Zebra Arp buffer unpredictable

[CinningBao]

Hey Urs or valued u-he team member,

I'm wondering if there is any room for a feature request in the Arpeggiator? The FR would be an additional mode 'lowest first'.

I've noticed if I send a block of (say) four notes, all triggered at exactly the same time thanks to host quantization, the start note isn't always the lowest note in the chord, even if I have Order 'by note' enabled; it is quite random.

Is this just a result of the way notes are managed by the arp note buffer, and this kind of FR is impossible? Or is there the tiny chance that we could have another mode called 'lowest first'?

cheers

[tasmaniandevil]

That's a thing which also depends on the host to some extent, and it's quite a nightmare to get the arp order uniform in all available hosts.

There are even some hosts where the order of the notes depends not only on the time stamp, but also on the order in which you "painted" the individual notes in the MIDI editor of your host.
E.g. if you create three notes, C3, E3, G3, all starting on the same timestamp, and you first added the E, then the C, then the G to your MIDI roll editor, there are hosts, which take this into account and then the arp would receive the E as the first note, not the C below it.

[CinningBao]

Dagnammit. And I suppose if there _were_ a way to handle those notes with the same timestamp, but erratically handled by the various DAWs, it would have been implemented.

Ah well. thanks for letting me know the truth!

[tasmaniandevil]

Dagnammit. And I suppose if there _were_ a way to handle those notes with the same timestamp, but erratically handled by the various DAWs, it would have been implemented.

Maybe one fine day we can improve this, I think I once made a ticket for those issues in our database.
But I remember the weeks and weeks and weeks we spent on getting stuff right while working on the Repro-1 sequencer. You fix an issue in one host, and suddenly two more hosts behave erratic. You'd fix it in those, and suddenly another host swallowed some notes, and on and on and on it goes. Grew me a lot of grey hairs, and I only have to test it. If I'd have to fix those things, I'd be bald by now.