Is it just me or is Jamstix very buggy?
I've been playing around with Jamstix recently and trying to get a sense of how it all comes together. First of all I have to say that the manual is really badly written and very unclear and vague in places. I feel like it doesn't fully explain the basics of how Jamstix works from the get-go, which left me feeling confused when I got into the more detailed parts of the manual.
But most of all, I've gotten the impression that Jamstix is very buggy for a commercial release. I'm using the 3.5.1 Beta (which it advised me to install in the install instructions) so I don't know if that has anything to do with it. It just doesn't seem to work very well. For instance, when "Auto" mode is set in the bar editor, changes in the brain settings should make themselves heard immediately. But sometimes they don't and I have to click "compose" manually. Or sometimes changing a setting in the brain will result in the exact opposite of what it should do, for instance increasing the "busy" slider of the snare control will result in less snares (sometimes they disappear altogether), and when I try moving the setting back to where it was, the snares don't come back.
Other times, the bar editor will simply not show the notes that are quite clearly playing. For instance I just had a bar on loop, and was experimenting with groove weights on certain beats, and the snares would completely disappear from the bar editor, despite the fact that I could hear them. I could only get them back by switching to the Accent or Fill view, then switching back to Groove.
Should I not have installed the 3.5.1 Beta? Or is the non-beta version equally as problematic? I'm also a bit disappointed at MIDI dragging to the host being disabled. Apparently they're not going to be fixing that for a while.
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