Play delay and bad catch-up

[CinningBao]

I just got Tracktion as I fancied a change from the others, but the first two bar midi pattern i put down for a rack filtered Attack doesn't seem to loop correctly

It plays the first beat of the bar then speeds up fractionally to play the second beat of the 4/4 bar, and the rest of it, early. And then when it loops it just ignores any notes on the first beat while keeping a straight tempo.

The rack filter tutorial demo on the TracktionFaction website seems to work ok, so what have i done wrong?
Cheers

[Lunch Money]

Bizzarrio--

I've rarely used MIDI, so I might be off base here, however part of the difficulties I've encountered are with the tempo changes. When I import a new clip, any embedded tempos screw things up. Then, I have some clips that are longer than their contents. So, 2 things:

1. make sure there are no weird tempo changes along the timeline

2. Make sure your MIDI clips are sized correctly.

It also wouldn't hurt to make sure you don't have any groove templates in thar.

Greg

[CinningBao]

how odd.

The clip's exactly 1 bar long, the notes are bang on the beats, and even if I move the bar to the left (making the 2nd beat of the bar the 1st beat of the loop) the beginning of the loop remains silent!

I thought it was a problem restricted to the Attack, but psychicmodulation's Optik suffers the same issues. maybe I should stick to audio?

[Iain]

how odd.

The clip's exactly 1 bar long, the notes are bang on the beats, and even if I move the bar to the left (making the 2nd beat of the bar the 1st beat of the loop) the beginning of the loop remains silent!

I thought it was a problem restricted to the Attack, but psychicmodulation's Optik suffers the same issues. maybe I should stick to audio?

I've been using tracktion for 2 months now and I always start
out with 5 midi tracks for the drums and 1 for the bass.
I experienced the same problem the first time I tried but
it never showed up again.
Since then I've been careful with the mouse over midi clips
since if you time stretch things with the right mouse button
it can have a similar effect.
Don't give up : I'm currently working on my 20th composition
and am extremly happy with the way things work.
Just for the info I'm running a 1.8mHz Windows XP PC with
256Mb of Ram.
Good luck

[rpc9943]

5 midi tracks for drums?!?!?!!
plz explain why

RonC

[valley]

that doesn't seem so unreasonable.

If you seperate the drum kit into individual tracks, one for the kick, one for the snare etc, you'd get five without even really trying.

It isn't necessary to work this way, but some people choose to, and it can make it easier to do stuff like dance where it is nice to see which perc is active at any given song point.

[Lunch Money]

5 tracks for drums makes perfect sense to me. I ALWAYS separate kick and snare if it's a MIDI track (as opposed to an audio loop). Then sometimes cymbals and toms get separated. That's 4 already. Special percussion makes a fifth.

Simple to go beyond 5, really.

Still no idea how to fix the prob, though.

Greg

[rpc9943]

why separate them if you have a routing drum sampler or something along those lines?



RonC

[Lunch Money]

Because I don't. I use sfz. With different soundfonts-- one for the kick, one for the snare, one or two for the other parts of the kit.

[valley]

why separate them if you have a routing drum sampler or something along those lines?



RonC

but some people choose to, and it can make it easier to do stuff like dance where it is nice to see which perc is active at any given song point.

[rpc9943]

nice, real nice attitude.

RonC