>>Try doing set length abs<<
it worked. I don't know why it didn't work when I first selected it,
but it works now.
anyone else finding the new aux selection pages a bit tricky? seems
to take me quite a while & any number of "func+aux" to get
from "cc#1" to "inter track" to "aux note" to "aux note abs". I think
I may in future do a lot of the aux setups in advance, into empty
patterns. I have gravitated towards using certain tracks for certain
things- percussion here, chords here & so forth.
the crystal change, new cpu & software load all happened painlessly
last week in the rehearsal room; I was able to load beta 26 & a load
of patterns from my yamaha data-filer. now, ironically & for the
first time, my two p3's are in the same room. terrible gear failures,
I've had.....
were any of you at HJ4 on saturday? you might have noticed that I
wasn't paying the p3 much attention during the gig. this was because,
about ten minutes into our soundcheck, our proteus module decided to
pack up. so I had to reprogramme... try to extract near-equivalent
timbres from an alesis s4+, & hope it didn't run out of polyphony.
great box, the s4... very under-rated, but we still lost a lot of
functionality.
the proteus' power supply turned out to be fried, probably
condensation from being in the van all night.
right after this, we also lost our power-amp & so had to rely on the
supplied monitoring system instead of our own. ours is louder. this
is probably why, at the end of our set, the house PA started making
horrible noises...
but we muddled through. gave the vostok a little run too.
I had a closer look at the schrittmacher too (three of them). nice
display & encoders, but it makes you realise how spoilt we are with
the p3's extended functionality, not to mention v.f.m.
I read the schritt's manual again just now- it seems to be a sort of
uber-maq. one could imagine quite easily running out of ways to
generate data for an even moderately complex arrangement, whereas my
p3 often has two or three whole tracks lying idle because the active
racks are doing so much. you could run a small orchestral arrangement
from a p3....
I've found that I'm using a whole set of a track's patterns to store
a sequence with more complex timing requirements & a lot of notes.
so there'll be two tracks set to the same midi channel: the active
part controls which set of 8 patterns is actually playing.
this works ok but I'd quite like the freedom to allocate a bank's
patterns (64, in my current config) freely amongst the tracks.
I might, for instance, always use track 1 in live-input mode, while
track 8 is playing some long chord/note sequence that needs all 8
patterns because of the resolution. this means a chunk of memory is
unused & unusable in this arrangement.
here's something else that would be really useful: I have been
programming a lot of chord sequences into the p3. this is a bit
laborious since it involves setting up the auxes (see above) & then
entering the 2nds, 3rd & even 4ths for each chord.
I know colin mentioned being able (one day) to capture chords
straight into the auxes: how would this work? put the lowest note
into the note-step & then write the next highest into each aux in
turn?
would the auxes have to be pre-armed to expect notes? would
temporarily disabling the corresponding aux/step "protect" a note
from being overwritten?
but how about, in the meantime, being able to copy/paste from another
pattern straight into an aux that's been set up to play notes? would
that be simpler to implement &/or operate?
so one would record the root notes into a pattern, then on another
track /on the same channel/ record a pattern with the 2nds, then the
3rds, & so on..... then paste these patterns into the auxes alongside
the original root notes. & then, of course, the other tracks are free
again, to be used on another channel.
nagle (if he's out there, if anyone's out there....) will probably
tell us that there's already a way to do this, by getting an aux to
grab notes from another track... but doesn't this push the grabbed
values onto the main note steps, rather than the aux notes?
enough. back to work.
d/r.m.i.