Analogue-sequencer

I have had a P3 for about a week now and although I have nothing but the utmost respect for this device, I am having a bit of trouble here and there figuring out what part of the manual to follow, and what parts are no longer valid due to OS updates.  I am currently running V4... and spent a few nights ago reading all about playlists... only to find out the next morning that V4 didn't have them!  Is the best thing to do just make do with the downloads from the website and make my own way through, or is there something I am missing?  Also, is the general consensus that memory organization in V4.5 the best?  Did people find the ghost patterns too difficult to deal with due to problems that arise when you try to change or move the original pattern?  I am thinking that I might like V4.5 because I just ordered a memX.  Thanks for any help.

Oh yeah.. And I have spent some time reading through the messages here and I did find a few that have Colin explaining V4.5.  That is probably enough to get me through it this week, but I just wanted to raise the question in case there was other information out there that might help me.  Thank you for any help.

> I am currently running V4... and spent a few 
> nights ago reading all about playlists... only to find out 
> the next morning that V4 didn't have them!

V4 replaced playlists with multi-bar patterns.
There is a fair degree of commonality between what you can do with these,
though as has been pointed out to me by fans of playlists, they had an
advantage in the speed with which you could try out different arrangements
of bars in a pattern. A playlist lets you use the same bar (pattern) in more
than one position.
For a v4 pattern, you have to make copies of one bar to use it elsewhere.

> Did people find the ghost patterns too 
> difficult to deal with due to problems that arise when you 
> try to change or move the original pattern?  I am thinking 
> that I might like V4.5 because I just ordered a memX.

I have to admit, I can't really remember the differences between 4 and 4.5,
I've been working on Cirklon too long...
I don't actually have a functional P3 here to look at, but I can pull one
out and replace whatever bits got borrowed.

If there are any specific questions you have, just ask them here, and I'll
pick them up when I can.

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