Step sequencers, STS-3000?

[MeloManiac]

Hi! I am a soon-to-become Pulsar 2 Plus owner (if musicians-gear.com wants), and I have a few questions.

Have anyone done any drum stepsequencers like Fruity Loops or the ones in Rebirth for Pulsar? I know about Creamware's own but it's analogue and it would be nice to have a samplebased too.

About STS-3000, is the only differences from the 4000 the polyphony and the amount of outputs? Because I won't be using my Pulsar machine as main sampler, so I don't need that much poly and the price is only about 45% of STS-4000....

Oh and a performance question. I have bought the ASUS CUSL2 mobo recommended by everybody for Pulsar, but I only have a P3 running 500@667, will that do for 'heavy' Pulsar work+sequencer? I'll be using an UDMA66 drive for sample playback/recording.

[Spirit]

I use a PIII 450MHz with 320Mb RAM and PulsarII + VST run smooth as can be.

For drum programming I've put together my own drum machine in Modular2 (the best part of Pulsar!). I've built it with step sequencers and put it in a Pulsar project with a link to SoundForge. I then use SoundForge to either record individual drum sounds, or complete patterns. I then drop these wavs into VST.

This works for me, but then there's dozen of different ways to work....

cheers,
Spirit

[subhuman]

Yes you should be just fine with a 666.66mhz processor. RAM seems a little more important, get yourself a minimum of 256, 512+ is better Prices are climbing a bit lately too.. grr..

[MeloManiac]

Thanks guys. Well I can't put in more than 512MB since this is an I815 motherboard. I have a 128mb and a 64mb module lying unused in a drawer, but it won't work for this system:)

[xbeemer]

Well, it's probably more than you are looking for, but you can get a good modular step sequencer that works well with Pulser via MIDI. It's a free download at: http://algoart.com