Why Can’t I Play Chords in Koala Sampler? Troubleshooting Polyphony in Keyboard Mode

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Sometimes, I run into a frustrating issue with Koala Sampler. That is, when I try to play chords in Keyboard mode, only one note plays at a time, cutting off the previous note. Basically the sample is behaving monophonic, even though I’m in Keyboard mode and not using any choke groups.

After all the troubleshooting, I found out it was a bug. I had to close the sidebar, where I can choose samples, where I highlighted in the red box in the screenshot below.

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When I closed out that sidebar, suddenly the app recognized that I was in keyboard mode, and I was able to play it in polyphonic mode.

By the way, this is on Apple Silicon Mac. (using iPad version of the Koala)

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