Analogue-sequencer

> real time transpotition of the patterns is a "must" for a 
> live sequencer like the Cirklon. Nothing quite like this 
> exist in the market today and the ability to control via Midi 
> patterns from an external mother keyboard is something that 
> only Bill Marshall's Zyklus did many years before.

That's not entirely true... 
Many years ago, I had a Cheetah MQ8.
It had a few obviously Zyklus-inspired tricks - pattern transposition,
patterns as chord memory or arpeggio, and a couple of other things.
But the Cheetah also had the single most stupid feature ever seen on a bit
of music hardware.
It had 8 tracks, and 8 keys which could mute or un-mute the tracks.
But for the sake of saving a few pennies, they didn't put diodes into the
key matrix.
So it couldn't read simultaneous key presses. You couldn't mute or unmute
more than one track at a time.
Rendering it almost entirely useless.
The one good thing that came out of it was that I decided to give up on off
the shelf hardware seqs, and build my own.
P3 had pattern transpose via MIDI, and it's always been in the plan for
Cirklon.
I did wonder if Bill Marshall ever got his Improviser into production.
He contacted me about it in 2004, when he was looking for a manufacturer.
I was already developing P3 at that time, and more as an out-of-control
hobby than a business idea, so I didn't think I'd have time to get involved.
As I remember, none of the other people he'd contacted even replied to say
'no thanks', which put him off the idea at the time.

Cheers,
Colin