I'm happy to say that it is much more stable on my new system with a fresh install. I suppose 6 years of SM installations, updates, etc could have contributed to instability issues on the old system.
I got one crash in FL Studio but that was before I remembered to set fixed size buffers to on again and since then it has been totally stable.
Loading Presets into Layers works perfectly now in 3.0.9 and I've been using it just the same way I was before so that issue appears to be fixed. Some insanely complex and beautiful patches can be achieved by loading presets into Layers so that's a feature I look forward to using a great deal going forward. Very powerful.
However I do still get stuck notes with Arp in Chord Mode. Sometimes it happens right away, sometimes it takes a couple of minutes of rigorous play but it happens eventually in both FL Studio and Waveform Pro.
I ran a test in Waveform where I layered up two other synths that have Arp-Chord Mode and played all three simultaneously to rule out my MIDI controller as a possible cause but the other two synths never got stuck notes while SM3 always did eventually so that would tend to rule out my midi controller as a cause.
INIT a patch, turn on Arp, set to Chord Mode, set to 1/16, play from a midi controller, a stuck note will happen eventually.
So I don't know what to tell you. I've tried to intentionally cause a stuck note but can't, it just happens randomly. It seems to happen most when changing notes in a chord while continuing to hold other notes.
Some other things I've noticed....Phaser "Sync to Beat" seems to not function as one would expect. It continues to read out in Hz rather than in 1/4, 1/8, etc and the timing doesn't seem to change much from knob at zero to knob at full so if someone could check that out to see if they can reproduce the issue that would be great.
A minor issue but when loading a new Layer it loads up Muted which seems to be a bit counter-intuitive. When you load a new layer it seems like you'd be wanting to work with it so in my opinion it should load up Soloed or neither muted or soloed.
Anyone notice that the Cursors will sometimes get "stuck". This is something going back to SM 2 and perhaps before but sometimes the up/down arrow cursor will get "stuck" when the pointer cursor or up/down/left/right cursor should show and vice versa. Doesn't affect functionality but it is visually disconcerting.
Anyway Happy New Year to everyone. Looking forward to see what 2025 brings in the music world.
