From what I understand projects are eventually supposed to be 100% transferrable between Tracker + and Tracker Mini. Is Tracker Mini Firmware 2.0 the point at which this is actually true? If it is, what is the correct way of doing so? Can you copy over the SD card wholesale, or only certain directories?
With Mini Firmware 2.0 now out - yes this is that point. You can now share projects/patches between the Mini and the Tracker+ without issues.
There’s no correct way per se. You can transfer the entire projects folder and patches folder. or just copy individual projects and/or patches from one device to the other.
I wouldn’t copy the entire card though (would needlessly take too long).
Thank you Sandroid - in regards to samples used in the project, do those come along in the projects folder, or would I need the sample folder to be the same across SD cards?
Scale is set on a global level and not part of an individual project. So this does not affect the project files or your pattern/instrument/patch data at all. So the projects are completely fine and sharable.
But you are right - the random fx will take notes from the chromatic scale on the mini for now.
It affects the output of a project, so it doesn’t really matter if it is a project or global setting. If the global settings that affect how the device functions are not compatible between devices, then the underlying projects are not compatible.
And yes, I understand there are global settings that would be hardware specific that wouldn’t apply to both devices. This is not one of those, since it fundamentally changes how the random note fx behaves in the sequencer.
I understand that. Not corrupting a project is not the same as being functionally compatible, though. A project using random note fx can/will behave differently depending on what device it is running on right now. And yes, I know that even if the global setting was already in the Mini this could still happen, but you would at least have the option to change the setting so it would behave the same.
Frankly, I don’t understand why the global scale wasn’t in the Mini from day one, but at the very least I assumed it HAD to be in 2.0 for project compatibility between the Tracker+ and the Mini. I guess I’m just the weird one that doesn’t find the chromatic scale all the useful for random notes.