grips with the auxes - but I wonder if there are
> other easy to use randomising algorhythms that could be
> added - moving around the pattern jumping two and then three
> steps and then four steps each time, stepping forwards and
> backwards in smaller increments, different ways of changing
> direction - 50% randomisation???

Auxes will be the way to go. Lots of ways to randomize. The easiest
ones are Randomize Note and Randomize Gate. You can also affect
pattern length, direction, and a whole lot more brain frying
possibilities.

> And who the heck is Brown anyway? Didf he have other tricks
> up his sleeve?

No idea, but a good question.

> and why are accumulators called accumulators? - I don't
> quite get it...

Accumulators are like buffers that get filled up with numbers, thus
they accumulate. Imagine an accumulator that fills up one number ever
time a pattern goes by. You could set different notes in the pattern
that shift up some amount each time the accumlator reaches a certain
level or that unmute or transpose or on and on and on.

I'm still wrapping my head around auxes in general, but the
possiblities seem endless.