Announcing Play+ Firmware 1.1

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RELEASE NOTES

Play+ 1.1.0 adds the PERC drum machine to the line-up of Play+’s synthesizer engines, and also includes important bug fixes.

NEW FEATURES

  • A fifth Synthesizer model: the PERC

FIXES

INSTALLATION GUIDE

  1. Download and extract the firmware at polyend.com
  2. Copy the .ppf firmware file to your Play SD card > Firmware folder
  3. Extract the PERC factory presets from the zip file.
  4. Copy the Perc folder to your Play SD card > Patches
  5. Optional: save your current project to avoid any potential data loss
  6. In Play navigate to Settings > Firmware > Update Firmware > .ppf file
  7. Click the encoder and confirm with Yes
  8. After update create a new project to initialize the config settings
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Thanks for the fix, with wrong order.

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incredibly disappointed to see that this problem didn’t get addressed. it makes my Play+ nearly unusable. as mentioned in the other thread, i have attempted every fix suggested and still, the sample folders disappear upon making and reopening a new project.

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Could you please clarify. Are you reopening an old project or starting a new project?

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Nice, thanks!

I’m looking at the video announcement on YouTube, could somebody (@Mitch?) clarify what “with up to five drum hits playable simultaneously using only one of the eight available Synth voices” means?

By voices, do you mean tracks? There were only 4 different types of synths so far, so I assume that’s not what “voice” means. But if this means “tracks”, how can five drum hits be playable on one single track? Can you put 5 “hit” on the same pad?

Thanks

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the 5 perc drums you can play simultaneously only take up 1 of the 8 available synth voices.
you are able to use 3 synths at a time, and 8 voices between them. perc’s internal drums count as a single voice.

you still need multiple pads to sequence perc’s drums simultaneously

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Oh the polyphony! Thanks. Case of the Mondays…

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Na it is confusing, kinda hard to explain but this is correct,

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Seconding this. Super bummed. This issue has rendered the Play+ unusable for me. It happens 100% of the time.

EDIT: After taking another look at the thread, I can confirm that this workaround does seem to fix the issue for me: Sample Pool folders disappear after restart and project load - #21 by divergent

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I update the firmware and after that I create a new project to initialize the config settings, but there is no Perc drum machine. What’s happening here?

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That is displaying the 3 synth slots and what is currently assigned to each slot. You just have to click on one of those slots and you’ll see the available synth, including Perc

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Yeah! Thanks a lot!

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My pleasure. Many of us have been there before :slight_smile:

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yes, sorry, when i reopen an old project. I make a new project, load sample folders, save the project, and reopen it, and all the sample folders are gone. just as discussed in that linked thread.

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Got it! Thanks :slight_smile:

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Once the ZIP is extracted, the Perc folder is “Perc” on macOS, not “PERC”. I don’t know if case sensitivity matters on the SD card itself, but maybe the instructions need to be updated accordingly if that’s the case.

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Excellent Job :+1:

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Thank you very much :slight_smile:
I have a question about the beta and the official release… Sorry if it’s too obvious…

I guess midi and synth perform is not covered on official release… Are the beta firmware upgrades going to be implemented in a future official upgrade? I thought that beta FW would be included in the official version…

Sorry for the English.

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The betas are out there for people to try out and find bugs and quirks that need to be fixed. When the development team feel things are good and stable, they will be included in an upcoming “official” firmware.

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