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Sunday, January 30, 2011

The BCRb0X

I've posted a demo video on YouTube with a link leading back here (among other places). So, two of you might be wondering what this is all about.

The PC3xx series of instruments are pretty dang cool. One thing that I've always wanted with mine is a step-sequencer sort of thing to use for quickly mocking up beats. It comes with all sorts of fun stuff in the arpeggio department, but I'm more of a knob/button sort of person so I really wanted to have as much control over the sound as possible while creating beats. My workflow is generally a.) make a beat, b.) record it, c.) loop it, d.) add stuff, and so on. I don't record MIDI much so I didn't really need something that would store MIDI. The BCRb0x fills that role; it can be used to quickly make a beat and add some melodic stuff. Or, I can just make some synth loops. Or, I can just space out and do a free-form improv and pretend I'm dancing in the desert.

Anyways, I thought there might be other PC3xx owners out there who could use a "groove assistant" like this when creating songs and/or just enjoying some time making music. So I'ma put this up for sale here in a few weeks.

I've always appreciated quality products, so I'm putting in time to write a decent manual and do some other housekeeping sorts of things that will (hopefully) make this easy and fun to use, whether or not you own an external knob/fader box like the BCR2000 I use in the video. I'll be doing another video in the near future to show how this package can be useful to folks who just own a PC3xx -- they should have some fun too!

So thanks for visiting, I'll have more info soon.

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