Changing memory settings stops playback on static machines (and a solution!)

[Eaves]

I think I found a bug (unless it’s user error), and a solution in case anyone runs into this issue:

Problem:
I had a nice pattern going and wanted to record some bass. The record buffers weren’t long enough, so I enabled dynamic recording. Suddenly all my tracks were quiet, they didn’t even switch to the play icon when I hit play (except the thru-machine on T7)!

Solution:
Turns out I could fix it by going into audio edit mode (AUD) and preview a slice (FUNC+YES). From then on, the track played as normal. Did this to all the other tracks too, and boom! Back to normal.

Edit: A quicker solution is to save and reload the project after changing memory settings, if you have lots of samples in the static sample pool (Thanks @Clancy!)

[Microtribe]

This is normal.
When you go into memory setting (to get at dynamic recorder options) a pop does tell you playback will be stopped when saving new settings.

[Eaves]

It does, but when I hit play afterwards, the stop icons on the static tracks didn’t change to the play icon, it only happened on the thru-track on T7. Going into AED and previewing a slice on the static tracks changed the behavior back to normal when hitting play.

[Microtribe]

Weird. cant say Ive ever seen that behaviour.
I have a MK1, shouldnt make any difference though. Same OS.

Have you double tapped stop then play?

[Eaves]

I just tried changing the memory settings again (16s to 17s buffer length), the “playback will be stopped” message popped up. When I hit play, the static tracks don’t change to the play icon, but the thru-track does, and I saw that neigbhbour track on T2 and master track does so, too.

Edit: oh, and I tried double-stopping, too.

[Clancy]

An old bug

Dynamic recorders switch silences everything?

When I switch dynamic recorders on or off all my Flex and Static tracks fall silent. I’m not talking about record buffers being wiped, the actual samples from the pool are silent. The track trigs still flash when the sequencer runs but the track indicators do not show the play symbol. Here’s the weird thing - if i go in to edit the waveforms the sample i’m currently editing starts playing when trigged, along with the play symbol coming back. This has to be done for all samples I want to restor…

[Clancy]

@Eaves

Solution:
Turns out I could fix it by going into audio edit mode (AUD) and preview a slice (FUNC+YES). From then on, the track played as normal. Did this to all the other tracks too, and boom! Back to normal.

It’s quicker to do a project reload

[Clancy]

@Clancy

An old bug

There has been some improvement over the years - memory setting changes used to mute all the flex slots too iirc

[Eaves]

@Clancy

It’s quicker to do a project reload

Change the memory settings, save the project, then reload the project?

[Clancy]

@Eaves

Change the memory settings, save the project, then reload the project?

Yes - unless you have only a few static slots in use - in which case I do what you’ve found - play the samples in the editor to bring them back

Just not something you want to do with lots of slots (it mutes the ones not assigned to machines too)

[Eaves]

Ahh, that’s good to hear! I was worried that saving the project when the samples wouldn’t play back would ruin it, so I didn’t try that. I have a handful of samples in the static sample slot that are sample-locked (instead of using the track’s default sample slot), so saving and reloading the project is a quicker solution for me. Thanks!