Dropped Notes in MIDI?

highmarcs · Post by **highmarcs** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 5:51 pm

I've been playing midi in Live for quite some time and have never had this problem. Today, when I went to record some simple MIDI sequences, the sequence plays back wrong, with notes that I played seemingly missing or severely cutoff.

I'm using an Edirol PC-50 controller if that helps. I've used it before with no problems, and things sound good while recording, it's just all screwed up when I play it back.

I hope this is the result of some simple setting.

laird · Post by **laird** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 5:59 pm

what is the sequence playing back on? Like, what VSTi or hardware synth?

Many electronic instrumetns allow you to set up polyphony on a per-patch basis... i.e. your bass patch may only play back one note at a time, and if you feed it a chord it'll just choose the note in the chord that came a few msec later than all the others.

highmarcs · Post by **highmarcs** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:14 pm

Hmm...it's playing Halion Player. I don't remember fooling with any of the settings from last time I used it though.

highmarcs · Post by **highmarcs** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:24 pm

On another listen, I think it might actually be adding short notes instead of dropping any. I play da...da...da...and it records da...dada...da. I can't be sure, but it sounds like it's definately adding or duplicating certain single notes. I also don't think it's the polyphony issue because the chords in the piece are all fine. It's single notes that are screwing up, but then, not all of them.

I hope this doesn't make things even more of a mystery.