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P3 v3.83 beta uploaded

2004-01-04 by colinfraser_com

Folks,

I've uploaded a new firmware image to the Yahoo files.
This is v3.83 of the P3 firmware which has an important difference 
to a typical firmware upgrade - please read on before updating !

The major change made in this version was the moving of the aux 
config data from a separate array in memory, to the spare upper 
nybbles of the length bytes in the pattern data.
This means that unless you do a sysex backup and restore of your P3 
memory before and after updating to v3.83, you will lose any aux 
config numbers you may have set up.
Note that the controller values on each step are not moving - 
just the controller numbers configured using the 'aux conf' softkey.

The purpose of this change is to free up the 1536 bytes of memory 
used by the 'aux conf' data for future code additions to implement 
the auxilliary controllers that will do more complex stuff than just 
sending midi CCs.
There isn't really any other useful stuff added, but it'd be helpful 
if users would upgrade to this build so I find out if there any 
fixes needed before I get too far into using the newly freed RAM.

Also, I will not be continually reminding users of the difference in 
memory layout between the previous version, and all future versions 
each time there is an update.
If you don't update now, please remember the next time you do update 
that you will lose your aux conf settings unless you take a backup.

Cheers,
Colin f

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