RE: blah blah blah sequencers...

From mikekent
Sent Wed, Jun 12th 1996, 18:49

>Matt Haines:
>Are there hardware seq's that DO have phrase recording? I've been doing
>this via my software synth, but didn't think it was a hardware sorta thing.
>I'm not just talking about switching patterns on the beat like a
>303...that's no good. I'm talking about hitting button 'A' to start the
>bassline, hit button 'B' a few bars later to bring the hihats in, etc etc,
>all layered on top of each other. Does this exist?

Well, now we're really getting digital. Bu hopefully enough people are
interested anyways, it's great for techno. Roland calls this type of
function "RPS" or Realtime Phrase Sequencing. It was first introduced in
the MV-30 Studio M, currently it is featured in the sequencer of XP-50 and
XP-80. Basically, you assign a sequenced phrase to any MIDI note number.
Press a key and it triggers the phrase. So it's kind of like mixing beat
loops and phrases on a sampler, the phrase starts as soon as you hit the
key. On the XP-50 and XP-80 you have th option to have the phrase trigger
in sync regardless of your timing, the phrase starts exactly at the next
beat. Maybe the MC-303 has RPS but I don't know, I haven't played with one
yet. Need more info on this non-analogue topic? Let's move to private
email.

Mike Kent

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