My Mega Man might be Mega F&*ked!

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I have a PO-128 and, other than a few similar glitches here and there, it's really not given me any problems. Then all of a sudden, a bunch of stuff started happening. Can you guys help me (a) make sure I'm not missing something and these indeed bugs, (b) whether you've ever seen it before, and (c) how often you find yourself having to flash/reset your Pocket Operators to keep them from going wonky like this.

Missing sounds - Video 1

In this video, I demonstrate how the sounds for buttons 1-8 just don't make any sounds. Even before that happened, my sound 12 became nothing more than a faint tick, which I can't control with the A or B knobs.

Glide choking notes - Video 2

Glide has always worked like a charm before but now, whenever I press any note while holding glide, instead of a "slide up" as you'd expect, it simply chokes out that note instead. That means I also can't use it to "slide down" either.

Please haaalp!!!

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u/HAIR__ON_FIRE — 5 days ago

Here's every Pocket Operator's operation manual as hi-res PDFs

These are the much longer, details versions for each model.

I even grabbed the copies in other languages, though be aware they don't have guides for some models and some language combinations. If they're out there, I've got 'em. Use the link above for that.

P.S. If you don't feel like downloading a questionable ZIP file from a shady character such as myself, here's a link to the (English versions) of each manual, individually.

Enjoy!

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u/HAIR__ON_FIRE — 5 days ago

Mastering Effects #4 and #14 on the PO-12 Rhythm

These effect buttons piss me off and seem totally useless, but I've heard other people say they like them. They just make loud, indistinct noise for me.... am I using it wrong?

Does anyone know how to really master these effects and put them to good use?

Solution found

https://www.reddit.com/r/pocketoperators/comments/1vjncfk/comment/p2q2tfo/

>In a weird twist of the Teenage Engineering wizard ninjas in the sky, it turns out these two are completely tied to each other.

u/HAIR__ON_FIRE — 11 days ago

Are all PO-128's problematic?

My PO-128 often records live play notes on the wrong step, which makes live play very frustrating. I believe this is a known bug for the PO-128 which the PO-28, for example, doesn't have. My question is whether every model has this problem or is it only some of them?

Side question — the PO-128 is supposed to have 3-channel polyphony but I can only seem to record two at a time. At least for the melody buttons, if there is a drum and a synth on a step already, I can't add a third. Doing so steals one of the channels that were being used. Yet the PO-28 seems to handle that just fine. How does it handle that better if it's supposed to have one less channel of polyphony?

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u/HAIR__ON_FIRE — 13 days ago

Spark Desktop 3 is riddled with bugs; worst thing I've seen in a long time

I've been using Spark for about 2 months now and just in the past month, these are spome of the issues I've experienced (mind you, these are just the ones I took time to take note of):

  1. When read receipts are on, the rows in Sent Mail all overlap each other
  2. Sent an email only for it to bring it back on-screen after it said it was successfully sent and told me the email doesn't exist; and it was right, it wasn't in Sent, Archive, Trash or Drafts. It's simply gone now. This happened twice.
  3. Drafts emails from up to 9 months ago are appearing in my Drafts folder timestamped as though they were started in the last several days
  4. An email sitting in my inbox is there one second, and when I look back about a minute later, it's gone. And again, I mean gone. It wasn't in Inbox, Sent, Archive, Trash or Drafts, and search couldn't find it either. And that was a VERY important email!
  5. Some emails have totally different toolbars at the top than others; some have it aligned left and some have it aligned right. Sometimes the "Pin" and "Set Aside" buttons are there, sometimes they're not. These discrepancies occur even with 2 emails from the same person, to the same person, on the same day, and stored in the same folder.
  6. I deleted a bunch of empty drafts in my Drafts folder, only to see them repopulate back in just a couple hours; it also required me to click "Delete" twice each time for each email.
  7. Clicked "Undo" on a just-sent email but when it popped back up, the image was broken and the top paragraph of text was in some strange box which prevented me from editing it.
  8. While editing one draft, I opened another draft. Instead of opening in a new window next to the first, it closed the first and took its place, reversing all text I'd been adding to it.
  9. Tried to "Send Message Data" to get the support team the logs they want but it gave me an error the first couple times before I got it to work
  10. Sometimes when I bring up the command bar and select "Move," it doesn't auto-fill anything I start typing as if it doesn't see my actual folder list
  11. Getting a "No Internet Connection" error when I clearly do have an internet connection
  12. (more of a UX issue) Can't bring up a new Compose window when there's one already on the screen unless you first give focus to the main email screen (can't just CMD+N from another email window)
  13. (more of a UX issue) Dragging an email to a sidebar folder immediately springs open any folders with subfolders it happens to even graze; as you're dragging down, the folders keep expaqnding and forces you to keep dragging down and down until you can findally drop it where you want it; then you get to go through each root folder and collapse them... until the next time you need to drag an email somewhere.

