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new pitched MIDI out mode (v0.23)

julianjulian
edited July 2013 in Technical details and features
the last update includes a new MIDI out mode.
Still needs some work though ;)

Each track now has it's own MIDI channel.
It was removed from the settings menu.
It can now be found on the mixer page 2.
In Trigger mode all tracks use channel 1 settings atm.
MIDI channels are still being saved in the global settings.

On the settings page you can now choose the midi mode ("mid")
trg - trigger mode - the old mode
nte - note mode - each track uses its own midi channel and sends out note number information

I'm not really happy about the note offs.
At the moment you have to set them manually using note ons with a velocity of 0.
Gives some nice opportunities (like only randomizing note offs)
but is no fun to program.

auto note offs before the next note on would prohibit legato note programming.
Gate length per step uses too much memory.

Would a global gate length parameter that can be automated using one of the automation tracks be any good?

Further the MIDI in recording does not work yet for midi note mode.

Comments

  • loderbastloderbast
    nice to hear you are working on this.

    >>  Gate length per step uses too much memory.

    is there any available pattern memory?
    .. like 3 or 4 bit per step??
    the problem is the pattern loading time, or memory at the mainboard?

    i was thinking about all this, too. i had some ideas, but all involve something to be saved per step..
  • macMOEmacMOE
    edited July 2013
    I just checked out the new pitched midi out and it's brilliant.
    For the gate lenght/note off setting i think it could work that if you press a button while holding down another one, the lxr automatically selects "0" velocity and the note value of the held down step. I don't know how to handle sub steps like that though.
  • bassFantbassFant
    How are note offs handled in trigger mode? Are they send at all? Voting for a global (per track?) gate length parameter to make the note mode usable as a beginning.
  • udenjoeudenjoe
    Great to hear you are working on this. Great feature :))
  • paul_vpaul_v
    Voting for a global (per track?) gate length parameter to make the note mode usable as a beginning.
    +1  :-bd
  • loderbastloderbast
    +1 for macmoes idea.

    More flexible than the global gate length and probably also more easy to implement.
  • udenjoeudenjoe
    Does the midi transport in not work with this? 

    I'm using an external midi (Octatrack) to start my sequencers. I didn't find a way to start the LXR sequencer remotely after updating to the latest version.
  • julianjulian
    MIDI start/stop should work.
    Only MIDI sng position is not implemented yet.
  • MasarinMasarin
    My LXR is starting perfectly together with Reaper but if I then pause or stop and then restart Reaper somewhere (not from the beginning), LXR won't start. Do you know what the problem could be?
  • loderbastloderbast
    maybe reaper won't send "midi start" in that case, but "midi continue" (0xFB). if that is not implemented it would explain the problem. would make sense, because i think continue is usually used together with "song position".
  • julianjulian
    Added to the buglist. I think it should be the missing midi song position implementation.
  • udenjoeudenjoe
    I did get it to work.

    I saw a strange behavior with the lxr that was probably buggy while switching to external mode. It wouldn't even switch back to internal. I had to reboot. I can't describe the repro steps.
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