Paradiddle V1 Demo Week

Hi everyone! It's been a while since we last posted an announcement on here. In case you're not aware, we've been posting regular sneak peeks and announcements in our Discord.

We've now unlocked the V1 test branch for Steam users who'd like to test out an early V1 beta and give us feedback! Over the past year and a half we’ve pretty much updated or reworked every single part of Paradiddle, which is why this test week is important for us to make sure we catch any bugs we weren’t already aware of and get feedback on some of the major changes. Keep in mind: nothing is final, we're still actively adding/changing more stuff and there will be bugs. If you're on our Discord, you can use the v1-demo-feedback and v1-demo-bugs channels to let us know what you think. Alternatively feel free to post on the Steam Discussion Forums with any v1 demo feedback you have or bugs you may have found.

To enroll in the V1 demo, right click Paradiddle on Steam, go to Properties -> Betas and select v1-demoweek.

Specific areas we’d like to hear about are:

• Different VR Headsets: We’d like to hear from all different PC VR headset users, including Index, WMR, Reverb, Rift S, Quest via Link, Vive. Any issues with remapping your inputs? Any controls that don’t feel good on your headset?
  
• Peripherals and pedals: If you were already using Paradiddle with a peripheral, give it a try on V1 and let us know if you run into any issues.
  
• Performance: Any performance issues in any of the new maps?
  
• Leaderboards: Your score should be written to the global leaderboards as long as you don’t pause during a song and don’t change any of the default song speed type settings. Let us know if you’re not seeing your scores posted and we’ll look into it.
  
• Any other general thoughts you have about how the app feels, the new UI, lessons, new drums, environments etc. Let us know what you think!
  

Known issues:

• When loading a recording, pressing Play/Pause will cause a crash.
  
• Certain menus haven’t been 100% updated to the new UI yet. We’re still tweaking the look of certain menus and UI elements.
  

Important to know:

The actual update notes when V1 comes out will be massive, but for now here are some changes to be aware of:

• You'll have to be logged into Steam and online to play the demo (don't worry, this won't be the case for the actual release). The beta branch will be closed at midnight PT on October 5th so we can get back to development based on your valuable feedback!
  
• Incredibly brief summary of the changes/additions: overhauled UI, new environments, new instruments, more songs, lessons, more robust stick mechanics, major performance improvements, more settings and quality of life features.
  
• In V1, the directory used for custom songs, saved kits, recordings and audio files has changed to Documents/Paradiddle/. If you’re not seeing your custom songs show up, you can move them under Documents/Paradiddle/Songs/ and they should show up again. In the future we’ll try and still check the old directory so that it’s not as jarring for people transitioning to V1.
  
• We’re going to change how the highway scoring works so don’t take that as final. Leaderboards will be reset when V1 launches as well.
  
• There’s still some new content coming up in V1 that isn’t included in this demo yet, so there’s more to look forward to end of October!
  

Excited to see all of the feedback! 🤘🤘

- Emre
emre@paradiddleapp.com
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