This makes sense to me. I read somewhere (up above in this thread or over at KVR) that Roger Linn added sequencer capabilities to the Linnstrument mostly at the request and as a favor to the software developer (Geert–can’t remember his last name) who wanted this added.
For me, my favorite thing to do with an MPE player is to set up immersive experiences with it–configure a complex sound with lots of modulations controlled by x-y-z expression, hit record, and then choose different chords and close my eyes and “feel the force” (sorry, couldn’t resist). I get lost in the joy of having all that control at my fingertips without having to look at anything, not a screen, not a knob or slider, not take my hands off the pads or keys to grab a mod wheel, nothing at all, just my fingers, the sounds and my ears. Not much comes out of it worth keeping, or that I know what to with it, but that’s okay, I guess it is the sonic version of “dancing with myself.” I feel like I almost literally swimming in the sounds I can create this way. Okay, I’ve gone off the grid here. Please forgive.
Maybe I will learn to do this with the Linnstrument connected to the Hydrasynth or a VST like Equator, and then run it into the OT, then chop it up into various bits. Should be fun!