Topic: Grid editor BPM?

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Replied January 2, 2019 at 23:49 #2289030

LeanderL
Participant

Help please!

Clicking the play button in the grid editor always uses the wrong BPM although host sync is enabled.
Clicking the DAW play button works but then I have to select the part I would like to listen to and edit velocities for in the DAW…doing this in the grid editor would be better.

Importing my DAW’s tempo changes does not work.

By the way, can you rename instruments? I use a huge kit with lots of pieces and “Instrument 1 – instrument 12” is confusing.

SeelenPuls ~ Poetic metal from Austria: SeelenPuls.at
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Replied January 3, 2019 at 12:02 #2289537

John
Moderator

Hi,

you sync problems indeed sound strange. Have you tried recording the MIDI to the SD3 Song Track? If not, click rec in SD3 and play through the song. Create a new Song Track if you wish.

Which version number is displayed in the SD3 plugin interface?

When you have ‘Follow Host’ enabled and edit MIDI in the SD3 Grid Editor, keep in mind that if you run the SD3 timeline, the Tempo used will be where the Playhead is in your host, unless you have imported the Tempo changes from a MIDI file exported from your DAW song and disable the ‘Follow Host’ button.

BR,

John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied January 5, 2019 at 00:48 #2291890

LeanderL
Participant

Thanks, John! I am a Sonar user. The midi does not contain BPM…actually I set them in Guitar Pro but exporting them does not work. I set the temp changes in Sonar, tempo settings…

Navigating in Sonar works but as soon as I click in the grid editor and hit the play button there, the tempo changes are not correct.
How can I import them into the grid editor?

SeelenPuls ~ Poetic metal from Austria: SeelenPuls.at
Grummelgnom ~ Sociocritical metal from the forest: Grummelgnom.at

Replied January 5, 2019 at 12:14 #2292385

John
Moderator

Well, if you have exported a MIDI file of the Song from Sonar and used that MIDI file to Import the Tempo changes to the SD3 Song Track, they will happen if you run the Song Track in SD3.

As I wrote above, you need to click ‘Follow Host’ to disable it if you want to run the SD3 Song Track and use the Grid Editor with the Imported Tempo changes happening, otherwise ‘Follow Host’ will set a fixed Tempo of where the playhead is in your DAW.

BR,

John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor
Replied January 5, 2019 at 22:53 #2293394
LeanderL
Participant
Thank you, found it! Now I entered all tempo changes and want to set all notes to 124 velocity. Every time I click a certain icon (marked red) the program crashes. Crash report and image attached.

How can I use the velocity and randomize sliders? The mouse is not sensitive enough. I can only reduce it by a minimum of 9 but not less. How can you do this via keyboard?

http://www.seelenpuls.at/temp/crash.zip

SeelenPuls ~ Poetic metal from Austria: SeelenPuls.at
Grummelgnom ~ Sociocritical metal from the forest: Grummelgnom.at
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Replied January 7, 2019 at 15:29 #2295667

Henrik Ekblom
Participant

LeanderL wrote:

Thank you, found it! Now I entered all tempo changes and want to set all notes to 124 velocity. Every time I click a certain icon (marked red) the program crashes. Crash report and image attached.

How can I use the velocity and randomize sliders? The mouse is not sensitive enough. I can only reduce it by a minimum of 9 but not less. How can you do this via keyboard?

I have asked a coder to take a look at the crash!

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

Replied January 7, 2019 at 15:47 #2295690

LeanderL
Participant

Thanks! What about my slider question please?

SeelenPuls ~ Poetic metal from Austria: SeelenPuls.at
Grummelgnom ~ Sociocritical metal from the forest: Grummelgnom.at

Replied January 7, 2019 at 18:02 #2295841

Patrik Wall
Participant

I have located and fixed the crash, it will be included in a future patch but I cannot give any ETA unfortunately.

Thanks for helping us make Superior better and sorry for the inconvenience!

As a workaround until then you could try adding a couple instruments (“add instrument” on the “Drums” page) and see if it helps with the crash, it looks like you probably had a few added instruments that later has been removed from the project which is a possible cause for the crash.

Let me know how it goes.

/Patrik

Bass player in swedish thrash metal band Defiatory
www.defiatory.se

Coder at Toontrack
www.toontrack.com

Replied January 7, 2019 at 21:07 #2296057

John
Moderator

LeanderL wrote:

Thanks! What about my slider question please?

If you hold SHIFT while dragging the slider you can fine-tune the values

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied January 9, 2019 at 23:02 #2300335

LeanderL
Participant

Thank you! 🙂

Another question: is it possible to paint velocity lines, for example a straight or curve? Changing each hit is a bit tedious.

SeelenPuls ~ Poetic metal from Austria: SeelenPuls.at
Grummelgnom ~ Sociocritical metal from the forest: Grummelgnom.at

Replied January 10, 2019 at 09:56 #2301054

Henrik Ekblom
Participant

LeanderL wrote:

Another question: is it possible to paint velocity lines, for example a straight or curve? Changing each hit is a bit tedious.

You can select the notes you want to straighten out, and drag the Dynamics slider to 0.

To create a slope of the Velocity values for the selected notes, drag the slope handles up or down.

I’ve added a feature request to our list to draw straight lines with the draw tool when holding Shift key.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack
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