Rayzoon Technologies LLC

[J van E]

It's been a while since I worked with Jamstix... In my current project I have a very basic pattern programmed in Jamstix and I add accents and fills manually (midi). But I've got a problem... The cymbals keeps on adding random hits everywhere.

I've reset the patterns in the arranger a dozen times and set the Normal slider in the Cymbal part to zero. Still... the cymbals give accents every now and then. And it seems they are different every time I play the song too. I want them to shut up! I only want to hear them when I manually added a midi note for the cymbal! But I forgot how to get that done...

[Ralph [RZ]]

Please save your Jamstix configuration of that song to a FXB file via 'Save Bank' in your host and send it to support[at]rayzoon.com. I'll take a look and will advise you on why you still hear cymbals.
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Ralph Zeuner
Rayzoon Technologies LLC
http://www.rayzoon.com

[J van E]

Don't you just love quick support? Well, I do! After mailing the fxb file (on sunday) I got an answer within a day! My problem was solved by turning off the 'Power Ride' option in the HiHat section and the 'Change Crash' option in the Cymbals section, both on the Rhythm tab. I also did reset every pattern in the Arranger after that, just to be sure and, everything is perfect now: no more unwanted cymbals!

For future reference, here are some more options to look at when you are having unwanted cymbal sounds (copied and pasted from the mail I got from Rayzoon):

- 'Cymbal Hits' slider in the jam tab (free jam mode only)

- 'Power' and 'Normal' sliders in the rhythm tab

- 'Single accent hit...' and 'Accent hits...' habits in the 'Jam Habit' screen off of the jam tab (only if MIDI jam input is used)

- MIDI notes in Jamstix track that are assigned to cymbals (only if manual jam with 'Play Input' checked)

- Many fills have cymbals programmed into them