Rayzoon Technologies LLC

[paul_46038]

I seem to have done something wrong...

Reaper 3.06
Jamstix 2.5.2 beta 7 then 8

I have a song that was working fine for days. Then I changed 2 equivalent parts from 2 bars/1 rep to 4 bars/1 rep and strange things started happening. Here’s a chronology, as best I remember:

- The new bars won’t compose themselves, either as the song is playing or isolated in the bar editor. I eventually get this to work, I think by re-pasting the style and drummer into the part (even though they were there).

- I change the parts back to 2 bars/1 rep (transition fill = yes, as it has all along).

- Now the second of the two bars has notes in it but doesn’t play during the song – just four beats of silence – and doesn’t appear to even “run” in the bar editor, although the light bulb starts to blink in the brain. The compose button has no effect.

- I start clicking on other bars and discover that if I recompose a transition fill measure, it also adopts the tacet behavior (groove, accent and fill; drums and Jamcussion). Repetition fill bars don’t seem to be affected. Turning the transition fill off and on doesn’t help.

- I download and install beta 8. Nothing improves and now, some transition fills that I haven’t touched are deleting themselves and muting the corresponding grooves/accents. “Allow time sig changes” turns itself off and my 2/4 bars turn themselves into 4/4 and recompose with lots and lots of notes. The first bars in the parts that started all this will now play only once in the bar editor and then stop.

- rzdlog.txt has an impressive number of lines with the words “exception” and “violation” in them and I just sent that file to Ralph.

- I have exited and re-opened Reaper numerous times throughout the process. I got brave and opened a different song and recomposed a transition fill and everything continues to work fine. The log now looks normal to me.

Any thoughts? It wouldn't be a huge deal to rebuild this since I can still look at the old one but if some bonehead move on my part is responsible, I'd like to know what it is. Sorry for the epic post.

[Ralph [RZ]]

Can you send me the host project with the problem?
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Ralph Zeuner
Rayzoon Technologies LLC
http://www.rayzoon.com

[paul_46038]

Just sent the Reaper project file along with a walkthrough "script" that demonstrates some of these issues before/after. Thanks.

[paul_46038]

On the parts that were giving me fits, I changed the style/drummer away from where I had it and then put it back. Aside from having to reset a few parameters, that seems to have completely de-quirkified my song.

So as far as I'm concerned, Ralph, you needn't spend any more time on this. If it recurs, I'll let you know. Thanks much.