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Re: Mem x and v4 os

2008-08-27 by duncan

>>Do you find the V4 to be an improvement in terms of functionality?<<

"improvement"'s not the right word... it's different, & permits a
different approach to structuring one's compositions. at first, I
didn't like it & quickly rolled back to v3. later, I went at it again
with renewed vigour & determination. I put in the memory expansion too.

I think what's needed here is a pictorial representation of how the
memory of the machine is divided up. you can do a lot worse than look
at the p3tools s/w to see this. that's what turned me around (& for
which, many thanks!).

as regards the patterns themselves, they work pretty much the same.
it's when you start extending beyond a single 16-step "riff" & making
longer patterns, or copy/pasting things to edit, that the difference
really becomes apparent. 
ironically, the v4 approach means less memory is wasted by transposed
copied patterns, since you can now use ghosts. 

I think I'd still be stuck in v3 if it supported the mem-x, but v4
works for me now I've got my head round it.

d.

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