You can create custom beat fills on the Play. To successfully create a beat fill, these exact steps must be followed. Deviating from the steps below can result in beat fills that do not populate the grid. The most important step is loading the folders in the order listed in step 2.
Create the Beat Fill Pattern
Create a New Project
Select “Load Files or Folders in the sample menu and load folders in the following order. (Sample folders MUST be loaded in this order):
Bass (reserved for future use)
Kick
HiHat
Snare
Create patterns with:
a. Kick on Track 1
b. Snares on track 2
c. Hats on track 3.
Save your project.
Note: All parameters will save to a beat fill. Beat fills will only populate 16 steps. Add chance actions to create beats with more variety.
Move the Pattern to the “Beat Fills” folder
Every pattern created in accordance with the steps above can be imported as a beat fill template by moving them into the beat fill folder on your SD card.
1. From a computer open the project folder. Then open the pattern folder and select the desired pattern.
2. Move it to the ‘BeatFills’ folder in the root directory.
3. Rename it to any name that fits the fill screen, such as “LoFi_1.pattern.”
4. Restart the Play. The beat should be available for beat, kick, snare, and hihat fill options.
I know it won’t be in the next update, but it could be added in the future. I think someone put in a feature request for melodic beat fills recently so I would suggest voting for that if you want to see it!
Hey you could make a special sample pack with bass inside the snare folder for example and use in this way while the bass track is added as a function:)
Thanks Polyend . This is excellent ! I was hoping we could have a feature where midi files can be converted to beatfills, so we could program those on a daw, save to SD and load it
Interesting idea, feel free to request it. However that might require writing some custom software, and I’m not sure the development team would have time to take on a project of that scope - Or it could be simple, I’m not sure.
So now that Bass and Melody Fills have been added to the firmware, can we get an update on this procedure? Specifically the load order of sample folders and track assignment.
This forum post appears to be the only source of instruction for this feature. It’s not in the manual, anywhere on the Polyend site, and this post is out of date.
Proper documentation is important. Please make an effort to keep up to date.
