Hello,
I've really found the "step by note" option useful in the MIDI editor. This makes it easy to double-check the pattern for accuracy, note-by-note. Recall that this feature was added in a half-year ago, for which I'm grateful.
One addition to it I'd really like to see (or hear, rather), is the ability to have the notes play as they are stepped through. There's already a button to turn this on for "draw a note (pencil)" mode. Would it possible to make that also work for note-step mode?
This was a feature I used continually back in the dark ages when composing with Cakewalk running on a DOS computer. It makes the double-checking of patterns super fast by a single keystroke (with no mouse).
I have no idea if this would conflict elsewhere, and moreover don't want to come across as greedy. But if it were indeed possible, it'd be a great help to me.
Thanks for listening.
re. Wish: Sound with note-step in MIDI editor...
if the track where the clip resides is set to "monitor", possibly in "omni" mode too, or it's the current highlighted track and you have it on "Auto-monitor" mode, then you can of course hear the step-input notes being entered...
or am I missing something?
byee.
Unless I'm missing something…
Unless I'm missing something too, you're writing of note entry, not a later step-through for confirmation, which is what I was asking of.
As mentioned, I'm not concerned about hearing notes when they're entered (which is already an existing feature in Qtractor), but hearing them when the composer comes back later to check a passage using "step by note."
To repeat, and for emphasis: in the MIDI editor, when viewing a pattern which has already been created, and when stepping along note-by-note, it would be useful to hear each of those while the colored piano-bar progresses.
For double-emphasis: it's a step-by-note with sound I'd like.
But you say it's already there, so I'll keep exploring. If that's the case and I'm being stupid, perhaps some helpful person will add an explanation to the documentation of how that feature works.
re. missing something…
oh, no, my mistake
now I understand, you're referring to the Transport > Step > Note > Forward, Backward commands...
but no, it's just supposed to step-move the play-head to the next or previous note, no to play them: that is only possible if playback is actually rolling...
what you wish may be doable, but one thing will be certain: it will play only the note(s) at the current play-head position when stepping forward and the previous one when stepping backward.
is that really what you're asking for?
UPDATE: good news! it's now in qtractor >= v1.5.5.5git.bdd9c9UPDATE2: bad news: no cigar!UPDATE3: better news now in qtractor >= v1.5.5.6git.49a024, please test&&tell, cheers!
Fantasic!
It works like a charm, and many, many thanks!
With this addition, the MIDI editor really does become "self-contained" for this sort of composing. By that I mean, entering, editing, and especially reviewing a passage is super slick now, greatly minimizing the mouse/keyboard switching.
To put it another way, anyone accustomed to older software (like me) should instantly feel at home when designing and testing a MIDI sequence, note by note, from the computer only. There's nothing new to learn; it all seems familiar.
I love, besides being able to exploit all the sophisticated wonders of Qtractor, I can still rely on thirty years of habits ingrained from older, and more primitive software.
So, thanks; you made my day!
Thomas
Pause transport?
The requested behavior would be what you'd expect if there were a "Pause" key.
Interestingly, I always thought that key didn't make sense in a digital environment... However, here's a situation.
Proof that the pause "mode" would work: if you press play and hold the step rewind key, you force the head to rewind, and both the MIDI notes and the audio tracks do what you'd expect (something similar to when you pressed the rewind and pause keys on a cassette). They play in reverse.
Perhaps pressing play + control could activate pause mode.
It should do everything that play mode does (in terms of sound activation) except move in time.
I don't know if what I'm saying is nonsense, if it's simpler than the current development... or something impossible...
I'm just reflecting in writing.
re. Pause transport?
but that's not even close or related to the topic at hand, I believe...
let the OP clear it up :)
It has to do with...
It has related with the fact that it would allow you to hear the notes in all cases, including this one.
But it would also allow you to hear the audio from other tracks, so it would be annoying and confusing.
A custom solution like this is much more optimal :).
I just tried it, and I must admit I'm starting to understand the virtues of working with MIDI only using a computer keyboard (copying and pasting notes) step-by-step.
Maybe soon I'll find myself editing drum patterns only in this strict mode without a MIDI controller or mouse :).
As @bluebell says in another post... Qtractor is getting COOLER and COOLER.
re. COOLER and COOLER...
in such a way that it freezes sometimes XD
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