RapidComposer v5 beta feedback and discussion

[Brian Collins]

However, I also think that users should have an option to "Avoid bb and ## note names", if that is what they prefer.

Good suggestion that may make more sense to someone less pedantic than I can be!

[musicdevelopments]

Thanks everyone for the useful suggestions!
It seems I need to study more music theory...

[BluGenes]

Thanks everyone for the useful suggestions!
It seems I need to study more music theory...

Hehe, yea, that is always fun. On the subject, for guitar, it would be nice if the guitar phrase would display the correct interval of the notes. For example, one the best way to do a guitar solo is using triad shapes of the chords. Any note near these notes is a playable note in a solo. But, when displaying the triads of notes in the guitar view, it is wrong. I would probably have to show in a screen shot, but, if you try it, you would see the problem.

[BluGenes]

Ok, This is what I am talking about.. to me, you don't see anything really useful like this for guitar.. I should able to look at this and look at my guitar and go, oh, those notes. lol I would like to see the actual second inversion triad as played on the guitar.

[BluGenes]

maybe what is needed is a guitar chord generator.

[BluGenes]

Ok, this is a bug.. the VST loading info doesn't clear..



and so forth..

[musicdevelopments]

Thank you, BluGenes!

[musicdevelopments]

maybe what is needed is a guitar chord generator.

If you select 'Acoustic guitar' as the chord voicing for the track (or for the phrase!), the guitar chord notes will be used by the Chord Generator.

There is a sophisticated algorithm built in for finding the best guitar chord fingerings. None of the fingerings are taken from a preset table or database. You can set up parameters here, or on the fretboard when clicking on a guitar chord on the master track:

[BluGenes]

That ahh moment.. lol.. Those settings should also be in the settings tab. Changing the interval gave me the correct view. Thanks

[BluGenes]

Did drag and drop an audio file into the composition stop working for anyone else?

[lulukom]

It works for me (on Mac OS)

[BluGenes]

Ooops, yea, it works. I was trying to drag onto an already created track, when you just need to drag to an empty spot in the composition.

[BluGenes]

Ya know, would be kind of cool that when you are saving a new composition, to use the title field from the master track as the composition file name. One less step in the process, I suppose, which makes it rapid..

[Brian Collins]

Another (reasonably) reproducible crash (null reference) which kills Studio One. It has happened three times, the last one with a screen recording :


The recipe was

• extend the default composition to 8 bars

• split the harmony into one chord per bar

• extend the chord track's last phrase

• attempt to randomize the middle 6 bars

• follow the instruction to open the master track inspector

• attempt to select the middle 6 bars

The last step hangs for quite a while and then crashes Studio One.

I got 3 core dumps, that are probably not much use without a PDB. The last one (matching the recording) is:

Code: Select all

EXCEPTION_RECORD:  (.exr -1)
ExceptionAddress: 00007ffda419e385 (RapidComposerV5+0x000000000019e385)
   ExceptionCode: c0000005 (Access violation)
  ExceptionFlags: 00000000
NumberParameters: 2
   Parameter[0]: 0000000000000000
   Parameter[1]: ffffffffffffffff
Attempt to read from address ffffffffffffffff

PROCESS_NAME:  Studio One.exe

READ_ADDRESS:  ffffffffffffffff 

ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at 0x%p referenced memory at 0x%p. The memory could not be %s.

EXCEPTION_CODE_STR:  c0000005

EXCEPTION_PARAMETER1:  0000000000000000

EXCEPTION_PARAMETER2:  ffffffffffffffff

STACK_TEXT:  
00000000`0087dc80 00007ffd`a41992ee     : 00000000`b34c2760 00000000`0087f120 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : RapidComposerV5+0x19e385
00000000`0087ddd0 00007ffd`a4875d46     : 00000000`00000005 00000000`00000005 00000000`00000000 00000000`5bba4bb0 : RapidComposerV5+0x1992ee
00000000`0087f0a0 00007ffd`a43a2468     : 00000000`00000000 435a0000`43de8000 435a0000`43de8000 01dc0309`9c0e41fb : RapidComposerV5!GetPluginFactory+0x63a536
00000000`0087f600 00007ffd`a4359896     : 00000000`0087fe38 00000000`00000001 00000000`0087f8f0 00000000`0087fe38 : RapidComposerV5!GetPluginFactory+0x166c58
00000000`0087f8a0 00007ffd`a491b8fb     : 01dc0309`9c068d22 00000000`00000001 00000000`96e713a0 00000000`0087fdf0 : RapidComposerV5!GetPluginFactory+0x11e086
00000000`0087fd80 00007ffd`a491dae1     : 00000000`96e713a0 435a0000`43de8000 00000000`000001bd 00007ffd`000000da : RapidComposerV5!GetPluginFactory+0x6e00eb
00000000`0087fe30 00007ffd`a491d4dc     : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : RapidComposerV5!GetPluginFactory+0x6e22d1
00000000`0087fe80 00007ffe`d69fe8d7     : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : RapidComposerV5!GetPluginFactory+0x6e1ccc
00000000`0087ff60 00007ffe`d715c34c     : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 000004f0`fffffb30 000004d0`fffffb30 : kernel32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x17
00000000`0087ff90 00000000`00000000     : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : ntdll!RtlUserThreadStart+0x2c


SYMBOL_NAME:  RapidComposerV5+19e385

MODULE_NAME: RapidComposerV5

IMAGE_NAME:  RapidComposerV5.vst3

STACK_COMMAND: ~243s; .ecxr ; kb

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  INVALID_POINTER_READ_c0000005_RapidComposerV5.vst3!Unknown

OS_VERSION:  10.0.26100.1

BUILDLAB_STR:  ge_release

OSPLATFORM_TYPE:  x64

OSNAME:  Windows 10

IMAGE_VERSION:  1.0.0.1

FAILURE_ID_HASH:  {0b37b332-877d-1f9f-0ada-6f305804882c}

Followup:     MachineOwner

One thing that looked odd to me is the extended chord phrase, as it seemed to both join and extend - it just looks a bit dodgy, so might be implicated.

[Brian Collins]

A new unrelated question: Does Auto-harmonize require phrases to be aligned with a bar boundary?

When noodling on the piano, I came up with a 16-bar melody I quite liked and wanted to work with. It was in 3/4 with four identifiable related phrases, each with a 1/4 pick-up (anacrusis). So I dragged the quantized Midi into RC and split it into four phrases:


I planned to let RC work out some starting harmony, so I set up phrase harmonization, specifying a harmonic rhythm of a complete bar:


But the harmony changes are not at the start of the bar, but aligned with the start of the phrase:


Is this what it should do??