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Title: new firmware - everything's ok now?
Post by: thesoulcatcher on September 24, 2015, 11:20:43 am
so arturia kept their word and delivered a firmware upgrade with lotsa bugfixes.
I badly want to buy one, if its working as expected now, so please report your experiences after upgrading firmware :)
Title: Re: new firmware - everything's ok now?
Post by: ArguZ on September 24, 2015, 11:50:08 am
Just go and buy one and help us to make it even better...
Title: Re: new firmware - everything's ok now?
Post by: thesoulcatcher on September 24, 2015, 01:14:31 pm
Just go and buy one and help us to make it even better...

will def. buy one if it works properly now!
are there any plans for adding a "pattern chain" feature?

Title: Re: new firmware - everything's ok now?
Post by: Computer Controlled on September 25, 2015, 01:02:37 am
Patterns still don't change after end of current pattern playing.  Which is silly.  I don't get it.  I'm also reading of problems of it not sending sequences while being slaved.  Still needs much work!
Title: Re: new firmware - everything's ok now?
Post by: Zymos on September 25, 2015, 01:40:02 am
I've ONLY used it slaved. Of course it sends sequences.
Title: Re: new firmware - everything's ok now?
Post by: Steinberger on September 25, 2015, 01:43:58 am
I've ONLY used it slaved. Of course it sends sequences.

Me too but I also use with CV/Gate and don't get any of this quirky behavior people are talking about.
Title: Re: new firmware - everything's ok now?
Post by: teezdalien on September 25, 2015, 02:07:51 am
I've ONLY used it slaved. Of course it sends sequences.

Mine stopped working as a slave with the new firmware. I've had to revert back to 1.1.1.6 until Arturia get back to me and/or sort out this problem.
I use a Windows 10 (x64) machine fwiw.
Title: Re: new firmware - everything's ok now?
Post by: megamarkd on September 26, 2015, 01:30:22 pm
Patterns still don't change after end of current pattern playing.  Which is silly.  I don't get it.  I'm also reading of problems of it not sending sequences while being slaved.  Still needs much work!

It would be nice to have that feature, but I must say, I have another step-sequencer that does wait until the end of the current pattern before changing and when using that, there are many times I wished I could change to a particular pattern before the current one had ended.  The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill, that said, both modes would be great.  A perfect way to do this would be shift+pattern-up/down button.  If the BSP is to wait until the end of the current pattern before changing, then there potentially is plenty of time to use the pattern-up/down buttons to choose the sequence you want to change to.
Title: Re: new firmware - everything's ok now?
Post by: Computer Controlled on October 01, 2015, 09:12:02 am
Patterns still don't change after end of current pattern playing.  Which is silly.  I don't get it.  I'm also reading of problems of it not sending sequences while being slaved.  Still needs much work!

It would be nice to have that feature, but I must say, I have another step-sequencer that does wait until the end of the current pattern before changing and when using that, there are many times I wished I could change to a particular pattern before the current one had ended.  The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill, that said, both modes would be great.  A perfect way to do this would be shift+pattern-up/down button.  If the BSP is to wait until the end of the current pattern before changing, then there potentially is plenty of time to use the pattern-up/down buttons to choose the sequence you want to change to.

The BsP is the ONLY sequencer i've ever used that behaves the way it does.  All other sequencers behave in the "wait until end of pattern to switch" way. Which is how it should be.  Imagine if drum machines changed patterns right away, it would be a nightmare.  I work totally pattern based, on the fly. So i'm always hitting pattern buttons to switch sequences, and having to time it just right on the BsP is a work flow killer for me.  And i just can't fathom why they didn't fix this in the new update. They obviously didn't read the Feature Request thread =o]
Title: Re: new firmware - everything's ok now?
Post by: psn on October 01, 2015, 09:28:12 am
The BsP is the ONLY sequencer i've ever used that behaves the way it does.  All other sequencers behave in the "wait until end of pattern to switch" way.

The recent Elektrons (Rytm/Analog4)  let you choose whether you want to switch immediately or at the next pattern end.

The problem for Arturia is that each sequence can be of different lengths, so the issue is slightly complicated by having sequences that don't necessarily align at the end. Elektron solved the alignment issue by having a "master length" setting for the whole sequence.  Ie if the master length is 64, then the pattern will be considered to be anding ending after 64 steps, regardless of the length of the different voices' sequence length.
Title: Re: new firmware - everything's ok now?
Post by: RichMakeGame on October 01, 2015, 01:52:21 pm
My suggestion would be use the longest pattern, or if thats not possible then the drum track, since i think that determines the clock out resolution currently
Title: Re: new firmware - everything's ok now?
Post by: Valentin Arturia on October 02, 2015, 11:19:13 am
Hi,
We're working to implement the wait to change pattern for the next firmware. As RichMakeGame guess it will be lead by the drums.
Title: Re: new firmware - everything's ok now?
Post by: Hastur on October 02, 2015, 12:03:12 pm
Hi,
We're working to implement the wait to change pattern for the next firmware. As RichMakeGame guess it will be lead by the drums.

Great news ! Any ETA on this next firmware ?
Title: Re: new firmware - everything's ok now?
Post by: Rupertt on October 02, 2015, 07:49:59 pm
any word if you consider to change the start/stop from always high to just sending a short trigger?