[Per-Anders Edwards]

Than-you John. learn something new every day!

How about the behavior of selections in the timeline?  I don’t see anything in those notes about it but prior to the update duplicating with modifier + drag would leave the previous clips selected which made quick work on duplicating out a long region (would really love to have a “loop drag/expand” feature there ideally), now only the duplicated item is left selected, which does make sense as well but slows down the previous workflow.  If this is  a new feature is there an option somewhere to go back to the old behavior?

[Per-Anders Edwards]

Sure, this is what it looks like in Reason.

Thinking back there could be another explanatio :

After the OSX update Reason’s save window is behaving badly so I switched to S1 for a session and launched SD as an AU for the first time ever.  Possibly this caused it?

I don’t recall if I’d already tried out SD before that, at the time SD worked (although it crashed a few too many times for my liking so in the end I gave up on that whole cursed session).

When I next loaded up SD in Reason it started up with a message saying something like it was updating it’s midi library.  After that the text was garbled.

 

I’ve since tried going to the advanced prefs and selecting “Restore MIDI Database” to no avail.  It still looks like the attached screenshot.

[Per-Anders Edwards]

Need surf kthnxbye

[Per-Anders Edwards]

Thanks for the thoughtful response.

 

Re. User MIDI – Thanks.  I didn’t know the folders would be used for the family pane.  That helps a lot, though I’d still love to be able to tag what’s a fill, verse, chorus etc.

 

Re. Adding a drum in.  I’d be totally happy if it just added a default first drum in list when beats were added, just for the extra instrument and midi note lane.

 

Re. Multipart drums.  Ah, cool.  How do I do that in the “Edit Play Style” tab?

 

Re. Tap to Find – Yeah I think sort of that.  I think we’re talking about the same thing.  In my head I envisioned it sort of being a bit like the song creator right now in that you drag in a midi section that you like that matches your “tap to find” beat to get the “family”, but rather than using prebuilt rhyme scheme/stanza/patterns it’d basically assume you would prefer to keep in the same family and then do repeated match/find and fill Tap to Find for the whole rest of the input getting the nearest possible that also matches the family you liked, or alternatively it would try to figure out the pattern from the source midi track and then just work with song creator as now just using this “custom” user pattern.  Could be a fun deep learning project (I still have to find time to play around with that stuff, got about a bazillion ideas, no follow through, like every mudlark).  Anyhow, just throwing that out there, it’s been something I’ve dreamed of having as a “virtual drummer” for yonks now, but I know how hard it is to find time and resources when you’ve got a lot on already.

 

Thanks again.

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