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Brian Collins · Post by **Brian Collins** » Wed Jun 04, 2025 8:13 pm

Thank you for such a quick response (and fix already!). This level of support certainly encourages me to proceed with committing my time, effort and cash to RC. I have spent much of the day working thru the Gene Brown videos and I plan now to read the whole manual. So far, I am extremely impressed!

Brian Collins · Post by **Brian Collins** » Sat Jun 07, 2025 5:30 pm

As a learning exercise, I am (slowly) working thru all the capabilities of RC in a fairly systematic manner and I have now reached the Melody Editor accessed from a Motive generator. With trial and error, it is starting to make sense, despite very little tutorial information anywhere on the web.

But I think there is a bug in chord playback.

I started with an existing chord progression with 9 chords over 8 measures. And it appeared to play all 9 in the right order, but with the wrong timing. I.e. the chords play in the wrong measures. The "extra" chord was added to the first measure - and with unreliable timing. See my video - where I first show the progression and then let the melody editor play it twice.

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Sun Jun 08, 2025 2:52 pm

Hi Brian,

please click on the 'chords' button to display what is being played back:

If you want to create a melody for specific chords, it is necessary to display the chords using the button above.

If you double-click on a "Motive Generator", the master tracks chords are copied to the Melody Editor. If you just switch tabs, the previous chords remain in the Melody Editor.

More and more tutorial videos are posted on our . Yesterday a new one was uploaded about melody harmonization.

Thanks,
Attila

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Sun Jun 08, 2025 2:56 pm

musicdevelopments wrote: Wed Jun 04, 2025 6:47 pm
Charlie Firpo wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 11:59 am Hello! I've been noticing something weird happening with the latest Syne. If i load one instance in the daw = no problem.

But as soon as i add another one, the second instance get a black screen. If i close the window and open it again, i get two screens (the regular window, and a black one besides it)
Hello Charlie,

I am sorry about this, I'll check it ASAP!

Thanks,
Attila

Hello Charlie,

Good news, I managed to fix this, and another bug for window resizing (on Windows only in the VST/VST3 plug-ins). Syne v1.5.3 is uploaded now with these fixes.

Thanks for reporting this!
Attila

Brian Collins · Post by **Brian Collins** » Sun Jun 08, 2025 3:23 pm

Thanks for the reply Attila.

I *had* missed the chords button, but it makes no difference. The chords timing playback is still wrong. See the new video, where I am narrating though my voice has come our rather quiet.

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Sun Jun 08, 2025 3:37 pm

OMG, you are right, Brian, the chords timing is totally wrong. I did try it today and I found it worked well, but now I'll do the exact same steps what you did in the video. Thank you for reporting this strange bug!

Thanks!
Attila

Brian Collins · Post by **Brian Collins** » Sun Jun 08, 2025 3:54 pm

And another detail, audible in the videos but I didn't highlight it. In yesterday's video, on the first play, measure 1 was (incorrectly) split 3:1 beats, but the second play it was split 2:2. In today's video, both plays are split 3:1. But this inconsistency might help point to the underlying bug.

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Sun Jun 08, 2025 4:01 pm

Thank you, Brian!

Charlie Firpo · Post by **Charlie Firpo** » Sun Jun 08, 2025 7:16 pm

musicdevelopments wrote: Sun Jun 08, 2025 2:56 pm
musicdevelopments wrote: Wed Jun 04, 2025 6:47 pm
Charlie Firpo wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 11:59 am Hello! I've been noticing something weird happening with the latest Syne. If i load one instance in the daw = no problem.

But as soon as i add another one, the second instance get a black screen. If i close the window and open it again, i get two screens (the regular window, and a black one besides it)
Hello Charlie,

I am sorry about this, I'll check it ASAP!

Thanks,
Attila
Hello Charlie,

Good news, I managed to fix this, and another bug for window resizing (on Windows only in the VST/VST3 plug-ins). Syne v1.5.3 is uploaded now with these fixes.

Thanks for reporting this!
Attila

Great! Thank you very much!

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Mon Jun 09, 2025 4:18 pm

Brian Collins wrote: Sun Jun 08, 2025 3:54 pm And another detail, audible in the videos but I didn't highlight it. In yesterday's video, on the first play, measure 1 was (incorrectly) split 3:1 beats, but the second play it was split 2:2. In today's video, both plays are split 3:1. But this inconsistency might help point to the underlying bug.

Hi Brian,

Thanks for reporting this bug! I managed to fix it today. The problem was that when the temporary preview composition was created, the chord lengths in the progression were ignored.
I'll send you an update probably tomorrow.

Thank you!
Attila

heliacal · Post by **heliacal** » Mon Jun 09, 2025 4:56 pm

I am still getting a 2+ minute shutdown of DAW's when Rapid Composer is used as a VST.

galenkane · Post by **galenkane** » Mon Jun 09, 2025 11:46 pm

https://i.imgur.com/XEKaAZU.png
I think phrase order is broken

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Tue Jun 10, 2025 7:19 pm

musicdevelopments wrote: Mon Jun 09, 2025 4:18 pm
Brian Collins wrote: Sun Jun 08, 2025 3:54 pm And another detail, audible in the videos but I didn't highlight it. In yesterday's video, on the first play, measure 1 was (incorrectly) split 3:1 beats, but the second play it was split 2:2. In today's video, both plays are split 3:1. But this inconsistency might help point to the underlying bug.
Hi Brian,

Thanks for reporting this bug! I managed to fix it today. The problem was that when the temporary preview composition was created, the chord lengths in the progression were ignored.
I'll send you an update probably tomorrow.

Thank you!
Attila

Hi Brian,

I sent you a DM with the fixed version download links.
EDIT: I meant PM (Private Message on this forum)

Thanks,
Attila

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Tue Jun 10, 2025 7:24 pm

heliacal wrote: Mon Jun 09, 2025 4:56 pm I am still getting a 2+ minute shutdown of DAW's when Rapid Composer is used as a VST.

Please always include whether you are on macOS or Windows, and even more details are welcome, like DAW + versions.

I assume you are on macOS, and your Documents folder is on iCloud. Does your DAW have read/write access to your ~/Documents folder?

If your DAW is not Logic Pro X, please start your DAW in the Terminal, and examine the printouts when you shut it down with RapidComposer. (This does not work with Logic Pro X as it hosts instruments in another process.)

Thanks,
Attila

Charlie Firpo · Post by **Charlie Firpo** » Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:12 pm

Attila, i'm having so much fun with Syne. It sounds very good and it's suprisingly light on cpu. However:
1) I can't get the "mono+legato" mode to work? The envelope keep restarting.
2) Thank you for fixing the bug i reported a couple of days ago. The double window is gone. Unfortunately i still get crashes. I've tried to find the culprit but no luck so far. Here's what i believe i was doing last time it crashed:

I opened the plugin. Chosed "mono legato" mode and "create new preset". Then i added a partial modul and maximized the window. I messed around in the window, painted partials, then i minimized the window & believe i added an adsr. And then it crashed & closed down Renoise. Just a few minutes ago i had a successful session with syne. But when i was going to delete it from the Renoise instrument slot (Right mouse click on instrument+delete), the entire daw shut down again. I wish i could give you more details, but it's been so random.

Win10 + Renoise

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