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offline billabongbill from Dublin (Ireland) on 2003-04-01 12:18 [#00627597]
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Heya folks,

I'm thinking of getting a hardware sequencer for live stuff
but i'm having trouble finding one that suits my needs.
Do you guys have any suggestions? Also, the cheaper the
better :)

i want to use it to trigger an S5000 sampler and would like
if it had knobs that transmitted midi info as well. Also, if
it has built-in sounds as well, it would be a bonus. I was
thinking of getting a Roland MC 303 but the knobs don't
transmit midi data, Yamaha DX 200 sounded sweet until i
discovered it skippes the first note every time you change a
pattern!

At the moment, it looks like it might be the Korg Electribes
M that I'll end up getting.

Thanks

 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2003-04-01 12:28 [#00627611]
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hmm i havent tried that.

ive got the electribe-s as a sampler, and for that purpose
its good

its sequencer is useful, but it has restrictions

so i would expect the same of the es-m

restrictions in as much as you cant do fine step notation,
and you cant do real-time phrasing.. which is what id look
for in a sequencer

i use a 10-year old roland mv-30 sequencer for those
purposes and anything midi, it was one of the first machines
to actually do real time phrasing. picked mine up for about
$400au.

if thats the sort of thing youre looking for perahps read
into it and link to something similar.. thats my advice

http://www.harmony-central.com/Synth/Data/Roland/MV-30-01.h
tml

i also use it as a synth in conjunction with the korg es-1
filters



 

offline billabongbill from Dublin (Ireland) on 2003-04-01 12:43 [#00627666]
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Cheers, i'll try that. What's "real time phrasing" tho? Does
that allow you to punch in the notes on the fly like on a
drum machine??


 

offline billabongbill from Dublin (Ireland) on 2003-04-01 12:48 [#00627676]
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Cheked that out, don't really think it's an option tho, they
stopped making them years ago :( looks like a pretty sweet
machine tho! Any other ideas???



 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2003-04-01 12:52 [#00627688]
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its the same but also more involved than that.. lets say you
have programmed a sequence/phrase into the mv-30

you can have 8/16 of them on hand that you can trigger on
the fly/in real time by sending a note thru a midi keyboard


the triggered sequence can be sent thru the mv-30s own
timbres, or can be sent by midi into an external sampler




 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2003-04-01 12:55 [#00627695]
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yeah.. i found two by chance.. here in west australia of all
places. all i can say is choose something with real-time
phrasing over anything else.. if the electribe m does that,
then its a good sequencer. rps seems to be rolands
specialty..





 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2003-04-01 12:56 [#00627698]
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make that 3. my mates got one as well. people tend to throw
them away cheap cause they cant work out how to use them :)



 

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