live recording of overlapping notes

MIDIbox SEQ
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Hi!

 

I’m the proud owner of a seq v4. Amazing but overwhelming…:slight_smile:

 

What I wanted really bad, coming from the octatrack midi sequencer is being able to record overlapping notes. I though it would be easy, using the PL, but I don’t succeed.

 

What I mean is for example:

 

step 1: 1 note, length 10 steps

step 5: 1 note, length 10 steps

 

And this, preferrably, using live recording.

 

Is this possible? I might have misinterpretated the manual…

 

thanks!

Jasper

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Hi Jasper,

 

no, unfortunately this isn’t possible because of the way how MBSEQ stores MIDI events.

It would require a different concept to store the data (like on a pianoroll known from DAWs) with the disadvantage that some step based features wouldn’t work anymore.

 

Best Regards, Thorsten.

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Thanks very much for the quick answer, Thorsten!

 

Too bad, this isn’t possible. I will have to get back to the PC to do complex midi recording. I understand the limitations though, and the SEQ can do a lot the pc can’t of course… 

 

I’ve been thinking though. Could it be a solution to ‘spawn’  overlapping notes across multiple tracks? So, if I wan’t to record a ‘complex’  sequence, I select more than one track (with the same port and channel of course) and the Midibox lays out notes intelligently across the selected channels so overlapping is possible. 

 

thanks!

Jasper

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Hi Jasper,

 

unfortunately it won’t be so easy to add such an option to the firmware.

 

However, if you are already using a STM32F4 core module, there is hope that the MIDIbox SEQ V4+ Firmware could support “free-style” tracks :slight_smile:

But I won’t start to work on this before end of this year (and I already postponed the start of development by +1 year)

 

Best Regards, Thorsten.