Notes scatter spread issue

[housefreak303]

Just purchased Polyend Tracker + and very excited to start making tunes as was a hardcore OctaMed user back in the early 90’s.

I am having a few issues with the device. First off when trying to play a melody it, is spreading it across all tracks which is a bit odd as I’m not playing chords. Another issue is when using one of the built in synth engines when I start recording and start playing, it starts recording odd random notes. This is making it very frustrating to work with. I can’t imagine this would be set like this as default.

I have made sure i’ve upgraded the firmware to 1.0.2.

Any help would be appreciated.

[sebastian.reichmann]

As for the spreading issue: Try and disarm the tracks you don’t want to be recorded on. You do that with Shift+Rec and then use the display buttons.

That’s currently the only way to prevent that behavior (that I know of…).

I personally would prefer “exclusive arm” as default behavior instead of having everything armed all the time…but oh well…

Somebody else might need to help you with the synth issue, b/c I haven’t had this issue yet…

Also…welcome!

[housefreak303]

Thanks Sebastian will try that. Forgot to mention the other issue is in a 32 length pattern, It only records on the first 16 steps in note mode which I can’t understand why. I am hoping I have not got a faulty unit batch. It’s just these would be odd default settings to have on startup.

[sebastian.reichmann]

Can’t come up with a reason for the 16/32 issue but I bet others can. I’m quite new to Tracker+ myself.

@housefreak303

I am hoping I have not got a faulty unit batch.

…doesn’t really sound like a hardware issue, tbh. But wait until @Sandroid or @dan.lgrnd read this thread, they’re far more knowledgeable.

[Sandroid]

Hey @housefreak303, welcome to Backstage! It’s good to have ya (Protracker User myself back in the days).

You may be experiencing the following bug:

OFF messages are not placed correctly during Live-Recording when Recording Options is set to Only Notes

Bug Description When General → Recording Options is set to Only Notes the OFF message is not placed when releasing the pads (or only sometimes). This causes follow up notes to be placed in the next adjacent columns. This affects all the instrument types (Samples, Synths & MIDI) Correct behaviour would be that when you release a pad, that OFF message is placed. Workaround for now: You can circumvent this behaviour by setting the Recording Options to Microtiming or Microt…

A fix is currently in testing and will hopefully be released soon.

[housefreak303]

HI Sandroid, thanks for the quick reply. Ah yeah protracker the good old days.
I have rolled back to firmware version 1.0.1 for now as it seems to work properly on that version. I tried the micro timing trick as you suggested as well, but in that mode it is unquantized etc. I hope there will be an option to turn off auto note off as I always preferred to enter them manually.

Will keep a look out for the fix. I was just worried that it might have been a faulty unit etc.