Hi Colin,
I just downloaded V4 yesterday and spent a couple of hours with it. I
bow before you , Sir!
what a piece of work. I didn't go too much into the plists before, but
as soon as I downloaded V4 the whole thing just made sense to me.
Also, the bar edit menu is pure genius, specially the way you can
control loop points and control bar parameters with the upper knobs,
not to mention how intuitive it is to scroll between bars with the
data knob. I wonder if you can increase the amount of stuff you can
control this way? like last step per bar for example and maybe in the
future independent resolution per track(?).
ha! another one that completely amazed me was the automatic assignment
of CCs in the auxes. wow! this is what I always looked for in a
sequencer and never one seemed to get it. I think that's it, the P3 is
designed with music in mind and all the features are put in a clever
and intuitive manner. After so many frustrated attempts with other
sequencers/grooveboxes it's refreshing so see a product that just gets
it right.
so, yeah, I'm definitely going to have fun with this!
Rui
--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, "Colin Fraser" <colin@...>
wrote:
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>
>
> > There is one thing that I'm not able to do yet and I'd like to know if
> > I'm missing something. I'd like to record live into 2 chained
> > patterns. Is this possible? The way it is now it seems that both
> > patterns are getting the same 16 step sequence.
>
> You need to use 'play mode' record rather than 'edit mode' record.
> This is detailed in the manual.
>
> > Another question is about V4. What is it? is it a new OS? is there
> > more information about it available? where can i download it?
>
> V4 is a fairly extensive re-design of the way P3 lets you to chain
multiple
> patterns together.
>
> Under v3, each track has a fixed number of 'patterns' that can be
selected.
> The number of patterns depends on the memory layout selected - 3, 6
or 12
> banks.
> In 3 bank mode, you get 16 patterns per track, 6 banks gives 8
patters, 12
> banks give 4.
> The pattern selections across all eight tracks are stored in 'parts'
- with
> 8 parts per bank.
> The important point here is that all the parts in a bank share
access to the
> same fixed number of patterns for each track.
> Parts allow you to chain up to 8 different patterns so they play in
a loop,
> with transpose and repeats as required.
>
> Under v4, parts have become more like multi-track patterns - each
track in
> each part can have it's own unique pattern, with no limit on the
amount of
> pattern storage used other than the total memory available for the whole
> bank.
> You can create patterns that are up to 16 bars in length.
> This compares to v3 where all patterns were 1 bar long, and to get
anything
> longer you had to use the playlist in a part to chain a number of
patterns
> together.
>
> It's still in beta, but will have an initial release version in a couple
> more weeks.
>
> > If I'm starting to get my head around it I think I'll jump for the
> > most recent version.
>
> Although v4 is still not quite finished to a release standard, I would
> recommend if you are starting from scratch with a P3, you'll find v4
much
> easier to grasp conceptually. Learning v3 only to switch to v4 after
a few
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> weeks would seem like a bit of a waste of effort.
>
> Best regards,
> Colin Fraser
> Sequentix Music Systems Ltd
> http://www.sequentix.com
>