Tracktion Software

rlindsey0 · Post by **rlindsey0** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 3:31 pm

I see what you mean. I saw this when I recently did 5 tracks with EZD and Tracktion for an album. I did the same thing you did--tugged the right edge to fill out the measure. Note, however, that no information is missing from the apparently shorter clip; it just stops after the last MIDI note.

This was only a concern for me when looping the same clip; once I lengthened the clip, looping was simple, as was copy/pasting, and I never ended up with short bars or extra beats. When putting different clips next to each other, all you really have to worry about is making sure that the second one has its left edge at the start of a bar. That way, even if there is a gap between the two (because the first clip is short), everything is still in time.

But I agree; ideally you shouldn't have to worry about that; when you drop in a 2-bar clip, it should fill up 2 bars without having to be tweaked. Funny, it never occurred to me that it might be a Tracktion weirdness rather than an EZD one. I guess it should have!

jrlanglois · Post by **jrlanglois** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:02 pm

bobmartinmusic wrote:Here’s a clip with 16 Hi Hat hits falling short of the bar. It’s not EDZ, it works fine in Reaper, where the MIDI also shows up as diamonds, still can’t see/find the MIDI in T5..

In that case, I've reason to believe you aren't using the latest T5 - I'm sure I fixed the problem of not seeing tiny notes already. (and yes, tested with EZD)

mcnelson · Post by **mcnelson** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:11 pm

jrlanglois wrote:
bobmartinmusic wrote:Here’s a clip with 16 Hi Hat hits falling short of the bar. It’s not EDZ, it works fine in Reaper, where the MIDI also shows up as diamonds, still can’t see/find the MIDI in T5..
In that case, I've reason to believe you aren't using the latest T5 - I'm sure I fixed the problem of not seeing tiny notes already. (and yes, tested with EZD)

Latest T5? The website lists 5.1.0 as the latest, and the changelog identifies it as the initial release....or are there beta's in the wild?

jrlanglois · Post by **jrlanglois** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:13 pm

mcnelson wrote:Latest T5? The website lists 5.1.0 as the latest, and the changelog identifies it as the initial release....or are there beta's in the wild?

Gahh, my mistake - the update hasn't been pushed out yet...

mcnelson · Post by **mcnelson** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:18 pm

....get pushing then

jrlanglois · Post by **jrlanglois** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:18 pm

mcnelson wrote:....get pushing then

Integratron · Post by **Integratron** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 1:03 am

EZD will not load the kit on my sytem... Win XP SP3

TonySwe · Post by **TonySwe** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 4:40 pm

rlindsey0 wrote:
TonySwe wrote:
fedexnman wrote:Bugs 2 things .
EZdrummer , dragging midi clip from EZ to the edit does not not fill the Bar , you have to drag the clip arrow to the right to fill the Bar still ...
This happens to me too.

Also, when I copied a one bar midi clip I did myself a number of times, some of the clips ended up with an added beat, making it longer and not aligning with the bars.
This, however, hasn't happened in the last few days.
Not sure that is a T5 bug. I think that has to do with how EzD supplies its loops. They don't all fill out the measures IME.

I'd probably lean towards it being a T5 bug since this doesn't happen in Reaper (my main DAW) and Cubase.

TonySwe · Post by **TonySwe** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 4:45 pm

bobmartinmusic wrote:Here’s a clip with 16 Hi Hat hits falling short of the bar. It’s not EDZ, it works fine in Reaper, where the MIDI also shows up as diamonds, still can’t see/find the MIDI in T5..

I assume you have scrolled the piano roll?

Try to expand the track, I sometimes have to do that to see the notes too...

How the notes are presented is a DAW thing, maybe T5 doesn't have the option of showing midi notes as diamonds?
At first I thought I'd miss the diamonds when programming the drums, but it works really well with the rectangular shapes in T5 since you can adjust the size of them.

bobmartinmusic · Post by **bobmartinmusic** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 6:05 pm

I think that Reaper, which has had a lot of stick for the lack of attention to MIDI, has got it pretty much got it right now. There’s been a hint that the "short clip" is going to be sorted in the next version.

Also, a problem has been that the EZD midi info has been invisible, because the hits are only 1 tick long.

How Reaper does it.

Integratron · Post by **Integratron** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 12:38 am

FR - a pause function in the transport. I could swear that T4 would pause the transport if you held the control (or shift) while you clicked on the stop button on the transport.

I want to have the play head cursor to return to the last position stopped and a pause function... is there any way to d this with T5?

dupont · Post by **dupont** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 11:39 am

Can you put the clock back as in earlier T versions ?
It will be usefull as we know get full sreen and mac clock is therefore hidden.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:29 pm

Okay, that's disconcerting. Two complete 'user interface disappears but the process is left hanging and unkillable unless the system is restarted' crashes in less than twenty minutes.

First one happened when I tried to enable a Launchpad as a MIDi device for input while a project was open.

Second one happened when I tried to manually set the length of a MIDI note (to 312 ticks).

jules · Post by **jules** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:49 pm

whyterabbyt wrote:Okay, that's disconcerting. Two complete 'user interface disappears but the process is left hanging and unkillable unless the system is restarted' crashes in less than twenty minutes.

First one happened when I tried to enable a Launchpad as a MIDi device for input while a project was open.

Second one happened when I tried to manually set the length of a MIDI note (to 312 ticks).

If you get a crash, don't bother explaining on KVR - send us a log file! That's the only way we can possibly do anything about it!

If the process is unkillable, that always means that a driver has gone awol - there's nothing an app can do to stop you killing the process, only a broken driver can do that.. which unfortunately is rarely something we can fix.

Integratron · Post by **Integratron** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:57 pm

Having difficulty rendering an edit to MP3. T5 acts like its rendering fine... says render complete... all looks good. When I go to get the file it's not there. I checked and 2x checked the location in settings. I've checked the location of the LAME file and the folder pointer in the settings tab.

Here is the name of the file from the MP3 render: .Back In My Arms Again Edit 1 Export 2_temp6031f8c2_tempdcf6a5bc.trkaudio

Along a similar line, when I render a .wav file, it's volume is elevated and distorted, even though the master out fader is at -14dB and there are no overs.
EDIT UPDATE: It seems that if I have the normalize radio button selected, everything is fine. Do others find the the Normalize must be set on to render an edit to .wav with a proper volume level?

I'm using a PC core2duo with Windows XP Home and SP3.

I'm stumped... any ideas?

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