New midi track in arrange view not following time signature

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LittleWiggler
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New midi track in arrange view not following time signature

Post by LittleWiggler » Wed Mar 13, 2013 4:22 pm

I have a set with a 6/4 measure mid way through it in the Arrangement view.
I added a new midi track.
The midi track is all 4/4 - the 6/4 measure seems to be ignored.

Thanks
John

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Re: New midi track in arrange view not following time signature

Post by LittleWiggler » Fri Mar 15, 2013 3:57 pm

Anyone else experiencing this?

It makes it hard to actually use right now.

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Re: New midi track in arrange view not following time signature

Post by [nis] » Fri Mar 15, 2013 6:19 pm

I'm not sure if I'm missing something from your description, but adding a time signature change in the Arrangement will not affect clips that already exist in your set, nor clips that you import into your set. Only newly created clips (e.g. by recording or by using the "Insert MIDI Clip" command) will affect the clip's own signature. This has always been the case and should not have changed with Live 9.

In case you're having a different issue, please provide a detailed description of what exactly you do, what you expect to see and how it actually behaves, e.g. something like this:

Steps to reproduce:
1. click here
2. click there
3. click again

Expected result:
no bug

Actual result:
bug


Thanks,
Nico
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LittleWiggler
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Re: New midi track in arrange view not following time signature

Post by LittleWiggler » Fri Mar 15, 2013 6:36 pm

Thanks for the response.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Create a new set
2) Leave the time signature at the default 4/4
3) Go to arrangement view
4) At measure 4 insert a new time signature of 6/4
5) At measure 5 insert a new time signature of 4/4
6) Create a new midi clip from measure 1 through 6
7) Double click on the new clip to open the clip view

Expected result:
The time signature in the clip view should show 6/4 for measure 4

Actual result:
Time signature is 4/4 for the entire clip

I could create a single clip for the 6/4 measure, but that kind of defeats the reason for a set based time signature.

I found this while trying to set up a midi lighting cue track. It is the length of the entire song. Manually inserting the cues is problematic since I am inserting midi events at absolute measure #'s.

Thanks again
John

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