Analogue-sequencer

> I also really liked being
> able to copy and edit patterns/bars without the pattern/bar having to
> be active in a playlist.

In v4, when you change the bar length of a pattern, the end loop point is
set to the new last bar *unless* you hold FUNC.
So to increase the length of a pattern without having the new bars play:
* go to page 4
* hold FUNC then press and release step 1 to ensure that the end of the bar
loop is bar 1
* hold FUNC + 'bars' (F1) and set the new bar length

All the new bars will be amber.

> I'd like to see a shortcut for selecting the bar you want to edit 
> directly from any page in pattern-edit, without having to go to page 4
> to select it first. This would greatly improve the multi-bar-pattern
> thing for me.

Use the DATA knob - it scrolls through the bars in all but page 7 (Sculpt).

> * One thing I find really annoying is that when I switch to a new part
> in a bank I can't select a previously made pattern in any track in
> that part. If i'm not mistaken I'd have to save a pattern to a new
> part before I actually switch to that part..

Being able to ghost a pattern from another part/track in play mode is TBI.

> * Another thing that I find myself disagreeing with is the inability
> to ghost only certain bars of patterns instead of a complete pattern.

I thought about how that might be allowed, but it gets too complex and
memory hungry.
Each pattern is based on a pointer to the first bar, then each allocated bar
points to the next bar.
A pattern could point to a bar in the middle of another pattern as its first
bar, and have a bar length of 1, but then if you shortened the original
source, what would happen ? And you couldn't have a ghosted part of a
pattern with the bars in a different order.
I felt it's easy enough to ghost a pattern to a new location, copy the
section you want to the start of the pattern, then 'save new'.

> With v3 I often have tracks in different parts with playlists in which
> one pattern is alternated with a number of others: 
> 1|2|1|3|1|2|1|4 and 1|5|1|3|1|6|1|4, or
> 1|2|2|3, 1|2|2|4 and 5|2|2|3 for example. With v3 i'd use 6 1-bar
> patterns in the 1st example and 5 1-bar patterns in the 2nd, where
> with v4 i'd use 2 8-bar patterns in the 1st example and 3 4-bar
> patterns in the 2nd. That's 6 or 5 "bars" used with v3 against 16 or
> 12 in v4...

There's a solution for the less efficient use of space in that sort of case
in development.
More news if it works...

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