First of all…Zynthian seems pretty amazing. I’ve been dabbling with it off and on for a few months, but this week I finally sat down to try to make a cover song. I loaded up 3 instruments, and plotted out 3 patterns each in ZynSeq. Launching from the pads worked fantastically. I was thinking of exploring how to trigger them over MIDI, but before that I figured I’d try the Arranger and just lay them out how I want.
When I switched to that view, the cursor (red outline selection box) was moving and pulling the timeline constantly right. Around the 400 time mark I finally got it to stop, but it was seriously messing up where my patterns were in time and they were scattered all over this new super long timeline. I don’t think I was playing when I got here, but I could have been.
I made an effort to try to clean things up, but it was a bit too much. I tried clearing the sequence, but it didn’t seem to have any effect.
I rebooted the device, and somehow things fell (mostly) back into place. But the numbered black cells (which I assume represent patterns) were skipping numbers. And I think the patterns just didn’t get assigned to the right tracks properly - the pads that formerly launched patterns in the pads view just launched empty clips.
At least I’m in a better place, and I thought I could just remove the clip/pattern/black cells and re-add other ones. By default, when I click to add a pattern, it uses “1”. So I went to try to change this pattern - and once in that mode, I’d press the arrow buttons and it would increment by 10. So I can’t choose 2, 3, 4, 5 etc such as what I think I have, but I’m only allowed to choose 1, 11, 21, etc.
I’m thoroughly confused. The arranger feels broken to me, but I completely empathize that I’m working on a tiny screen and its a challenge to adopt a user experience that makes sense coming from a traditional timeline with mouse and keyboard.
So I’m wondering if I’m missing something and I should stick it out - potentially redoing some work and trying again.
Anyway that’s my question - if I should stay away! Again, no judgement, this seems to be a rad project otherwise and I can appreciate less polished aspects that don’t really work. I’ve searched for the arranger on this board and not seeing much, so naturally I’m wondering if it’s being used. The wiki instructions are pretty short, so don’t really get into much of what I was having trouble with.
thanks!