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Hi. Have tried to sideload through the playdate account site but “Modular play”would show up even after refreshing a few times.
I then booted the playdate into disk mode and moved the .pdx over manually to the games folder. But I then got the message below, that I needed a system update. I have the latest as you see in the second image. Any ideas?
Keep checking for updates over the next day or two, 2.1.0 is rolling out but takes a while to propagate to all devices: https://devforum.play.date/t/playdate-os-sdk-2-1-0-is-rolling-out/14139
thank you, yes, that’s fixed for the next release: https://github.com/orllewin/modular_play_public/milestone/1?closed=1
You’ve found some of the biggest bugs, they are in two areas:
If you can isolate specifically which modules cause any issues I can fix them immediately, otherwise I just have to make and save patches until I break something, over and over (which I do! but I have my favourite modules and methods so might not see everything you do).
The good news as soon as these types of bugs are isloated they’re pretty easy to fix, it’s just a case of finding which module is at fault
I got a screenshot of two loose cables. Patch is still working though. It is a mess for shure. The cable from the delay output and Microsynth are loose and when i remove the synth it is still there. The sequencer has been reset to all C notes when i load my patch.
The second patch (i posted on Instagram yesterday) has reset all values of the sequencer as well after i saved it and loaded it again. All to D. It is the first note of the sequence i guess... Too bad the notes arent saved with the sequencer, or is it a bug. And there is even a some things missing. I am really sure i saved everything. But you said allready there were some bugs in it. The things that are missing are a minisequencer and a wavetable synth.
And another minor thing is that the clock is doing weird things when you want to change something in a synth, like a preset. Or sometimes out of the blue doing a swing a couple of ticks. I dont mind that by the way….
We might have to live with this - it’s why I removed the BPM label that was in earlier versions of the clock module, the Playdate is single threaded and the processor is tiny - it’s working within these constraints that make it so much fun though. Originally I’d hoped to include a sync for the Pocket Operators but with the clock signal not being reliable it was too much effort.
The sound channel should be removed when you delete a sound source, I’ve seen simlar issues though, specific modules will be the cause so I’ll need to track down which.
re. clock sync/deta - yes, that’s annoying me too, I’ll add it as an enhancement. The clock should send a delta along with the bang event so different sequencers can be in sync.
This absolutely isn’t designed to be a eurorack simulator though, I knew people coming from that world would find some things odd!
Thank you, I fixed the 808 issue earlier because the 606 had the same problem. In fact I’ve fixed so many issues today I might do a second Alpha release earlier than intended. I’ll post a new release in a day or two that should have fixed all these most visible issues.
I have made a patch that I saved and seems to be corrupt and crashes when loading.
Running version:modular_play_0_0_12_2_alpha.pdx.zip
In the patch was a single clock running to chains.
Clock >
> Micro Sequencer > Wavetable > basic output
> OR-808 > basic output
Not sure if this helps but captured this after crashing.
This is a strange one, when you save and reload a patch it adds the modules in the order you added them, then adds the cables in the order you added them… so there’s something strange going on here - could you email the patch to oppen@fastmail.com and I’ll take a look. It’s saying there’s no audio channel available for some synth or effect, but if they’re re-added in order there should be.
I think I’ve fixed this, the issue was in the Micro Sequencer. Following your steps to build the patch then save threw an error - Micro Sequencer is an older module and wasn’t following the expected naming convention internally. So I think the error happend on save causing a bad save file. Fix will be in the next Alpha in a day or two.
Okay, this is the kind of bug I expect to see quite a lot of - adding and removing modules is tricky, when you delete a module it’s supposed to inform all connected modules that it’s being removed - so they can clean-up and unplug cables and reset their state… if a module doesn’t do that correctly when you come to reconnect it it thinks the sockets are still populated even though there’s no visible cable. I’ll havde a look at a patch with clocks, switches and dividers and try and replicate.
It’s an easy fix once I’ve found where it’s happening! If it does happen it’s pretty unrecoverable, you can try deleting the module with the issue and then add a fresh version of it.
Side loaded via the Playdate website, on moving down and clicking the tutorial button at the very start it crashed and reset the Playdate, loaded it back up, placed the Pong Unit and Game of Life (very cool btw) and that seemed fine, though I'd check out the tutorial and got to the same button and tried again, got another crash and this message if it helps –
I updated to the latest version shortly before side loading.
oh jeez… I rerwrote the midi classes and removed too much. Not cool the tutorial crashes! Will get a fix in tomorrow, I need to fix all 3 ‘stochastic’ synths. That means some new fun modules will be launching tomorrow too.
Ok, fixed, download 0.0.13-Alpha - there’s also two new modules, one in Clock and one in Sequencers, don’t tell anyone: https://orllewin.itch.io/modularplay
Hi. Got a crash/restart with 0.0.13-Alpha. If I remember rightly I had a clock, generative, wave table, delay, and a channel pro.
I had removed a wrongly added output and (but the patch kept playing) I then added the channel pro and Linked to the delay. It then crashed as I cranked to in crease the volume on the channel.
thank you, fixed one already, the rest are here: https://kinopio.club/orllewin-modular-play-hobVkZawudc7bwByphsLx?present=true - trying Kinopio as an alternative to boring tickets in Github.
Thanks for the detailed report, that makes fixing bugs so much easier. I don’t get the constant crashes you report though, the buggiest area of the code is removing modules. That can create a bad state that makes everything subsequently misbehave. I fix the issues when I find them so it should get more and more stable. I’ll look through the crash reports you’ve posted and see what I can do.
Of course, I really appreciate the work you're doing, and look forward to sinking in when it doesn't crash on me. I don't know how to access the crash report the other user posted, but can send them if it's simple enough to tell me how.
Didn't mean to sound rushy, just saw the last post wasn't replied to. Gld to hear you're workign on the project still, I think it's amazing