Analogue-sequencer

duncan wrote:

> but thank heavens the timebase setting is now global for all the bars
> of a pattern unless you don't want it to be. that was threatening to
> be a nuisance until colin changed it.... :-) aux configs next, please.

Aux configs are now global across the whole pattern, I'm pretty sure.

> but I can't remember what the effect is on the internal layout of the
> p3's memory- do I get more banks? bigger patterns/more bars per
> pattern? can't remember, can't find clues anywhere....

You get 16 banks and with the expanded memory that means you can have 
totally different patterns per track per part in each one of them! Which 
is awesome if you want to start structuring things, as I've started to do.
The "intro" part of a pattern (the bars before any loop) works really 
well too in terms of making a freely-built structure sound planned and I 
agree an "outtro" (playing the bars post loop) would be a cool thing, 
especially in a part chain. But I think it would maybe need a second 
type of global bar value for this to govern the length of the outtro.

I have to say that I'm now fully into v4 and don't think I could go 
back. That isn't to say playlists don't still have a few groovy things I 
miss but the advantages now outweigh the disadvantages IMHO. Of the 8 
parts per banks, I allocate them in pairs, each pair being linked to a 
unique drum pattern on my electribes, slaved P3s and so on. In that way 
I can build some quite huge, complex compositions that I can still zoom 
in to work in fine detail as I used to.

And if it isn't too spamming, might I suggest a few samples of such P3 
work can be found on my new CD "Ephemeris" on musiczit - 
http://www.musiczeit.com/
Some of it goes way OTT of course, with a veritable orgy of P3 action. 
But hey, I love sequences almost as much as I love delay!

Paul
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