[mw7]

I've been working with multitimbral synths for a long time, but I have to say I am very impressed with the TI's sequencer mode.

I haven't seen much written about this... If you're doing sequencing with the TI, you owe it to yourself to try this feature.

After playing with this for a while, it seems as though sequencer mode is just like having 16 TIs, all in single mode. You can have 16 "single" patches assigned to 16 different parts - but here's the cool thing - you can easily edit/tweak the singles as much as you want, without having to subsequently store the edits in RAM. You simply do an "arrangement" bulk dump of sysex into a MIDI track, and when you re-load the sysex in sequencer mode, you get all of the patches, but in their edited form.

The other convenient thing about sequencer mode is that volume and pan are controlled by your sequencer's mixing board (Digital Performer, in my case). These setting don't seem to be stored in the sysex dump, but I can easily use DP's mixer snapshot feature to set those levels at the beginning of a song (or at any other time during the song, using snapshots or fader automation).

Good stuff, Access.

BTW, I am using a Polar simply connected with MIDI cables as an old-fashioned hardware synth.