[ddots-l] Re: Selecting individual MIDI events for length adjustment
- From: "Phil Halton" <philhalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:21:56 -0500
MessageHoly Cow! I actually understood most of that in one pass. And, When
that book comes out, I'd like a signed copy.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin L. Gibbs
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 1:03 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Selecting individual MIDI events for length adjustment
Phil,
While I hadn't considered that, the reason was because I was looking for
a more efficient means of selecting single events or discontiguous ones, much
like you would choose discontiguous files for copying and pasting in Windows
Explorer with a CTRL Space bar. The situation is somewhat complicated:
1. I'm studying a wide variety of subjects ranging from MIDI sequencing with
VSL to orchestration and, I suppose, composition, with a guy who has my
identical rig except that he's sighted.
2. We each have multiple computers with Sonar and Giga and VSL. The thing
is that he was teaching me how to humanize my MIDI performances "THE HARD WAY,"
by altering the most minute details of each and every event in the sequence,
including adding special expression and other controller events. One is
supposed to be able to do this stuff more efficiently using VSL's Performance
Tool in the Giga version, or by using their new Vienna Instruments. However, I
wanted to learn the guts of really finely detailed sequencing by doing stuff
literally by hand.
He was using the Process Length command to alter durations after we had
put some tempo changes in the sequence. I later changed these tempos after
which some of the note releases sounded off. Originally, I thought the notes
were sounding slurred because the durations needed adjustment after I'd changed
the tempos. That wasn't the problem.
The fact was that we also had a special CC 18 message that altered ADSR
in Giga. AS it happened, certain values of this Controller 18 message were
effective when paired with the tempos we had. However, when I changed the
tempo map, it turned out that the ADSR changes just sounded like badly slurred
notes. I wondered if there was something that the process length command did
that was over and above simply changing the duration value in the event list.
There wasn't. The reason why these CC 18 messages failed to provide the
desired effect when paired with alternate tempos was because, as you know,
ADSR is a fixed thing. The fact was that the slurs sounded bad because the
ADSR was wrong for notes progressing at the tempos I had set. Follow? I guess
I'll just put that in my soon-to-be best seller, "Press the Reset Button,
(volume 12, revised edition.)"
duh-------
BTW this will be of interest to any of you who exchange cwp files with
sighted colleagues who use alternate screen layouts. If you open a file you've
gotten from another Sonar user and it starts talking about how the inspector
isn't displaying and successive F6s only appear to refresh the inspector, It's
probably because the project work space is a fraction of what CT expects. By
going to the window menu and choosing either cascade, tile in rows or tile in
columns, you will cause the work space to expand to occupy the entire screen as
we're accustomed to. From there, it's a simple matter to do an F6 and refresh
the screen so that all will be well.
Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Phil Halton
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 7:29 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Selecting individual MIDI events for length
adjustment
K,
You can use the Interpolate function (double shift F3). This assumes there
is some rhyme or reason to the notes you want to change, of course. Example,
if you want to change all notes in a given range like G#3 thru B4, or in a
certain velocity range, or even duration ranges, or any combo thereof. You
probably already know this stuff, but there's a full lesson on the interpolate
function in CT tutorial.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin L. Gibbs
To: ctbeta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 9:06 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Selecting individual MIDI events for length adjustment
I wan to select individual MIDI events and alter their lengths by using
the length dialog under Process instead of altering their durations in the
event list. How can I select an individual note, or select discontiguous
individual MIDI events in the event list view. It doesn't seem to be possible.
K.
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