Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Paul Nagle <paul@...> wrote:
> The Sequentix P3 and the forthcoming Cirklon sequencers have force to 
> scale (that allows you define your own scales) but the arpeggiator is 
> fairly basic until you start to introduce "aux events", when it becomes 
> far more interesting.

Hi Paul,

I am a lurker on the P3 mailing list so I am aware of the P3 and Cirklon even though I don't own them.  Although the P3 is very powerful, I think the CS user pattern arps have more flexibility in timing.  Looking at the P3 manual, it looks like you specify the Timebase and all notes start on the grid.

The CS user pattern arps can have notes of arbitrary duration so you can easily specify a pattern with 3 eighth notes, followed by 7 dotted 32nd notes, followed by 5 sixteenth note triplets, etc. Of course, this example is bound to be unlistenable but I like having this flexibility available to me. I guess there isn't one hardware sequencer that can do everything.

Regards,
Mike F