Extending a midi sequence with mouse : question

[yul]

Hello,

Thanks again for this great piece of software!

When I record a midi sequence realtime, the begging of that sequence will be at the first note played.

I frequently need to extend the beginning/end of a sequence to make it fit the bar I am working on. This makes it easier to move around the project.

Now when I try to extend, something funny happens with the notes. Either they are slided or some new notes appear.

What is the main idea behind this? Are the new notes leftovers from my recording? Can I keep the notes from sliding?

Is there information available on this? I looked but could not find it.

Many thanks

[huguesbc]

I had the same thing happen too. Short notes hiding behind long notes, same pitch, after I resize.

Eh! Greetings from Montreal.

[MuTools]

Now when I try to extend, something funny happens with the notes. Either they are slided

What do you mean with 'slided'?

(we're talking about MU.LAB 2.5.7 right?)

Please send some screenshots or a session that demonstrates this.

or some new notes appear.

When a sequence has a loop, then extending the part will make the sequence loop longer.

I guess that's what you're seeing: looped notes that appear.

If you don't want a sequence part to loop, double click it, right-click the loop locator and "Remove Loop".

Does this help?

[Bonteburg]

When you record a sequence MU.LAB lets the sequence begin at the first note rather than the start of the bar. Though, if the first note is fairly close to the start of the bar it's somehow not always the case.
The 'note sliding' effect is because MU.LAB interprets any recording as a loop. So when you're extending your recorded sequence to start earlier it just picks up on the end again.

A quick fix is to make a tiny new empty sequence before the start of your recorded bit, bridging the gap as it were and merge the two. The result will be your recorded sequence, exactly as long as you want it to be, without the note sliding effect. Note that by way of doing that you're also deleting all the loop locators. You'll need to set them up again if you're going to loop the merged part.

In the long run, I guess it would be cool to have a "Start recording from Locator" option or something similar (shameless Feature request).

[MuTools]

When you record a sequence MU.LAB lets the sequence begin at the first note rather than the start of the bar.

MU.LAB rounds the first recorded note to the earlier composer time.

By default, the composer snaps to beats. FYI: You can switch to other grids by right-clicking the composer background -> Edit -> Select Grid.

A quick fix is to make a tiny new empty sequence before the start of your recorded bit, bridging the gap as it were and merge the two.

Bonte, i'm not sure if you're talking about the 'fix' you had to do in earlier MU.LABs but note that from MU.LAB 2.5 on, changing the start of a part keeps the content of that part at the original position, but eventually extending the loop if appropriate.

I'm talking about dragging the part start, not about moving the entire part which does move its contents of course.

But maybe i'm missing a point..?

[Bonteburg]

Bonte, i'm not sure if you're talking about the 'fix' you had to do in earlier MU.LABs but note that from MU.LAB 2.5 on, changing the start of a part keeps the content of that part at the original position, but eventually extending the loop if appropriate.

Oh...of course youre right! hehe..
But it works well to make a recorded part loopable too.

EDIT: I see what you mean now.

yul: Set your composition grid to "bar" when recording and you're laughing!

[yul]

Thanks a lot guys. I understand a lot better now.

I will experiment with the looping as desc ribed.

This makes more sense.

Regards,

Yan