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Recording MIDI in linear arrangement view in adaptive harmonic context is already a killer feature of SF.
Question: Is this also possible when in snippet editing mode?
I somehow cant get the recording started.
Having it in snippet mode would follow the Ableton session view paradigm to collect small musical ides, ready for prototyping through combination with other parameters.
Wed, 2024-05-08 - 16:05 Permalink
Switch to the Structure page, create a new snippet and record a phrase there.
Wed, 2024-05-08 - 21:39 Permalink
Thx, this is understood. I think this is what I meant as linear workflow.
Please give it a thought to make it part of a full fledged snippet non-linear (Ableton-like session view) experience.
I would like record (with locked harmony) while the remaining snippets play.
This would allow to collect ideas very fast and seemless with artistic intention.
Tue, 2024-05-14 - 05:29 Permalink
On the topic:
Recording will have to start at next transition and never end because your snippet may be as long as you wish. At some point you will need to stop it manually.
In Ableton one can define before recording the length of a clip. Once the length after recording is reached, recording automatically stops, while the loops continue to play now also with new recorded clip. This is a great organic workflow.
In SF if I would define the snippet (container) length in snippet grid inspector, I would expects that SF uses this information in a similar way.
Makes sense?
Thu, 2025-01-02 - 16:39 Permalink
I echo Cliff's comments.
If it were available, I would make use of this feature in the same ways for the same reasons.
I hope this feature is "featured" in 2025!
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Also, I suggest an aspect of recording functionality that I think would help out alot - capture of early first notes. This could apply both to recording in snippets and to the current process of recording in containers.
Situation: User user is aiming to record with the first note to happen exactly on the first beat (start of) the recording. However, the user touches the first note slightly early.
What currently happens is that that early first note is not recorded at all. In summary, the recording becomes junk and has to be re-attempted.
What I suggest would be very helpful to have happen (either by default, or optionally) is for the onset of any (meaning the last) played note which overlaps the barline at the start of the recording to to be changed by the system to fall exactly on that first beat.
IOW, an "early" note would not be dropped on the floor, but would be kept and adjusted to fall on the initial beat.
This could be considered a form of record quantization, the key point being that "slightly before" beat one is detected, included and corrected rather than discarded.
Thanks for considering this. Cheers!