Analogue-sequencer

Folks,

There's a new firmware build in Yahoo files, with a fix for an 
obscure little bug brought to light by a sysex dump Roel sent me.

The bug itself amounted to a single 'B' that should have been a 'D' 
in a variable name, but the effects of it are rather unpredictable 
and potentially interesting.
Roel, it certainly caused the weird behaviour you were seeing with 
your Jomox.
Tom, it may also have caused your P3's odd behaviour - give the 
update a try if you still have your weirdness inducing bank.

The new build also has a feature that went in after Mr Nagle's last 
gig. This is called 'Safe Stop' for reasons that will become 
apparent...
While P3 is stopped, if you press FUNC+STOP a message will be 
displayed to indicate 'Safe Stop ON'.
If you press FUNC+STOP again while stopped, the status will toggle 
to 'Safe Stop OFF'.
With safe stop ON, pressing STOP alone will not stop your P3 running.
You must press FUNC+STOP to stop it.
You can probably guess what happened at Paul's last gig.
Fortunately his audience were too stoned to notice anything but an 
emotionally pregnant pause...

Other less obvious new features in this build are the sysex REQuest 
blocks, that will allow a PC based P3 librarian app to request 
individual parts and patterns, or indeed the whole memory.
There is a nice little application to do this already in the works, 
which I hope will see the light of day soon. It's being rather 
impressively written without the use of a real P3, so I expect great 
things when the author actually has one !

If you're paying very close attention, you may also notice that 
despite these new features, this build is smaller than the last one.
I've had my optimising hat on...

Cheers,
Colin f