Play 1.6.0 and Play Plus 1.2.0 MIDI Perform Mode Beta

For now what helps is to make a new empty project before powering off the play. Doing that enables the play to restart without having to delete the workspace folder from the sdcard.

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Thank you so much Mitch and all Polyend Team for your great work!

I agree, 2 sides of performance mode feels more natural. But we OG Play users donā€™t need the Delay and Reverb columns in MIDI Perform, as we donā€™t have bult-in synth engines. It would be more natural for us to let these columns behave like the Cutoff columns (send CC values from 0 to 127).

For example, you could assign the 4 knobs secondary CCs to the orange, yellow, blue and purple columns respectively, allowing us quick hands-on control for ALL the 8 CCs!
The first 4 using the knobs primary function, and the other 4 using the pads!
That would be an awesome feature for live performance, and would make the OG Play the ultimate MIDI controller! What do you think?

Thanks again!

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Hi @Mimivirus. Welcome to Backstage!

If you want to propose new ideas and features, please post them in a separate topic in Draft wishes. I also suggest reading the guidelines for wishes first.

Thanks @3xm . I created a Draft Wish for this feature. If anyone is interested (especially OG Play users!) you can modify it or join the discussion here :

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Found a strange bug with MIDI Fills. Am I the only one?

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Iā€™ve found out that the Bit Depth performance pad column works the opposite way in MIDI perform mode. The top pad corresponds to the maximum CC/macro value and the bottom pad corresponds to the minimum value. Iā€™ve accustomed to how it works in the audio side where pressing bottom pads induces more distortion. The Overdrive FX works as expected.

Also, I hope the betas make their way to the stable release with some bug fixes included before the new year.

my heart skipped a beat because i thought we would be able to control the play with external midi - but its just a feature that should have shipped with the initial release :expressionless:

@here new beta release is out: Play 1.6.0 and Play Plus 1.2.0 Beta #2

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