Bass line: midi drag into Bitwig goes a bit wonky

[keef]

I’ve got my chord progressions in the Sketch pad area, and midi-dragged them into Bitwig. All good so far.

I now want a bassline, the Expressions - Bass - Common Bass - Basic - Basic 2 is one I like, nice and simple for the simple things I do. I’ve set the Motion on the first 8-bar progression to Bass - Common Bass - Basic - Basic 2, and it plays the bass line fine in Scaler. I then select the 8 chords and midi-drag them to a Bitwig clip… and they go crazy… in Bitwig it is 11 bars long with a whole load of additional notes added/repeated. This worked perfectly in old Scaler.

Let me try and add screenshotts… hopefully they will make it clearer…

In Scaler:

After midi-dragging the first progression into Bitwig:

I’ll spend a bit more time on this but am currently fearing that I’ll have to drop back to old scaler; I use midi-drag all the time and if it isn’t working this is a no-go for me.

[zzrwood]

I’m not that familiar with dragging progressions from the sketch area, but when I drag a bass track from the arrange page it works perfectly.

Maybe try that?

[keef]

Thank-you zzrwood.
At this point I am thinking I might stay on old scaler; there was a point yesterday where I realised that no sound had come from my speakers for 2 days as I was spending all my time struggling with new scaler so much. I reverted to old scaler and music was playing within minutes.
I am grateful for the work on new scaler, and don’t begrudge the upgrade at all as I use scaler just about every single day, I just perhaps think that perhaps I am just an old scaler type-of-user :o)