Step recording via my Roland keyboard in Logic Pro 9 does not set durations properly.

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Step recording via my Roland keyboard in Logic Pro 9 does not set durations properly.

Dotted note durations don't set properly when step editing chords.

I select the MIDI In button above the score editor, and open up the Step Input Keyboard.

I then select chord mode (in the Step Input Keyboard), then set it to a dotted half note, then play the notes on my (Roland GAIA) keyboard.

Only the top two notes of the chord receive the dots, the rest of the notes are only half notes.

Sometimes it reverts to quarter notes, even though half notes is selected. Very Confusing!

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

This feels a little buggy to me, but I'm only new to Logic, so probably am missing something blindingly obvious.

Logic Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Nov 13, 2012 5:43 PM

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Pancenter

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Nov 13, 2012 10:42 PM in response to jedimark64

If it's a dotted rhythm you do have to re-select the dot each time but the most important thing is to make sure you are playing all the notes at once and lifting off the keys at the same time. MIDI is serial communication not parallel so notes do not arrive together they actually arrive one after the other. Simultaneous note on should help.

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Nov 14, 2012 2:45 AM in response to Pancenter

Hmm.. Playing all notes at _exactly_ the same does indeed help (thankyou! 🙂), but doing this is pretty darn hard to master and not very reliable (has to be down to the millisecond) - a slight variation causes it to replace what it records with another set of notes without the dot.

This is more of a problem when I'm playing full two handed chords.

When the chord button in the Step Input Keyboard is enabled and notes are played sequentially, it still resets the dot after each note, reverting to quarter notes (have no idea why!??). This seems to defeat the purpose of the chord button. (You'd think it wouldn't switch off the dot until the first note is released??)

It would make a lot more sense if it could recognize chords of over 3 notes, within a reasonable number of milliseconds for a group of note down events.

I'm still inclined to regard the current behaviour as buggish. :-/

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Pancenter

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Nov 14, 2012 9:37 AM in response to jedimark64

jedimark64 wrote:

I'm still inclined to regard the current behaviour as buggish. :-/

Agreed!

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Pancenter

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Nov 14, 2012 11:09 AM in response to Pancenter

I had my old PPC G5 up and running doing some other testing so I moved my portable M-Audio keyboard out to the back room and tested this function... it worked perfectly, you still have to select the dot but there were no trailing or lagging notes. I got a perfect dotted half or quarter tied to a half over the bar line.....everytime. So it is indeed a bug. I'm running on Snow Leopard with Logic 9.1.3. Not upgrading either.

I was using the same keyboard for the previous test as well.

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