When i create a pattern within the 16/16 scale and decide to increase my scale to 32/32, must i program all the notes again to fill the 32/32 or is there a copy function i do not understand? I read the documentation and appears i can only copy a pattern to another bank, not copy 16 note to another expanded 16 notes for 32 total. Hope that makes sense.
Hello Noisemaker.
When you make a 16/16 pattern than change the scale to 32/32 it supposed to duplicate what you have made.
This however has been very buggy for me, so I often have to enter everything twice. I’m not sure why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.
Regards,
M.
^ this is simple:
it will only duplicate pages if there are no steps in the range that’s used to expand into…
so if you expand a pattern to 32 steps, put some steps into the 17-32 range, then reduce to 16 steps, make changes to the first page, and then expand it again, the first page will not be copied into 2nd page.
so this is not a bug… however, it would be great to have a method of copy/clear/paste pages for all tracks, not just one track (as well as step rotation for all tracks…)
what Dacava said, but you can also copy individual pages (= 16 steps) in individual tracks when you are in grid record mode (solid REC LED), hold the page/scale button, and copy/paste…
I wish this were the case, but it is not. I’ve experimented with this, clearing entire patterns, starting from scratch with a 16 step pattern, and then changing it to 32 steps, and not having the pattern carry over. So… perhaps it’s just my machine. I’ve tried re-installing the latest MDUW OS to see if it fixes the issue (as well as an empty reset).
Yes I can, but it’s inconsistent. I really cannot determine why sometimes it’ll work and sometimes it wont. My only suspicion is perhaps when you clear a pre-existing pattern, and program a new pattern, perhaps the previous length 32 step or 64 step is saved somewhere in the memory and doesn’t get cleared.
As stated, I’ve re-installed the latest operating system, did a factory reset as well as an empty restart. I’ve started making some new tracks… I will let you know if the issue persists.
Thanks for the replies! Seems like i will need to live with it. Building the patterns up to 4 bars seem slightly cumbersome but the good out weighs the bad. I will just get the core pattern in 16 then scale it up to 64 and edit the loop.
well the reason I’m wondering is, I’m working with algorithmic pattern creation, coding/decoding sysex etc… in other words, I’ve looked very closely at how the MD does stuff and never seen this happen.
I mean, it’s certainly possible that it is indeed a bug, my guts tell me that it’s more likely that this one is a misinterpretation on your side though…
Hello Void,
Okay… so it’s not me.
I just created a pattern from scratch, utilizing only machinedrum sounds. When I created the pattern, it was a 16 step pattern. I hit the shift button, selected the scale setup and changed it to 64 steps. None of the trigs, notes etc… carried over.
So… this problem is still happening, even after a reset etc… so I guess this feature is buggy, unless you can tell me I did something wrong above.
I’ve done this for some time know (roughly 1 year) sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. It is not working for me right now.
Regards,
M
PS… I was in record mode when I did this, I wonder if that’s the reason? I turned off record tried it again, but alas, nothing happened:(
I think I figured it out. When I select the pattern length, I was using the arrow buttons. I just tried it again, but instead of using the arrow buttons used the pattern length selection button to toggle between the various lengths. When I did this it worked fine. So, perhaps it was using the arrow buttons to make the pattern length selection that was #ucking things up.
I subscribed to this thread. I will let you know if this is permanent or just another glitch.
i dont know if you sorted it but was having a similar issue, I noticed as soon as you change to 32 from 16 you cant go back on it , I have to clear the pattern first and re write it in the 16 , so yeah make sure you dont change to 32 until you have everything in the first 16 then jump to 32 so on, im still new to this so i hope i have been some help , cheers