Cirklon Sequencer User Manual
13. P3 Patterns & Aux events
Having seen earlier how to assign an auxiliary event to one of the auxes in a pattern and
enter values for it, let’s look at what you can actually do with the many events in P3 patterns.
Aux events first appeared in the Sequentix P3 Sequencer.
The implementation in Cirklon is very similar, though subtly different in some ways.
The same can be said of this section of the manual, so it is worth reading through in case you
miss the differences.
In essence, an auxiliary event is like a controller message that is sent internally to modify
some setting or value within the P3 pattern playback engine:
They can alter the current values for each playing pattern – note, velocity, length,
delay, aux and status values.
They can change pattern values like timebase, direction and last step.
They can change global values, such as the current tempo and track mutes.
They can also access normally “hidden” values that affect patterns in unusual ways.
Some of the events are more difficult to understand than others, so let’s look at an example of
the sort of thing you can do quite easily, before looking at some of the trickier stuff.
Randomizing Pattern Values
The aux events are divided into a number of different event groups, one of which is called
“Randomize”.
The Randomize group allows you to add a random amount to any of the numeric pattern
values.
Or you can randomly mask the pattern status values, which just means that you can
randomly turn off active status values on some steps.
A Boring Pattern…
Let’s work through an example of applying some randomization to pattern values.
The table below shows a simple pattern.
If you are familiar with P3 pattern edit, you should be able to enter it quickly.
If you’re not too sure how to go about entering the pattern, you may not be quite ready for
this chapter.
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