CrispyoatsHi folks.
It seems I cant find an answer to this one. I hope EZkeys team or users can help.
I have several melodic 3rd party MIDI loop packs, where loops (if opened in DAW) are not positioned on time line at Bar1/Beat1. Actual clips have proper start and end points, they are just not positioned on timeline from the start. EZkeys V1 and V2 do not recognize these properly. For these loops to work right, files have to be opened in DAW, clips moved to bar1 and re-saved. This is very labor intensive, as there are hundreds of files.
I am sure I am not the only one who experienced this, as I have seen at least several loop packs from different companies where clips don’t start at Bar 1…
I was hoping V2 would address this, but seems it was not. Is there some kind of batch converter that can prep such loops so their position is right for EZkeys?
Thanks.
CrispyoatsBump and disappointment in Toontack customer service.
2 weeks is more than enough for customer rep to step in to answer fairly simple question. Perhaps they were busy with new release…. So hoping to get a feedback on my question now.
Andreas WalfridssonHi!
Thanks for your question!
I’m not exactly sure what you mean by “EZkeys V1 and V2 do not recognize these properly”. Are you asking for a way to automatically batch cut the clips so that the first note of each clip is placed at the beginning of bar 1?
What 3rd party MIDI libraries are you using?
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Andreas Walfridsson
Andreas Walfridsson - Toontrack
UX Designer
CrispyoatsHi Andreas.
I though I was clear… In any case here is a short video of the issue:
Flashback – Jun 6, 2023 #1 – YouTube
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Thanked by: Andreas Walfridsson
JohnHi,
I suspect Andreas is going to want more than that to go on, for starters exactly which 3rd party MIDI libraries are you talking about? Without access to the particular MIDI, it will be hard to analyse what is happening.
If I understand you correctly, when you import your 3rd party MIDI to your DAW, it is placed at random times on your timeline, not Bar 1. That indicates that there is a time stamp in the MIDI which generally would make no sense for EZkeys 2 to ignore.
BR,
John
John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor
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Thanked by: Andreas WalfridssonAndreas Walfridssonhere is a short video of the issue: Flashback – Jun 6, 2023 #1 – YouTube
Thanks! I’ll add this to our to-do-list.
Andreas Walfridsson - Toontrack
UX Designer
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Thanked by: Kevin BenoitCrispyoatsAndreas,
Thank you for reply. I have met a few people that use your EZkeys that had the same issue. They would just give up. I sincerely hope this will get fixed. That was one of my bigger hopes for V2…
I specifically don’t want to mention Loop libraries, not to put them in “bad light”, because actual loops are great. Lets just say that out of 7 different packs that I bought from Bigfish, 3 had these issues. One developer sent me a “fixed” version where he moved all to bar#1, but it would be ridiculous to expect that every maker will do same.
Unfortunately, I could not find any batch converter to move and re-save midi clips in bulk to start at Bar#1, so my only hope at this time, that Andreas and whoever will look at this will fix it, otherwise it is a pain to manually resave, especially bigger packs.
Thank you.
Sidenote. On this forum, 2 questions are asked with every post of: EZkeys version and Operating system. A good idea would be to “remember” choices from initial post and not to ask again… at least in the same thread.
CrispyoatsJohn,
Many loop packs I came across do not start at Bar1, but the clip is properly sliced. (has proper Start and End points) So there should be a simple mechanism in EZkeys to correct this, as this is fairly common. A global setting/option to “ignore time stamp” would work.
“which generally would make no sense for EZkeys 2 to ignore.”
Not true. Make whole lots of sense to me and a few other people I met who encountered same issue and don’t have time of tinkering and re-saving hundreds of files.
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