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I can program. . but I've just taken a year of from university specifically to get busy with writing music.. not to spend modifying/programming. Anyhow further developments - I've just decided to minimalise my setup and produce with that. I think all this GAS, the mess of wires everywhere, the wishes for a magic sequencer...has been severely hampering my creativity. I'm sellling everything I own besides my sp-404 sampler, axiom keyboard, and cheap analogue mixer (so: emu command station px-7, an expansion rom for it, kaoss pad 3, yamaha an200) With this money I'm going to buy an elektron monomachine. . I think theres alot of value in a minimised setup.. I just want to get down and make music, and this seems like a very simple, yet capable, way to do that (without succumbing to mucking around with custom software/midi controllers) Maybe later on down the track I'll come and develop my own midibox. . but for now, the monomachine + sp-404 + mixer + keyboard combo is more than enough for the kinds of sounds I'm trying to produce - and if I can't do it with the simplest of setups, I dont face much chance with a more complex one.

Oh well. . thanks anyhow. :-[ The search continues... doepfer schaltwerk doepfer regelwerk fr mobius midibox seq running out of possibilities here... maybe I'll buy a cheap laptop that I dont mind pumping nasty humid club smoke/sweat through and do it in software

OK so I was just trawling the internet searching for my 'perfect' sequencer.. step-style, with an endless encoder for each step, and a button... and look what I found haha! I'm just wondering. . the specs are a little confusing - with the "4 patterns" thing. . or "4 tracks or whatever".. erm..yeah this might help explain my question: Lets just say I want 64 steps per track, and at least say. . 4 tracks running simultaneously each with 3 (or 4 perhaps?) parameters sequenced Is that too much for the midibox seq to handle? (I suppose I could just build 2 units if it was a problem?) Also, Is there some kind of. . .direct parts list and . . instruction guide to building everything? I know a bit (should be enough) about electronics and have done some soldering but nothing on this scale before (and never done any MIDI electronics before) Also if i wanted to add another couple rows of 16 encoders & buttons. . would it be easy to assign them to control what i want (like have 32 encoders, and have each assigned to control 16 steps of 2 different tracks) - thats the one thing about midibox seq that doesnt quite fit my idea of the perfect sequencer - I would have a set of encoders & buttons for every track in front of me.