My final round with the mp-7 - I´m tired!
2002-01-23 by heinrich22001
Thanx for all your help, guys, may I get on your nerves once again? This problem (see below) seems to be something different. I checked back on the note list last night. What I see is: The lengths of the notes have the value 0.00 016. (Does it mean, they are longer than one tick? I recorded with quantize off). But I found something weird: When I played back the drum groove from cakewalk via the mp-7-box everything sounded fine - no notes missing. (erik, that means no hihat close/open cutoffs, sometimes its affecting the bassdrum, snare etc. as well). So I checked the bars where notes are missing and found that notes that usually have the same position in the bar, have moved to a different position in the bar with the "missing" notes. Instead of - say - 14/1/32 - 14/2/32 - 14/3/32 - 14/4/32 they went: 14/1/32 - 14/2/32 - 14/2/232 - 14/2/238 - I moved them to the right position to see if it works - it does! But the velocity still was very low and I had to fix that as well. Final point: Cakewalk played back fine while recording on the mp-7, but the recorded results are moved notes with changed velocity in some bars, but sometimes just as well missing notes. One hint: Before I recorded the pattern I actually copied a formerly recorded pattern to an empty pattern, just to have the settings, then cut track 1 to clipboard to delete it, then record a new pattern on track one. Is it possible that some information (except the settings sure enough) still remains on the track when cutting it to clipboard? Could these bits and pieces disturb the newly recorded track? Sorry for the long posting. Maybe somebody knows whats going on here. I am so tired with all this fixing and asking. I can´t make music like that. I´m close to moving over to a simple machine thats working at least for me. Any suggestions are welccome. Heinrich Hi Heinrich, Go into the note list and look also, if the length of the notes is too low. I had a problem with notes that were only on tick long in logic. Importing this lines into my mp-7 made the notes not play. The problem was, that the note on and off came on the same tick and the note didn´t play. Actually this was a mistake from logic´s midifile but your problem sounds similar to me. Try to make the events longer if they are only one tick long. If the problem persists, call the emu support hotline in the usa, these guys do a really good job and helped me solving some problems i had. Alex >Von: erik_magrini@B... >Antworten an: xl7@yahoogroups.com >Datum: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:49:58 -0600 >An: xl7@yahoogroups.com >Betreff: Re: [xl7] my final round with the mp-7 >Go into Note List edit and look at the velocities and note lengths of the notes that aren't playing back. Are the velocities too low, or the note lengths too long? Also, the HH's typically use a feature called Assign Group to allow open HH's to turn off closed HH's (although it has many more uses than just this). Check on page 178 of the manual to see what I'm talking about. Go into the Preset Edit mode for the Drum Preset that's >giving you the trouble,a nd check to see if that HH is assigned to a mono >group. That would explain why the note is silent, even though you can >still >see it. Check to see if you've got other drum sounds at the same >locations >as the quiet notes, my guess is that this is what your problem >is. >rEalm >>I recorded a mididrumfile from cakewalk sonar on track 1 of the mp- 7. >>It contained - besides the kick, snare and some percussion - a >>hihat and cymbal pattern with 16th. The file is definitely not >>overloading the track, thers not much happening. Quantize during >>recording was set to "off". Playing back the unrecorded file was no >>problem at all. But after I recorded it, there are notes of the hihat >>pattern without sound. On some part of the pattern only one. On other >>parts more. No matter how often I tried this - allways the same notes >>do not sound. When I play back the recorded file very slowly I >>realize, the midi note seems to be there (or was it just a controller >>event?), because I can see the green light on, but the sound of this >>note is missing. I altered the quantize setting when I was playing >>back the file from 16 to 32. But still the same. I changed the preset >>kits - still the same problem. Is it a bug? I don´t think so, because >>its so "regular". Did I miss something? >> >>Any help is appreciated. I spent a lot of time last night in trying >>to solve >>this.