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Okay so on the second try (1st try failed as the lower left icon just spun forever.) I was able to load a demo song. Auto generate began and completed 109 seconds.

Next I tested the demo button. It worked. I must confess that is not where I would demo tracks.

The tempo light was blinking so I reset the DAW tempo. Drag was flawless. Note: light still blinking

Selected a guitar funk solo and generated a Multi Riff. Very long generation time 129 seconds. But flawless generation!

Selected a funky acoustic piano track. Generation time 25 sec however it did not generate the whole song it stopped short of the end of the riff. Might be pilot error. Tried again and again it did not generate the whole song.

Hhmmmm! Let me check the settings carefully. Generated a second track same results

Tried to generate a vocal track from RT it generated but also stopped at bar 31 exactly where the piano tracks ended.

So far individual tracks are not generating completely.

Update I cleared the tracks and regenerated from the start and found that now the style tracks had somehow generated past the length of the demo the first time, and the individual tracks were on target. On second generation they are all the same length. Not sure exactly what happened the first time. Now I am regenerating the MRiffs. Will see what happened.

MultiRiffs generated flawlessly this time. Found one I really like.


Last edited by Rob Helms; 12/01/19 02:29 PM.

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Second run: Note the above and current test run is in studio one 4.54

I selected a simple demo song from the list homesick pop. Clicked open, nothing just a spinning wheel (lower left) tried again same result. Closed plugin reopened chose another demo same folder. Same results. Spinning spinning spinning ....... yawn. Removed the track and instrument and added a new instrument track. Spinning spinning spinning. Scratching head??

Okay I’ll try a demo from a different folder. Trying a Brent mason country blues demo. 3 minutes in and no joy. The file has not loaded. Will wait a bit more to see if it is just slow. Spinning again had to close the plugin and reopen to stop it.

Trying to just enter chords in the chord sheet. Won’t select a style just spins and spins. Tried twice to select a style. Trying a third time, ya know what they say about that. No joy third time is a fail. Will close DAW, and reopen and try again in a bit.

Last edited by Rob Helms; 12/01/19 03:12 PM.

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So after two evenings of testing the plugin I am not able to get it to either open a demo song, or select a style with a full chord window.

I let it spin twice for over 8 minutes with no success. What are other users finding in this regard?


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Further info:

I am now trying in reaper. So far so good style tracks generated and so did multiriffs. Trying individual tracks now

So far everything works in reaper that I’ve tried. Now if these things can get fixed in studio one I’m golden


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