Analogue-sequencer

> anyone else finding the new aux selection pages a bit tricky?

Yep...
It's not quite as slick as I'd like.
I'm thinking about it.

> were any of you at HJ4 on saturday?

I heard about it elsewhere.
Ouch.

> I've found that I'm using a whole set of a track's patterns to store 
> a sequence with more complex timing requirements & a lot of notes. 
> so there'll be two tracks set to the same midi channel: the active 
> part controls which set of 8 patterns is actually playing. 
> 
> this works ok but I'd quite like the freedom to allocate a bank's 
> patterns (64, in my current config) freely amongst the tracks. 
> I might, for instance, always use track 1 in live-input mode, while 
> track 8 is playing some long chord/note sequence that needs all 8 
> patterns because of the resolution. this means a chunk of memory is 
> unused & unusable in this arrangement.

That's not beyond the scope of the way P3 manages pattern data, but it is
limited by some of the other data structures, which only have 4 bits to hold
a pattern number.
Maybe next time ;-)

> here's something else that would be really useful: I have been 
> programming a lot of chord sequences into the p3.

Really ? I've been recording them in live.

> I know colin mentioned being able (one day) to capture chords 
> straight into the auxes: how would this work?

When you go into real-time record, if the pattern you are recording into has
any auxes assigned to 'aux note abs', they will be written with whatever
notes you happen to be holding. The most recently played note is written to
the primary note value, to retain compatibility with mono recording of
legato.
It's a little bit different from the way a normal sequencer records
polyphonically, in some ways a bit limiting, but in others, actually very
interesting.
It needs a bit more work, but there should be a public beta of this soon.
I'm going to have to change the way 'aux note abs' works, which may cause
compatibility issues unless I leave the old event in and add a new one, or
P3Tools comes to my rescue...

Best regards,
Colin Fraser
Sequentix Music Systems Ltd
http://www.sequentix.com