Pattern "Restart" should be default instead of "free"

The topic already says it all. I used the song-mode for the 1st time and it took ages to figure out what’s going on. Then I put all the patterns to “restart”, which also took ages, and the song mode worked as expected. Does anyone even use “free-mode”?

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i need to use Free mode to run long vocal patterns over 32+bar stretches but have found that it doesn’t consistently reset the next pattern on that track to beat one. never figured out why but find Deluge’s arranger mode fits my use cases better all around anyway

Maybe there is a case when you not want a pattern start from the beginning. I couldn’t think of one, but It’s always good to have the opportunity. What I don’t understand is: Why is it default?

I agree. I always have to do that with every pattern as well. Thought it was my rather rigid way of doing things, though. Would prefer a different default.

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Ditto. Pyramid had the same default and never understood it (or found a use-case) there either, but then it had an option to change the default, which made it mostly a non-issue. Having mostly forgot about it, caused some gray hairs on Hapax to debug songs going mad before I remembered it again. I ended up going through all the patterns of all the tracks to change and save it to the template project. Can’t say I enjoyed the experience.

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Same here. Once I figured this out, everything worked as expected. Why isn’t it the default?

agree that it should be the default… crazy to me that it isn’t.

I agree an option in the settings to set a default value (like Pyramid apparently) would be perfect.

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