Merging patterns changes the sound.

[nova axle]

If you didn't make the copy of pattern 1 unique then you changed pattern 1 when you made changes to the 808 pattern.

[sonic meadow]

I made it unique and 808 patterns still play the ones they should it's just one of the melodies. I've narrowed it down to I think the time knob in shaperbox being the effect that's changing, not sure how though

[static nacelle]

can you show a video comparing the 2 please

[sonic meadow]

Uhh sure one second and thank you

@static nacelle

[static nacelle]

can you screenshot your channel rack please

[static nacelle]

is this before or after merger?

[sonic meadow]

Before merge, I did ctrl z

[static nacelle]

which channel is the one that gets messed up when merging?

[sonic meadow]

zenology the one routed to 4

[static nacelle]

can you do me a favor and save the midi as a midi file and send it

before merging

[sonic meadow]

Okay 1 sec

[sonic meadow]

Uhh any idea how I could like only save that pattern as a midi

will soloing it in the mixer work

[static nacelle]

open the piano roll > top left arrow menu > file > save as midi

or whatever it says

[sonic meadow]

No what I mean is in that video clip and actively as we speak there are other instruments in my pattern. I just have that sound solo'ed*

[static nacelle]

if you open the piano roll for the channel, and save the midi, it will only save the midi for that one piano roll

[sonic meadow]

Thank you

@static nacelle

[static nacelle]

so, the problem is that you're trying to use a monophonic patch while you have certain notes in your midi file that are occuring at the same time

the problem with this is, if your synth can only play 1 note, when it encounters 2 notes, what does it do? it has to pick one of the notes, and just goes with that

i don't 100% know how fl handles this interaction, but it seems like when there's some sort of consistency when this happens, when you merge the pattern i guess a different "seed" happens on what the interaction does. so that's why it sounds different when you merge

the solution is to make sure you don't have notes occuring at the same time with a monophonic patch, if you want that legato type interaction, make sure they overlap, but not occur at the exact same time

these notes here are basically not doing anything

but for whatever reason when merging it gets messed up

what they do provide though is probably the legato interaction, so if you want this just highlight all the notes and then stretch them slightly like this (watch the last note it will overlap the bar

[sonic meadow]

Oh wow

thank you

I will try this now

[sonic meadow]

Uh so I selected all the notes and I stretched them by holding ctrl and pulling right but it didn't really misalign the beginning of the notes so the problem persists. I definitely missed something

[static nacelle]

screenshot your piano roll

[static nacelle]

you did not delete the bottom notes, the notes that are causing the problem in the first place

[sonic meadow]

I definitely forgot to do that but I thought you were telling me to do something else aswell

[static nacelle]

the second thing was to stretch your notes so they slightly overlap

[sonic meadow]

I see I see

Thank you again