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@dwrae sorry to spam. Last request re:midi. It would be extremely useful to have a ‘refresh midi connections’ button (or some automated way of doing this). Right now if you launch an app after you’ve launched AEMS you have to save the project, quit, restart and the load the project just to get the new app show up in the list of available midi connections.
Not a huge deal, but with midi debugging the less restarting the better!
Worked nicely in BM2...and 3
Link here too would be sweet.
So far hitting the record in AEM at the right time is as good as sync gets (and dragging the tracks’ midi notes to the right place after).
Hosting in AB3, the two apps can sit in input slot (to use the control panel with go and Rec near each other when in the AEM or genome gui). Audiobus “play” syncs starts Genome via Link, so its the same number of buttons to hit at once but with AB they’re on the same screen
+1000
Ok. So I’ve now done some rather extensive MPE testing...
For testing I’ve got a Roli Lightblock and also the ‘Aftertouch’ app (Aftertouch • 3D MIDI Controller by Kevin Nelson - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/aftertouch-3d-midi-controller/id1133701231?mt=8)
What I’ve found is (basically we’re nearly there - but not quite!)
Hope the above is helpful. (iPhone 6s plus iOS 11).
@dwrae Further digging around...
It seems that ‘channel pressure’ (per channel) is actually different to ‘polyphonic key pressure’ (per key). Apps like Roli Noise and Volt appear to respond to both.
Usefully, the ‘Aftertouch app’ allows you to send either (although you can only send ‘polyphonic key pressure’ if you restrict it to be sending on 1 midi channel).
I would guess that AEMS is listening for ‘polyphonic key pressure’ rather than ‘channel pressure’ because when I send the former to it from the Aftertouch app it works, and the latter doesn’t. But something else might of course be responsible for this.
I don’t know what the Roli Lightblock is sending, perhaps ‘polyphonic key pressure’ because it shows up in the midi clip when AEMS connects directly to it. But unfortunately a side effect is that notes seem to get filtered out when a direct connection is made. (Just an idea, but maybe this is to do with the order things are sent in? Eg Roli might be sending pressure and CC’s before notes, and AEMS might not like this and is therefore dropping the notes?)
Finally I would guess that somehow going via midiflow corrects the dropped notes issue (maybe down to my order idea?) but introduces a problem receiving ‘pressure’. I’m pretty sure MidiFlow converts ‘polyphonic key pressure’ into ‘channel pressure’ and thus this is no longer picked up in AEMS.
Here’s some more details on the differences between the two types of pressure:
http://www.audiomasterclass.com/newsletter/the-difference-between-channel-aftertouch-and-polyphonic-aftertouch
The solution would seem to be to get AEMS to record, per midi channel, both ‘channel pressure’ (per channel) and ‘polyphonic key pressure’ (per key) if possible.
Hope the above is useful and appologies if ive got anything wrong!
Yup.
That's seems like it sums it up from my perspective. I don't see anything major that it brings if you're already happy with Cubasis or Auria. But, having something for iPhone is a big deal.
If someone didn't already have a DAW it certainly is no slouch, and is worth considering.
And MIDI clock sync in and out, which is just as important when working with non-Link-compatible hardware or software.
But it's not easy to implement in a DAW. Ableton and Logic do it quite well, but there are limitations that everyone should be aware of when using LINK and/or MIDI Clock in a DAW with audio tracks.
MIDI tracks are simple: Every event has a clear timestamp and the number of events are very limited compared to audio samples. Stretching or compressing the event grid with tempo changes is a natural thing and the audio that is produced from them will still remain in correct pitch.
Audio tracks are a completely different story.
"To hell with rendered audio not timestretching" does not mean you can ignore the audio tracks. Most people will expect the tracks to not drift off-beat and to be played at the correct pitch. Some people also expect the slave-clocked DAW to follow tempo changes "immediately" which is even harder.
With both LINK and MIDI Clock you could of course pre-set a tempo in the DAW that follows LINK/MIDI Clock in the case you don't have major tempo changes and have the DAW only accept minor drifts of MIDI clock, ignore sporadic clock pulses too far away and interpolate them using an internal, phase-locked clock generator which is what some of those "magic MIDI Clock processors" do.
Still, you have to find a solution for the audio tracks to play in an acceptable way.
As re-pitching usually isn't an option (except for drums, fx and non-tonal sounds), you'll be forced to do some kind of time-stretching/compression.
In the case of a relatively steady clock without major tempo changes (and that's 99.9% of the songs today), time corrections can often be done by rather simple, transient-aware algorithms.
Anyway, both the clock smoothing and the time correction of audio tracks have to be done properly or people will either complain or just not use the sync features.
Gadget is a bad example because it does not touch the audio tracks at all, effectively making rhythmic audio tracks unusable at different tempi.
No, mute won't help since it must be instantly possible to unmute.
In all honesty, I ordered it because it didn't work at all (no events were coming in), but now I have it, it's worth looking into MPE.
Ok, and which buttons are you referring to? You indeed cannot use the mixer channel at the left while playing notes. But I haven't come across any noticable delay when playing the keyboard, chords or not, so I'm not sure what to fix here.
Ah, you are actually drawing a new clip that way, so it's not a range (which what caused the confusion with me).
Yes, now back to your original problem:
" but the former selection does not seem to play a role anymore ... i would expect the Piano Roll to be the number of bars i selected initially. Also this initial selection is not visible as range or as markers at all! And finally, even as you cannot see such things, it seems to be a problem when you then add notes outside of the original selection"
When you create a clip like that, you enter the piano roll. The bars/clip you have created is visible with a white background. When you scroll right, you will see that the part outside the clip is drawn with a red background.
Please send it to [email protected], thanks!
And changing the instrument to be a ‘silent soundfont’ doesn’t really help either because it means you lose all the settings (the patch) on the actual instrument/AU - and have to remember them somehow.
Cool!
To summarise my overly long emails above on MPE.
@tja
If I draw outside the white area I get:
Just say "Yes".
How do you delete a track?
Long press on the track and more options come up
Thanks you!!
Is it possible to copy paste automation?
I want to duplicate those 4 bars on 32 bars.
I think so
What's wrong with that?
You're not forced to exit the piano roll, that's why you're asked when done editing, and usually you'd create longer clips in the first place: EDIT > Tap and drag to the length you want > The piano roll opens automatically. (make sure the grid is enabled)
Let's suppose we have a number of clips of same or different length within one MIDI track and you're editing the first of two adjacent clips.
When you enter notes in the red area showing the range outside the clip, would you expect AEM to extend the clip length automatically so the clips overlap?
I wish someone made some better videos for this thing, I.e. “One foot in front of the other” style. I find the existing ones a bit hard to follow.
Just started playing around with this. As usual when trying a new DAW, everything is a bit weird (no back button from the piano roll, just the next button?)
However it didn’t take long to get used to the basics. I love it’s simplicity and focus on supporting au, IAA etc.
One thing - all my drum apps are IAA I think, apart from BeatHawk which doesn’t seem to load properly. What is everyone using?
I usually do
@dwrae do you think it’s possible to add selection and copy paste features to automations?
Also, can you automate AU instrument knobs? Is that possible on any daw at the mo?