Analogue-sequencer

>>They allow you to set a loop start and end point in a pattern, so
that bars up to the loop start will play through once when the pattern
is first selected or P3 started, but then the pattern loops round the
bars between the loop start and end.<<

ooh- like a tb303? :-) I can get me head round that! can you stop it
looping so it carries on to the end then? will there be a remote
command for that? cool.... ("lads, the middle 8's going to be a middle
17, ok?")

>>The main advantage in v4 is that you have multi-bar patterns, and
the pattern is unique to the part & track it is on.
Unlike v3, there is no common set of single-bar patterns that must be
shared between all parts, so you don't have to worry about some bars
of your pattern being used in another part, which you might go and
edit...<<

I'm starting to overcome my conservatism & see the benefits of this...
definitely good for those of us who occasionally deliberately
compromise our.... erm.... what was I saying? 

>>The other unexpected advantage of v4 is that you can very easily
save a pattern (as a new pattern or a ghost) to another *track*, which
makes building up composite sounds very simple.
And since you can save a pattern as a new pattern to another part, you
can very easily keep a safe copy of a pattern you intend to mess about
with heavily.<<

gotcha. that all sounds sensible. one bank config, with 16 banks.
completely dynamic allocation of pattern memory. what was the bit
about the user scales, a complete set of 12 per bank?

wow. guess what I'll be doing this weekend. ah, but I need to spend
some time on the octopus too.... :-)

(paul, does that answer y'r question?)

duncan.