Re; Margo's Midi clips

Hi there,

Sorry, not sure if I can have been imagining things or what!

Manuel suggested I try playing the clips on megamid. They sounded
okay, and then after playing on the regular player, sounded okay
on that too, no cut off staccato notes.

Tried a reboot, and it still works okay now.

Something strange, but perhaps won't affect many, maybe some kind
of short term bug in my midi player?

The notes still may not all be sustained for quite as long as they should do,
as a single note off can switch off multiple note offs
for whatever note + channel number it is for, on low to middle
range devices.

My soundcard does that occasionally, not always.
I.e. switch on midi note 60 for channel 1, do same note again
for same channel, then switch it off once, and both _may_
get switched off, depending. Since as John says, it is a very commonly
used card (and others may do the same thing), it is best to avoid
that situation if one can.

However, at least the note ons aren't being treated
as notes offs any more - and at least I'm hearing them all as chords
rather than as single notes with very short staccato extra notes
at the start of the chord.

I've just the moment discovered a .wav recording I did of
them with the idea of possibly sending it on to Margo (if one could
find a way to do so), and true enough, it does
have those funny effects, so it wasn't just my imagination.

So, I think conclusion has to be, some kind of short term bug
that has cleared itself up.

Thanks Margo for sharing these clips with us!

Robert

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Robert wrote:

> My soundcard does that occasionally, not always.
> I.e. switch on midi note 60 for channel 1, do same note again
> for same channel, then switch it off once, and both _may_
> get switched off, depending. Since as John says, it is a very commonly
> used card (and others may do the same thing), it is best to avoid
> that situation if one can.

My DX21 does this consistently, so it certainly is best to avoid the
situation. Any pitch bend tuning software should send a premature note
off to prevent two overlapping notes on the same key on the same channel.

Graham