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hello, how to get the duration of currently midi note played in midi clip ? thx.

call "get_notes" on the target clip, and concurrently observe "playing_position".

notein > borax

borax reports the duration at note off.

yep. thx.

- borax doesn't fir as I need duration at note on.

- "get_note" & "playing_position" : yes I supposed something like that but I can't achieve it. could you share the code please ?

elt.net wrote:yep. thx.

- borax doesn't fir as I need duration at note on.

- "get_note" & "playing_position" : yes I supposed something like that but I can't achieve it. could you share the code please ?

Don't have any code and no time for now, sorry !
With pleasure sometime later if there is no rush ?

no prob. It was just in case you had it already. thx.

chapelier fou wrote:call "get_notes" on the target clip, and concurrently observe "playing_position".

Nice idea but the timing will be problematic due to unpredictable latency of the Live API.
Just did a test with a clip note on beat 1.0 where the observer reports playing_position 0.85 (!)

broc wrote:

chapelier fou wrote:call "get_notes" on the target clip, and concurrently observe "playing_position".

Nice idea but the timing will be problematic due to unpredictable latency of the Live API.
Just did a test with a clip note on beat 1.0 where the observer reports playing_position 0.85 (!)

Ah. Those latency issues are so frustrating.

ouch. ok I'll check it but I'm afraid it will not very useful…

Notice that the latency problem can be eliminated under certain conditions. For example, if the clip notes are strictly quantized to 8th (0.5 beats), the observer output could be quantized accordingly using [round 0.5] to ensure accurate timing.

yes absolutely right. but unfortunately I plan to do something not quantized at all.

Maybe tell us what you want to achieve ?
Sometimes it's good to have a different point of view, as there might be another way to do it.

yes for sure I'll do asap. we're a little bit busy now. thx.

Just a tip (I didn't take time to explore yet) but it seems [borax] should do the job… no ?

Edit: ha No, duration is sent at noteoff, and I need it at noteon…

There may be a solution by giving each note a unique number:

1. Load the clip notes into a coll with index numbers, sort by start times and renumber the indices.

2. At playback count the note-on events and get the corresponding duration from coll.