I've caught all of these bugs on video should anyone doubt my claims.

Guys, this is all over the course of a few weeks...

Even Reddit is acting stupid today and won't let me include an image with this post so you'll have to use a Google Drive link. Here's what the top of my Sent inbox looks like right now: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gz3hcrb8MNzepy4T4gkVoy0mbZ2DkxTE/view?usp=drive_link

I love the software and where they're going with it (Workflows are AWESOME!) but it's barely usable in its current state. If you can't afford to lose emails or lose your hair (from pulilng it out over frustration), steer clear of this thing.

u/HAIR__ON_FIRE — 17 days ago

Weird issue on the PO-14 Sub.

So I have this bad ass pattern that I really like and want to start copying to other pattern slots and making minor tweaks to. Problem is, my Sub is making sounds on squares that aren't even lit up/where it shouldn't.

I tried switching sounds to see if something else was layered over it on another channel but switching sounds on the Sub just changes the entire bass sound. Other than live play, I'm not even sure if there is a way to layer on other sounds. Even if live play works, how do you then edit it later if you can't even break out of the bass pattern?

Weirdest yet. The sound that plays on the off-squares is still the same sound that plays on the on-squares. It's not like the sound changes, it's just playing it at spots it shouldn't be.

Any ideas here??

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u/HAIR__ON_FIRE — 1 month ago

Spotify can't find any songs today

Anyone else's Spotify not not able to find any songs today?

Standard search at the top just spins forever, and the "Let's find something for you playlist" search field below every playlist is even more definitive, saying "No results."

I've tried it with tons of songs and it can't find a single one of them. Even after a restart, and a logout / log back in. Ugh....

https://preview.redd.it/cjn7m8ciib2h1.png?width=579&format=png&auto=webp&s=0260b1bfe18b0f582683a035bf556643e67a14e4

https://preview.redd.it/cg4l7eojib2h1.png?width=579&format=png&auto=webp&s=6d36a99437a1f8fdfbeeec44de81231f8eed3e8a

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u/HAIR__ON_FIRE — 3 months ago

Question about switching focus modes

Let’s say that I am in a particular focus mode, focus A. Now I’m going to switch to focus B. When I exit from focus B, will it take me back to focus A because it was the prior focus or will it default to no focuses set?

What’s the expected behavior?

Does any of that behavior change if I’m switching focuses manually versus programmatically, through Shortcuts or another means?

Is it different from Mac and iPhone?

I know it’s a lot of questions, guys, so I really appreciate your time and attention!

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u/HAIR__ON_FIRE — 3 months ago

Is there an alternate way to start dictation?

Once you’re in dictation mode, you can say stop dictation and Siri will stop at any time. But what about the Converse? Is there a way that you can tell her to start dictation, or is there an accessibility shortcut or gesture that I could use to do that?

I often find myself in a text Feeld, but unable to reach with one hand, small microphone in the right corner and end up having to basically juggle my phone with one I love not have to do that.

I know Apple shortcuts supports this kind of thing, but Shortcuts can’t enter text into text fields.

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u/HAIR__ON_FIRE — 3 months ago

Does this sound exist?

I know that waves are typically defined as moving up and down or relating in some direction, and it’s that which facilitates the sound we hear.

What I’m curious about is whether one continuous sound, or any sound, can exist, really, without the wavy aspect. Clearly, it won’t travel anywhere because it needs the wavy part in order to do that. But is a sound even created, without waving?

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u/HAIR__ON_FIRE — 3 months ago

How do IF statements and Booleans work?

I see how to test if a boolean is true but how do you test if it's false. Surely, it can't be as sloppy as IF(true) { //nothing } otherwise { what I actually want }

Even if that were true, what about the case where the boolean isn't set, or set correctly? How do you test for falsity?

The last line in this shot shows me testing for truth:

https://preview.redd.it/8cfxks1adt1h1.png?width=320&format=png&auto=webp&s=45471fdd1da6cd8df58a8d9b94a0536f7927f002

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u/HAIR__ON_FIRE — 3 months ago

Everyone's focused on the Rolling Giant but what about the mall itself? It's never explained how or why it's there, how it came to be or why it was abandoned. And what does it mean that when he falls from the mall's ceiling, he ends up dying on the forest floor?

The fact the Rolling Giant is there watching him from the trees makes me think the mall never existed in the first place and everything he was experiencing was a hallucination or fever dream brought on by the Rolling Giant itself. Perhaps there in the forest is where the mall used to exist and the long staircase into the Earth is a metaphor for going back in time.

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u/HAIR__ON_FIRE — 4 months ago