Hi, just noticed what seems to be a bug when using the “INSTANT” randomize feature – which is supposed to randomize tracks temporarily. If set to full “RANDOM” – as opposed to “REMIX” – clicking and holding “INSTANT” clears tracks 2 through 7, sometimes 8 as well. When “INSTANT” is released, track 1 and 8 if it wasn’t also cleared DO revert back to the original beat, but the other tracks remain empty. "INSTANT " seems to work as expected if “REMIX” is selected instead of “RANDOM.” Hope this makes sense. Hoping for a fix, because I have use/need to use both “RANDOM” and “REMIX” in conjunction with the “INSTANT” button, and it’s important for song flow and such that the full original beat is preserved and reverts back to original when “INSTANT” is released. THANKS!
Hi @bkbigfish
Thanks for reaching out. We can’t replicate this issue, is this happening with the VST3 version, the AU or the standalone?
Thanks for the reply. I’m running the ARM64 VST3 version in Bitwig Studio 6.0.6. Issue was present both before and after I downloaded and installed Playbeat v4.2.0. I hadn’t thought to check standalone Playbeat before writing, and I think I identified at least part of the problem.
Standalone, at a glance, works as expected, with default settings throughout. However, in my Bitwig VST, I have Playbeat set up to utilize linear groups. With one or more tracks toggled to linear group ON, INSTANT random clears tracks, and they remain cleared even after INSTANT is released (or its mapped CC turns off).
In this scenario, tracks that aren’t cleared by INSTANT revert back to baseline. (And, with linear groups turned OFF, “INSTANT” works as expected.) Now that I’m zeroed in on linear groups as the potential source of the issue, I can confirm that everything seems to work as expected when randomize is set to REMIX. So this behavior only shows itself with full RANDOM.
More observations: There does seem to be a relationship between which tracks have linear groups are turned ON and which tracks are cleared. However, the relationship doesn’t seem to be 1:1, because when all tracks have linear groups turned ON, all tracks are cleared when INSTANT is triggered except for track 8.
Anyhow, I hope this additional information helps you address this issue. I have noticed some quirks with randomize and linear-group tracks before. For example, auto-randomization (every X bars) back in Playbeat 3 used to ignore linear groups, which was sometimes annoying but not a major workflow disruption.
THANKS, and keep up the good work. Love me some Playbeat!