Analogue-sequencer

>>Is there a Beta manual to v4 available?<<

there's a note in the files section that explains the fundamental
difference, which is that playlists are gone... each track can have an
enormous multi-bar pattern instead of the 16-step max we were used to,
& you can set loops within the pattern.... copy bars as ghosts without
using extra memory, & transpose the ghosts....

(but how do you stop it looping & play the end of the pattern? does it
support multiple loops? can loop settings be copied or somehow
automatically applied to some/all of the tracks? will there ever be a
midi remote command to make playback stop looping & play the coda of a
piece when one has had enough of extemporising over the looped section?)


I guess this raises more questions than it answers. I tried v4 a while
ago, & didn't like it, but recent changes in the way my band writes
stuff mean that v4's more "linear" approach to arrangement is a better
fit than it was. 
probably. 
still trying to figure it out.

but thank heavens the timebase setting is now global for all the bars
of a pattern unless you don't want it to be. that was threatening to
be a nuisance until colin changed it.... :-) aux configs next, please.

so I have one v3 machine & one v4... I need to copy the contents from
the v3 into the v4, but I'm going to do it as a real-time midi "dub"
rather than use sys-ex & the p3 tools mk2. mainly because I use a mac,
but also because I will learn more about (how to use) the new
arrangement of the memory this way.

I have a question myself- I have memory upgrade kits for both
machines, & have fitted the expansion to the v4 machine, largely on
the basis that this commits me to the new architecture. (I know it
doesn't, but it helps if I think it does)

but I can't remember what the effect is on the internal layout of the
p3's memory- do I get more banks? bigger patterns/more bars per
pattern? can't remember, can't find clues anywhere....

help!

duncan.