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beta8 plays MIDI file (fade to grey.mid) and Mclk In/OUT is USB1 on/on (even with off/off or off/on).
If i try to sync this with ableton (EXT SYNC), i do get flucutating (around 800-900 BPM) on the Display and
a synth inside this behaves the same, e.g. the sync between the mbseq and ableton is not possible :-(
It should work now (beta9).
In distance to the previous solution, the sequencer core is not disabled anymore in "Exclusive mode". Instead, the tracks will be muted (not visible in Mute page yet - will be done later)
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Also once a midi file has been selected it will always be played when you start the sequencer.
The MIDI file is now properly synchronized to the running sequence.
This was really hard work at my side - I hope that all possible cases are covered! :-/
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When Pressing C on Trigger Layer, i get the Assignment window (a-H), is that correct ?
Yes, because there are 8 trigger layers, I had to find a way to make all layers selectable, so that no additional "Trigger Selection" button is required.
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Pressing C on pattern layer shows me Note/Vel/Len Menu, also correct?
Yes, so long more than 4 parameter layers are configured.
I guess you configured it for 8 or 16?
If a track only consists of 4 parameter layers, ParLayer C button will toggle between layer C and D
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synchronous pattern change is working great. It makes it real fun to switch patterns on the fly and stay in sync. And it will be more fun when I get the leds soldered :)
cool! :)
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About the midi files. I havent used midi files very much in the past but if I could edit them on the mbseq I would start using them more often. are they stored in a song bank? or would it lay out the midi tracks from the files to each track on the sequencer when in pattern mode. It would be interesting to go to options and select midi player view and be able to mute and unmute the individual midi tracks form the mid files like you would in the mute page and edit each mid tracks notes from the edit mode the same aswell. You could have a pop up warning to tell you your in "midi player view" Then I could assign a function button to make short cut so I could handle classical midi files and seq beats in dj fashion:D
I would probably guess that this would be hard to do because the patterns loop and midi files don't. This is probably to much to ask for.
Yes, thats really too much!!!
A MIDI file is just a stream of MIDI events, MBSEQ plays this stream to the end and optionally loops. Editing this stream would require a lot of work at my side which I don't really want to do.
You could import the stream into one or more tracks, edit the events there, export back to a MIDI file and play it again... it's like rendering one or more patterns to a file, and play them as a single additional pattern in parallel to the 4 patterns which can be edited interactively. I will use Meta events to embed track parameters, so that they won't get lost during export/import.
You could also export tracks/patterns/songs to a file, edit them with your DAW, and import back to MBSEQ. Currently I don't know, how comfortable this can be realized... due to all the options, the usage could get complicated.
Adding even more features for the MIDI file feature would make the usage even more complicated.
In short: I would like to keep it simple.
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I think if the midi files could start synced to mb internal patterns we'll be set.
thats possible now.
Best Regards, Thorsten.
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