yup all those problems here as well... 
what you need to do for the 127+ parameters being written is open the soft synth, click on the "W" button in the top right (it will turn red), then right-click on the "W" button and choose "Automation write enable parameter" - oddly enough the only option, then selectively click all the ones you want to be able to write.  Start at the top and hold shift + down-arrow (page down doesn't work, oddly enough) and scroll ALL THE WAY to the bottom of the list.  Hit the space bar, which will uncheck ALL the parameters. Then (tired yet?????) go through the list and enable all the parameters you will be recording.  WHEW!!!

Instead of doing all that couldn't you just arm all using the "W" and only move the parameters you want recording in either touch or latch mode? That'd save a lot of clicking.

garrigus


Automation snapshots won't update existing automation. If you need to change a node at a certain location, you can either click/drag it or right-click it, choose Properties and type in a precise value.

Scott

Even in a new song with no automation previously recorded, snapshots don't do anything.  Not sure why.  Do I have the steps right?

Garion2K

Even in a new song with no automation previously recorded, snapshots don't do anything.  Not sure why.  Do I have the steps right? 

All you should have to do is right-click a parameter and choose Automation Snapshot.


Do you have the View > Display > Display Ghosted Data option activated in the Track view menu? If not, you won't see the envelopes or nodes being added.


Scott

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Ok, got the automation snapshot working!  I was mistaken when I said "new song".  I was using a song template I had created for B4II.  It must have contained some previous automation.

With a new song using the Normal template, I can create automation snapshots just fine.  And they work perfectly with Rapture.  When I select a patch in Rapture, then create the automation snapshot, all the parameter values in Rapture are recorded in the snapshot correctly.  

That's not the case with B4II.  After selecting a patch in B4II and creating a snapshot, the parameter values are recorded at the middle position.  So if Upper Vibrato is set to OFF in a patch, it gets recorded by Sonar in the middle which causes it to turn ON.  But if I adjust each parameter in the B4 II UI before I create the snapshot, the values get recorded properly.  Looks like a quirk of B4 II, and since it's been discontinued I'll learn to work around it.

Thanks for everyone's help!

Yep, that definitely sounds like a B4 II problem. Glad you got the snapshots working!

Scott

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