MIDI recording with countdown issue

[TatriX]

Hi! Just trying out qtractor, and so far it looks amazing!

To the issue: I've enabled a metronome with countdown (4 beats) and external MIDI clock. Then I've recorded a midi clip via external midi keyboard. But it seems that 4 beats of the countdown get recorded into the MIDI clip as well, as such creating 4 beats of silence in the beginning of the clip. Combined with looping and punch-in-out this has created a "cropped" midi clip.

Is that something expected? Thanks!

[rncbc]

yes, it's kinda expected:

the MIDI metronome do send actual beat/bar notes to the the default or first MIDI output bus/port, if not set to have a dedicated one, so these will be played on the external MIDI equipment for sure, even so the main playback is not yet rolling, as is the case with the so called count-in period.

so, it's here recommended to either: a. set the MIDI metronome to its own dedicated output ports so that not to interfere with main MIDI playback; b. use the audio metronome instead.

hth.

[TatriX]

Hm, that's what I've actually done. I send metro to channel 15, notes come from channel 1 and go to channel 9.

I'll try audio metronome then. Thanks!

[TatriX]

Tried audio metronome. It seems to have the same issue? I started playing immediately after 8 beats of preroll, but recorded midi clip has 8 beats of silence end then I guess due to punch-out and/or looping the rest is clipped.

If it's unclear what is happening, perhaps I can try making a screen recording if that helps?

[rncbc]

If it's unclear what is happening, perhaps I can try making a screen recording if that helps?

yes please. thanks

[TatriX]

https://youtu.be/ZXGZ6yYCcRQ Hope it's clearer now :)

[rncbc]

gotcha!

now I see what you mean: Count-in is delaying all MIDI recording to the same pre-roll period and that's definitely a bug!

so, for the time being, do not count-in on recording MIDI; recording audio is OK though.

until the next hot-fix release that is...

thanks for the patience and precious feedback really appreciated

[TatriX]

Perfect! I'm happy to build master branch to do the testing whenever the patch is available. Thank you for such a quick response!

[rncbc]

Perfect! I'm happy to build master branch to do the testing whenever the patch is available. Thank you for such a quick response!

there it is one hopeful attempt: https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor/commit/e82258c thanks

[TatriX]

Trying to compile master cmake -B build. This fails with:

CMake Error at src/CMakeLists.txt:323 (qt_add_translation):
  Unknown CMake command "qt_add_translation".

[TatriX]

Apparently one needs to add COMPONENTS LinguistTools to get find_package(Qt6 REQUIRED COMPONENTS LinguistTools)

[TatriX]

I think it works! Great job! I had to carefully put edit head/tail, loop start/end and then all good. Initially I had a few cases when I got no notes recorded, because aforementioned ranges weren't aligned. Will test more carefully tomorrow.

BTW, first MIDI note doesn't always play on the first loop after recording has finished due to punch-out when looping is enabled.

[rncbc]

thanks, anyway hotfix v0.9.33 is already out

enjoy