I’m finding that with some pedalboards (it seems pretty random, so it may not actually be related to a specific pedal or combination) when they load, they are intermittently loading with no sound going through, as though something is muted internally. The input is still registering signal (the lights on the inputs are coming on) but there’s no through signal. If I reload the pedalboard, it works. Occasionally when I reload it, there’s a burst of white noise (though not the ear-splitting noise I was getting from the unstable Rakarrak AlienWah!)
How to reproduce
Load a pedalboard
switch to another pedal board, sometimes there’s no sound
reload the board, or switch to a different one then back again, sound reappears, sometimes with white noise
Expected/suggested solution
I’ve got gigs this weekend, and I’d prefer it not to happen - if there’s no fix, I’ll roll back to an earlier version…
Additional information
Open the controller menu (hold left knob down), navigate to Info > Versions and write down here the versions.
release: latest public
controller: Softstep 2
Also provide some information about your system if possible.
Operating system: Windows
System version: Windows 10, Chrome browser, but it happens when not connected to the computer too…
This might happen if there were problems loading the pedalboard.
Sound is disabled while the pedalboard loads, so that plugins don’t start processing until everything is loaded.
(Otherwise the last plugins on each pedalboard would always take longer to load, and the already-loaded ones start processing audio before the entire thing is in memory).
There’s one way to verify is this is the case - is the CPU load low when the sound is muted for you? and reloading the same pedalboard when this happens makes the CPU load higher?
nope - at least, not on the one that was doing it this time… Will try a bunch of different combinations (of pedalboard that I’m switching from and to, to see if the pedalboard that’s being turned ‘off’ affects it too… Can’t seem to make it happen in any regular fashion at the moment, which is annoying.
I haven’t tried that yet, but I will do tomorrow, and see what happens - that could be a wise choice, given that I really like the TAP backwards delay that was wrecked by the new global tempo thing too Then I can use it for my gig on Saturday and wait for the update
Found it!! The problem is with the FOMP Reverb. So far, that’s the only constant with the boards that load with no sound, and when I turn that pedal off, they work fine. So I’m going through and replacing it on all my boards that use it
Perhaps worth checking and seeing if it needs moving back into unstable while it gets fixed…