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Xequence midi recording max duration
I just started using Xequence to record midi out from fugue machine or other sequencers so apologizes in advance if mine is a trivial issue but it would appear that Xequence only records up to 64 bars then stops. I couldn’t find any parameter in the settings extend this duration, nor any mention of max duration for midi recording in the manual.
Is that a Xequence limitation or am I doing something wrong?
I’m using multitrack midi recording via the IAP.
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Hello @silent1... yes, you can record more than 64 bars. Xequence just considers "64 bars after the end of the last part" to be the end of the song (and stops recording there too). So if you have an empty arrangement, you won't be able to record more than 64 bars.
To work around this, just draw a very long empty part (using the draw tool in the lower left corner in the arranger). Say, if that part is 100 bars long, you'll be able to record 164 bars in one go.
Hope that helps!
Thanks @SevenSystems! I’ll do like that in the future. Though, is there a special reason for the 64 bars limitation? Wouldn’t it make also sense to keep recording as long as MIDI flow is coming in?
Anyway, nice sequencer! I found some little UI bugs (like controls not redrawing correctly when reopening Xequence from an Audiobus preset and glitches when drawing MIDI CC automations), which I could share with you as soon as I am sure about how to reproduce them.
Sure, please do report any issues you found, much appreciated!
The 64-bar-after-last-part limitation is a leftover from the very first days of Xequence and could be lifted nowadays... however there's also another component to it -- when you loop parts, Xequence creates "virtual copies" of them until the "end of the song", so the end of the song has to be somewhere, otherwise it would have to create an infinite amount of parts. I guess the best way to handle this would be to dynamically move the song end further during recording, as needed.
Anyway, implementation details I'll think about shortly!