Analogue-sequencer

> >>I did plan at one time to add some user slots for macros, where you 
> >>would be able to save the current aux settings from the pattern for 
> >>later recall.<<
> 
> damn. presumably no plans to do that now?

Not unless I win the Euromillions.
Then I'll have one of my dev team do it for you ;-)
When I looked into what would be needed, I thought it would really some way
to identify the stored aux setups, otherwise you'd have to remember what
each user preset was. That was going to be a lot of new string handling and
so on.

> >>There is a later P3 OS, v4.5, which handles patterns 
> differently, and I've used that for much longer than v4.
> I should post that one up.<<
> 
> is right! what's different? does it use the mem-x? 

It's very similar to v4 in all but pattern assignment.
In v4, each pattern 'belongs' to a specific part and track.
8 parts x 8 tracks gives you 64 patterns per bank.
You can assign a pattern to any other location by ghosting it there.
But you can't un-assign a pattern from its original location without putting
it somewhere else, or deleting it.

v4.5 has a pool of 64 patterns per bank.
Patterns can be used in any part/track location, but they don't belong to
any specific one.
There is no concept of a 'ghost'. If you want to use a pattern in more than
one location, you just select the same pattern from the pool in more than
one location. If you deselect a pattern from the only place it was used, the
pattern still exists in the pool until you explicitly delete it.
When you edit a pattern, you get a choice of 'save orig', or 'save new'.
That either saves the changes to the original pattern, or creates a new
pattern in the pool and updates the edited track to point to the new
pattern.
Any other selections of the original pattern will still use the original
pattern.

I found it conceptually a lot easier than the whole ghosting thing.
It also works with the v4.0 sysex dumps, though you'll end up with pattern
numbers that hint at the part/track locations the patterns came from.
There is also limited support in P3 Tools 2 for a dump from v4.5, since P3
Tools wasn't design with unallocated patterns in mind.
Anyway, I've posted it up to the download page at sequentix.com
Make a backup of your P3 data before installing it !

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