Analogue-sequencer

--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, "colinfraser_com" 
Hi Colin,
I just checked the new firmware, and at first sight it seems that the 
problem of weird jomox behaviour has been solved. Thanxs for that, if 
I notice other weird thingies I let you know.
Cheers,
Roel 



<colin@c...> wrote:
> 
> 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