Analogue-sequencer

josh wrote:
> This continues to hamper my workflow, because even when going through
> what I thought was a way to switch the edit pattern (as mentioned
> before- entering playlist edit, selecting step, exiting and back to
> pattern edit)This doesn't always work!!! 
>   

I can't quite understand your problem here.  I personally edit
patterns that I select from playlist edit all the time - and this
technique has *always* worked. From playlist edit, you hold down Edit
in combination with the pattern you want to edit. Do your edity stuff.
Then, when you save the pattern, the P3 automatically saves it to the
correct pattern number (i.e. the one you entered). You do have the
option to save, instead, to another pattern number when you exit but
this has to be a deliberate choice. 
In terms of hampering workflow, I am personally pretty darn fast at
doing this due to the very fast key response of the P3. Like anything
else, with practice, you get faster and faster so  maybe it's just a
matter of familiarity? 
I know it would be ace if the P3 had the capacity to keep all patterns
in an edit buffer and thus you could leap gracefully between them but,
hey, it can't so let's just rejoice in the things it can do.

We should maybe stage a race between the P3 and any other hardware 
sequencer with the type of pattern edit features you describe? Count
me in for that. Whizz bombs away!

:)

Paul

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