Have been messing with my old Sound Diver editor that I created a P12 adaption for, so that I can take advantage of all the space I get after purchasing a 4K monitor... and that made me wonder about something...
As all know, the P12 does NOT have a sequencer... it only has an Arpeggiator... if you use the P12 display for looking at the assigned notes of an arp, it only show those that are in the held chord, and you cannot have two notes that are the same (logically, since you cannot hold down a key more than once in a chord).
My wondering is, that in the MIDI SysEx data structure, there are actually space assigned for 32 notes... now that is a bit odd I think, unless of course someone play with their feet as well because I only have 10 fingers.
Why 32 slots? ... not even when you program these 32 slots with an editor I can see much use for 32 "steps" because if they were to be fully used, you would have the arpeggio to have 32 unique notes in it. The only reason I can see would be that it allow rests between the held chord notes...
I cannot help but speculate, that initially the P12 was meant to have had that Sequencer I REALLY miss on the P12... I wonder why it was dropped (polyphonic sequence too much?)...
Just some pure speculation here... I'll live without a sequencer, though it would have been nice to be able to modulate parameters from a sequenced pattern like on the Evolver/Prophet-8/Tetra/Mopho line.