Open Beta Version 3.6.0

Not sure if I read the above correctly or if I have done something wrong, but I'm getting an error, ""Stage Traxx 3 Beta” can only be tested on an macOS device." while trying this on my iPad.

peter Very excited about the looping functionality!
How can I get on the beta list and get an iOS TestFlight invite?

You are the best and more best

Hi Peter, the new Xfade feature is brilliant it really makes it less painful to crash out from one song to another by having 0 fade in time specially if all your songs are immediate start.
Well done

Playlist automatically sorted.
Ok that’s fine that you can sort them in alphabetical order but that was already working that way, the fact you can sort it out by date created is cool but unless you can manually rearrange the order of the playlists these other two features don’t help greatly.
These new features would be useful if you messed up all your playlists then wanted to rearrange them but you can’t mess them up much anyway as they a fixed in alphabetical order A to Z or Z to A and by date is handy if you just wanted to see latest few playlists, so it’s ok but not flexible to suit all users as there might be users that like to have full control of order of their playlists.

What still really baffles me is why is there a filter option there as it has no use in this page except make all your playlists disappear if used
You can not set a filter for playlists so why have this it’s just confusing. I know we talked about this before but I still don’t understand it, all I know if I use it I loose all my playlists and can’t get them back unless I clear the filter, I believe this is more of a nuisance then a feature it is either in the wrong spot or it doesn’t work.
If it has to be explained again it means it ain’t workin.

Cheers Damir

Hi Peter - at the moment I’m not finding it very easy to define the start and end of a loop - guess I need more practice. Also I’m finding that there is an annoying crackle or spitting noise at the restart of the loop which I can’t seem to get rid of. How do you delete a loop - can’t seem to find that anywhere. Will continue to test.

peter I have assigned key words in SONG mode and the filter works fine there, it just doesn’t seem to do anything in playlists I have about 20 playlists and about 20,000 songs but I don’t se a purpose for this filter in playlists it just makes all the playlists disappear and I don’t know why, it should not interfere with my main play list I should always be able to see my list to choose one then if I am in a playlist this filter should be used to filter through my playlists songs that exist . I don’t see any purpose with this filter in main playlist area.
Is anyone using this , if so how do they make it work to be a benefit?
Cheers Damir

Creating a loop, I found I loose sound if I increase the length of the loop.
Let’s say end of loop is 1min I increase to 1.30 I hear the first minute then nothing for 30 sec then audio comes back at beginning I hear it till the one minute mark again, if I stop play and start again it plays through correctly right through 1.30 min.
This I noticed while trying to create first few loops it seems to be a regular occurrence if you do it a certain way.
I will write back once I establish its exact trigger.

Damir

Playlist keywords are like stickers you attach to a whole list, not to a single song.

You access this list by clicking the blue tag icon on the playlist screen, not via the (i) button which takes you to SONG tags nor from song mode.

To add a sticker to a playlist, you need to pay attention to TICKING the tag, not using the + to add a new tag name.

Then, filtering works. This filters PLAYLISTS, not SONGS, which means you either see a complete playlist or you don't. It's not about individual songs.

You could tag multiple sets into one event by tagging them with the name of the event. It only has value if you have loads of playlists with similar names probably.

Hi Peter, i have stumbled on a problem, i tried to setup my stomp six foot control to operate the loop features, my foot pedal switch 5 is used for audio mute, so i thought i would program this switch to scroll through the loops, as audio mute was active i changed this switch to the looping function and so far this function seems to scroll through the loops ok but i was stuck on hearing any audio and now my audio mute is activated but i cant deactivate it as my pedal 5 is no longer that option, my question is , how can i activate and deactivate audio mute on the software itself without a foot pedal , is there a way to do this on the software ?

Creating a loop , as already pointed out is very hard if not impossible to create an accurate loop.
Other Logic suggestions.
Once you create a loop as it pops up it should be highlighted in the first colour of the chart and should play from beginning to end and loop again without any interaction from user.

The loop switch in each loop point should have no affect how the editor player functions, the editor player should always play in a loop so you can select your loop points.

There is a fault where if you select new loop points the player doesn't update till you stop and start the player again this is very important.

Zooming in when long pressing is nowhere near accurate enough for accurate loop creation,
The audio scrubbing replay and visual display is too coarse and inaccurate to be useful, its a great idea and I've used it on other software but its too rough in ST3, i like the concept but it needs tweaking.
My suggestion if possible is similar to Ants, the grab and drag to get a rough loop is fine but instead of a long press and zoom, i would tap on the loop and it opens up a more accurate editor that looks at the in and out points only zoomed in enough so you can precisely shift these points and the loop point would concentrate on the first and last 10 seconds of the loop point so when you open this window you immediately hear the last 10 seconds of the loop then it plays the first 10 seconds of the loop and it keeps playing this in a loop of its own so you can accurately shift the two zoomed in points for precise editing once you are happy with it hit stop exits to the normal edit window choose a new loop hit play touch the same loop opens the precise zoomed it editor again.

At the moment you would spend hours to create usable loops and still not be possibly happy.

Some other feedback
Next + loop creation chooses the next colour and so on.
The colours should be visible in the editor.
The colours should be more different from each other.

At the moment if you enter the audio editor that contains loops all you get is the whole song without any loop selection and a play button, this seems pointless, at least the first loop should be already selected for you so you can see your other options and that then encourages you to touch another loop point and so on, you entered this section to edit loops not to play the whole song. Your loop points should be all highlighted in the colour you chose.
If you have engaged the loop switch on a loop making this as a default the editor loop section should have the same loop icon appear on all loops that have been engaged for this just like in play mode, this than makes it obvious what selections you have chosen for default looping without having to highlight every loop in the editor.

Ok for now i will give it a rest i have managed to crash the software a number of times and have sent the report back to Peter.

I think once this looping feature is ironed out it will work well on stage, could i use it now?
No unfortunately its biggest problem is its loop creation speed and accuracy.