Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 01:20:33 From: KIRK DEGIORGIO To: analogue@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: Latronic Notron Step Sequencer? =20 >not very analogue, but nonetheless... anybody use or know anything about >this unit? I saw one last night, and it blew my mind...all those LEDS!=20 >What's it do that's so groovy? And how much? >-Jim >-- >skoop@slackers.net >http://www.slackers.net/~skoop > > The Notron is a Midi Controller/Sequencer with 4 rows of 16 3-stage toggle buttons with tri-colour LEDs, 2 sets of note length/velocity knobs and 4 assignable mod wheels and much more.=20 It does everything through a series of menus which are accessed through pressing different button combinations. Each sequencer row can be assigned a seperate Midi channel and joined together for 64 note sequencing. It has a chord/strum mode and a scale mode with over 40 different modes of scale including hungarian/balinese/wholetone, etc. You can transpose up/down at the push of 6 dedicated buttons (keeping in the scale if in scale mode). Events can be delayed/echoed over midi. Sequences can alter in length, change tempo, rebound mid-song, etc.=20 It has a beatwrap facility to keep looped drums in tune with tempo changes (haven't tried this out yet). Basically you choose your initial tempo, set your loop points for each row and step write by pushing the toggle buttons a la TR808.=20 Press on an active button again and it toggles to the stage where you can change that individual notes pitch, note length, velocity, etc. Toggle again to mute, etc. It takes a while to remember what everything does - you need to keep referring to the manual at first.=20 I use mine slaved to MidiClock from Cubase VST and record all the events. There is a slight time delay which is annoying. Latronic have improved this in the new software and in a recent review in a German tech mag it got 10/10 for timing accuracy over midi - so maybe mine is in the wrong place in a chain. Gerrard the guy who designed it is very helpful... he's just added some more scales into my software. Unfortunately you have to buy direct from him I think - no distribution even in the UK. They are quite expensive as well - around =A3500 UKP - maybe more. Mail me for more details - if anybody's serious about getting one I may ask Gerrard if I can post his details up. I may also have one for sale soon (mass clear-out due to Serge-obssession). Kirk.=20