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[Andreas Bryntesson]

sorry, but i don´t know how to make a screencast, but if it´s easy and you can help me out with it, i can give it a try!?
otherwise i can send you the file and describe what i´ve done to make this problem occur!

actually i can describe it right here and now!

* i import a midi file into ezkeys!

* if i play it without “use browser midi” activated, it sounds just like expected and just like the original midi file is supposed to sound (i´ve tried it before, but with other pianos)!

* i activate “use browser midi”!

* i choose the ballads add-on pack, straight 4/4, 70s power 63 bpm intro, variation 03!

* i have “follow host” activated and the tempo is 125 bpm and way too fast, but i like how it´s played and i want to use it, but at a slower speed!

* i push the tempo button, located above the variations, and set it to 1/2x speed!

* the tempo is ok now, but not how it´s played!
several wrong notes and it´s not played the same (not the same pattern)!

* i change the tempo back to normal speed again, using the tempo button!

* i disable “follow host” and set the tempo (right next to “follow host”) to 62.50 and push enter!

* the tempo is ok now and also how it´s played!
it´s played exactly like in normal tempo, but slower (just like it´s supposed to)!

i just went through all of these steps again, as i wrote this post and the exact same problem occured, as described!

[Andreas Bryntesson]

and here is that actual gap (follow the red line), showing that the blocks are not connected as they should and the c chord is not lined up with the grid of the timeline!
compare it to the surrounding blocks that are clearly connected properly!
this is not a “one time issue”!
during this song, even though it strangly shows only one gap in the bottom row, as shown in the first image, i just worked with it and i had to manually correct about 20-30 of those kind of gaps, by dragging them slightly, until they connected to the following block!

[Andreas Bryntesson]

i think it´s both actually!?
i don´t think there is anything wrong with the midi files, though!?
if i start moving those blocks around it happens every now and then!

if you want to try and make this happen, here´s what i did:
as i wrote about in another post, i´m having problems setting ezkeys to halfspeed (another post and another problem), so i decided to try to solve this by setting the tempo to half the size and cut every single block of the song in half!
after this was done, i had a song full of empty spaces between every block!
so i moved every block manually, to make them connect with the previous block and when that was done and i scrolled through the song to check if everything looked ok, i noticed these problems of several blocks that weren´t connected!

here is a screenshot, showing a small, but still visible gap, in the bottom row, where the red line points to!

[Andreas Bryntesson]

ok, and if i use the scroll wheel, i zoom in/out!
weird that it´s different, but both of those features are nice, so both should be available/ optional!?

[Andreas Bryntesson]

i have a good logitech g5 mouse (pc)!
the scrolling does work for me as well, but the problem is that it scrolls a very short length by every push, so to get to a certain location, you´d have to push those buttons a loooot of times, since “press and hold”, doesn´t work!

[Andreas Bryntesson]

i understand what you mean, but i´m talking about gaps that are smaller than the grid of the timeline and that shouldn´t be happening, right!?
if the blocks end up with gaps, those gaps should at least be lined up with the grid of the timeline!?

[Andreas Bryntesson]

+1 for ezkeys!

it would be very nice in every single aspect, to have the option to increase the size and hopefully even go fullscreen!
i´m probably going to buy more toontrack software so i´m hoping for the same development in all of your products!

[Andreas Bryntesson]

thanx for helping out!
can´t believe i missed that!

[Andreas Bryntesson]

i understand what you´re saying, but it´s not exactly what i mean!
it sounds terrible when i set it to halfspeed, by pushing that button, located above the column for “variations”, playing wrong notes and so on, so i´m guessing something´s wrong with those tempo buttons!?
BUT if i set it to halfspeed by changing the tempo in the “tempo box” from 125 to 62.50, it still sounds great and as it´s supposed to sound imho!
then it´s played exactly the same, only at halfspeed!

so, there are 2 different ways to make it play at halfspeed and the results should be exactly the same, but they are not!
1 sounds terrible and 1 sounds awesome!
the problem is that obviously i´d prefer to use the one that sounds terrible, cause if i change the tempo in my daw, all my other tracks are also effected!
both methods should obviously work anyway!

[Andreas Bryntesson]

i just tried this thing out, changing the tempo to halfspeed, in ezkeys!
i´m actually kind of disappointed about that feature, right now!
my song sounds great at normal speed (only way too fast), but when i change it to halfspeed, it doesn´t seem to play the same way and some of the notes sound terrible!?
i had hoped it would play the exact same way, only at halfspeed!
what´s up with this?
any solution?
am i missing something?

[Andreas Bryntesson]

yeah, you´re following me just fine, hehe;-)
the problem is that if i set my daw to halfspeed, to make it sound right with ezkeys, all my other midi tracks would change as well…!?
i´m not used to working with midi, so i could be wrong about this and your solution is probably the one i´ll use!
thx for helping out:-)

edit!
i just noticed that exactly what i´m looking for is allready built into ezkeys:-)
it´s located above the column for “variations” and there you can change the tempo of the loops:-)
awesome!:-)

[Andreas Bryntesson]

that wasn´t so hard to “fix”;-)
thanx for helping out:-)

[Andreas Bryntesson]

ok, that´s awesome!
thanx:-)

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