Analogue-sequencer

> A (probably obvious) question re: 4.5: I don't 
> get an option for saving a changed pattern: if I come out of 
> edit and back into play the pattern is saved automatically. 
> Is this right?

Have you got the user conf option for "auto save edits" turned on, by any
chance ?

> Another question: is there a sysex document for 4.5 
> sufficiently detailed to hack together a librarian for it?

It uses the same sysex format as v4.0
The data structures are the same, but the interpretation of the data is
different.
In v4.0, there are 64 possible pattern slots, in as much as there could be a
pattern for each track in each part.
Each of these pattern slots 'belongs' to the part/track number where it is
created.
A ghost pattern is where a pattern is assigned to a part/track number other
than the one where it was created.

In v4.5, the ownership link between part/track locations and patterns is
removed.
Each track in each part points to a pattern number.
There are 64 pattern slots.
There is no concept of 'ghost' patterns any longer, simply patterns that are
assigned in more than one part/track location.
It may make more sense once you use it a little.

You can load a v4.0 dump into v4.5.
Say you have a v4.0 bank, with a pattern in part 1/track 1, another in part
1/track 2, and the pattern from part 1/track 1 saved as a ghost to part
2/track 1.
in v4.5, the pattern from part 1/track 1 becomes pattern 1. The pattern from
part 1/track 2 becomes pattern 2.
The 'ghost' pattern assignment that was on part 2/track 1 simply becomes an
assignment of pattern 1 in that location.

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