Analogue-sequencer

> "global bar" isn't really global, is it? it acts at part 
> level, & it took me a few minutes to figure out that I could 
> set a different number for each part.... I like this, but I 
> wonder if "global bar" is the right name for what it does... 
> perhaps "part length" is more accurate.

That's the way it's always worked, guess you just noticed !
It isn't strictly part length, since in a part chain, part length would be
gbar * part chain reps steps.
It's global in the sense that it's global to all tracks.

> here's the tricky one though- I would like to be able to use 
> different FTS settings per part, not per bank. 

FTS settings are per part.
Your confusion probably comes from my mentioning that FTS user scales are
now at the bank level.
What that means is that each of 8 *user defined* scales are stored uniquely
for each bank.
So if you edit user scale 1 in bank 1, that's a different scale definition
to user scale 1 in bank 2, etc.
The idea behind this is that if you transfer a bank from one P3 v4 to
another, unless you have the same user defined scales set on both units, the
transferred bank may sound different.
With global user scales, you would have to check which scale number was
used, copy the definition over manually, and hope another bank on your
destination P3 wasn't using the same scale number.
In v4, the user defined scales belong to the bank.
And there are 8 for each bank, so you can have a different user defined
scale for every *part* in that bank.

> is there an option to.... um.... how can I explain this? I 
> have a long pattern & a short pattern in the same part. I 
> want the part to play the whole of the long pattern but for 
> the short pattern to only play once, & then "rest" until the 
> part loops around to the start again.
> but I don't want to make empty paterns to achieve this.

There are still some settings to be added at the pattern level.
These will include a pattern gbar sync, which will reset a pattern to step
1, bar 1 on gbar reset.
The gbar setting there at the moment synchronises each *bar* of a pattern to
gbar, rather than the whole pattern.
Once pattern level gbar is there, you would be able to set up a 2 bar
pattern, with 1 bar of notes, followed by an empty second bar.
Then you would set the bar loop points to play only bar 2.
This give the equivalent of a one-shot pattern, restarted on gbar, without
any need to work out how many reps to put on the empty bar.

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