multiple parts... names of instruments in mixer become shuffled.

KD Jones
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multiple parts... names of instruments in mixer become shuffled.

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The other day I was working on a sketch that required multiple loops. I was using 3 instruments (bass, drums and organ), but had multiple loops for each except for the bass.

At some point, some of the organ parts were suddenly labelled "drums," and vice versa.

The loops were still OK, and I could figure it out, but it was kinda cumbersome...


(If this is a precursor to some kind of "auto mutate" function, um... never mind...)

- KD Jones

mat
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Hi, I just apparently had the

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Hi,

I just apparently had the same problem: multiple parts, added one drum track to five existing tracks, found it very bad and deleted it: (bad) surprise my (bad) drum track was still there (die, you zombie bad drum track!) but replaced a dulcimer (which I liked!) part which was still labelled dulcimer! Worse: although I saved everything before, my saved version (which did not include the bad drums) was altered the same way (good dulcimer replaced by bad drums, never seen good dulcimer again...).

This is a bad problem as in the mixer I will have to mute and check everything every time now, before deleting a track which could have exchanged its label with another, and of course may end up with parts named the wrong way (which is not the main problem anyway, good dulcimer, I miss you...). Jesse, you told once to someone asking for a sequencer feature that ThumbJam was a Zen experience in terms of making music, I'm kind of trying hard not to lose to much good karma right now! Om....Om....Om....

Damit!

Mat

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Jesse
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OK, and this is probably

Post by Jesse »

OK, and this is probably important, was there any saving or loading going on between when things were fine, and when things got broken? This kind of information is important when trying to reproduce the issue.


mat
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Thanks for your usual fast

Post by mat »

Thanks for your usual fast answering. I did not load or save anything but I closed and reopened Thumbjam a lot (so if an autosave is linking the saved song and the last session it may be a yes...). I'm not sure though if I quited the app and returned since the addition of the faulty drum track, probably yes, at least once as I tend to be interrupted a lot (my kids around). Hope this helps.

Mat

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Hi, had a crash this morning,

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Hi, had a crash this morning, but it seems unrelated (I can send you the crashlog if you want), it happened during instrument creation if I recall correctly. The reason why I mention it here is because during instrument creation the work in progress (i.e. The loops currently displayed) disappears. I then went to load again the loops I've saved (thinking I had lost was was done since saving) and noticed my work was auto saved on the same file. This is quite dangerous: I tend to save when I'm pleased and then experiment, I rarely want my experimentation to replace my saved work until I really decide it. Maybe an auto save under an 'autosaved loops' file would be cool instead of the arbitrary replacement of the originally (and voluntarilly) saved file (and this is how my precious dulcimer part went to hell, I'm still struggling to produce a decent replacement without much success to date... Frustrating...).

Mat

DarroS
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I´ve had the same problem.

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I´ve had the same problem. What I have noticed is that always happens when receiving a call or when responding to a notification of another app while you are using TJ (Verified with two different iphones).

DarroS
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Some solution?

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Some solution?

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Jesse
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The auto-save should only be

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The auto-save should only be saving to the Default name when you quit the app. I have not been able to reproduce some of these issues yet. There have been reports about issues/crashes when dealing with app interruption by incoming calls etc, I will try to look into those as well.

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Jesse
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Just checked, and you are

Post by Jesse »

Just checked, and you are right Mat, it appears that a named saved loop actually auto-saves back to itself on app quit. That is bad, and I will fix it.

And yes, could you send a crash log for your other crash?

mat
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Good thing about the faulty

Post by mat »

Good thing about the faulty auto-save (BTW what will be the app behavior at instrument creation time? Is it normal that it is erasing work in progress or did I do something wrong?), thank you.

I'm sending you my crashlogs by email right away.

Mat

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