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by stubbsonic
Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:53 am
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: MIDI Graphic Editor: question & LONG overdue gripe
Replies: 13
Views: 628

Re: MIDI Graphic Editor: question & LONG overdue gripe

Can you control the scrolling by regulating how far off window your cursor is? For me, the "pain" of this is that the graphic editor used to work so much faster and easier. I guess I could try to install an older version on an older computer, but the trade-off is that it will be crashy aga...
by stubbsonic
Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:41 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: MIDI Graphic Editor: question & LONG overdue gripe
Replies: 13
Views: 628

MIDI Graphic Editor: question & LONG overdue gripe

For decades, I've used the MIDI graphic editor extensively for composition & arranging work. I've been wanting to vent/ask other long-time DP users about this for quite some time now. There was a major update, (I think v4 or v5) where graphic editing got more difficult and less speedy to use. It...
by stubbsonic
Mon Jan 16, 2012 2:43 pm
Forum: MOTU Theoretical Discussions, Gripes, Petitions & Off Topic
Topic: Apple's MainStage2 for $29 in the App Store - Killer Live?
Replies: 44
Views: 2779

Re: Apple's MainStage2 for $29 in the App Store - Killer Liv

Not sure what format the instruments are. They are kept inside the app's contents, with no indication of their type. I..e, they aren't components in the component folder. I mostly had been wanting to get Sculpture without having to bother with most of the other Logic stuff. I've been really fascinat...
by stubbsonic
Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:01 am
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: Slow Down Audio & Bring Down Pitch Like In The Analog Days
Replies: 31
Views: 3277

Re: Slow Down Audio & Bring Down Pitch Like In The Analog Da

I know this is a pretty old post (I'm just getting caught up from a long time away). It's worth mentioning that Audacity has good pitch/speed/tempo change processes. It's free and does a good job. It does allow for some transitions of speed over time with one of the processors. You might need to do ...
by stubbsonic
Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:18 am
Forum: MOTU Theoretical Discussions, Gripes, Petitions & Off Topic
Topic: Apple's MainStage2 for $29 in the App Store - Killer Live?
Replies: 44
Views: 2779

Re: Apple's MainStage2 for $29 in the App Store - Killer Liv

There are ways that it could be used in inter-application ways (soundflower, interapplication MIDI), but that would hit the CPU pretty hard and one would have latency (wait&see) issues. And we should have qualified that Mainstage 2 for $29 is a great deal if you don't already have Logic AND if y...
by stubbsonic
Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:17 am
Forum: MOTU Theoretical Discussions, Gripes, Petitions & Off Topic
Topic: Apple's MainStage2 for $29 in the App Store - Killer Live?
Replies: 44
Views: 2779

Re: Apple's MainStage2 for $29 in the App Store - Killer Liv

I don't think that limitation (one-patch-per-song) is correct. You CAN add mixer tracks each with a different instrument sound, and you can use various controls to mute tracks, map to velocity-ranges, map to key-ranges, etc. So in a My comment about it being cryptic is based on my relative experienc...
by stubbsonic
Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:19 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
Topic: Best Plugin to make you sound from the 30's?
Replies: 12
Views: 821

Re: Best Plugin to make you sound from the 30's?

+1 on izotope's free vinyl plug.

I've used for several "period" things. Works very well! Did we mention it's free?
by stubbsonic
Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:37 pm
Forum: MOTU Theoretical Discussions, Gripes, Petitions & Off Topic
Topic: Apple's MainStage2 for $29 in the App Store - Killer Live?
Replies: 44
Views: 2779

Re: Apple's MainStage2 for $29 in the App Store - Killer Liv

Classic! To clarify, here the significant differences between Mainstage2 (via AppStore) and the way DP can be used to host VI's & FX: 1. Mainstage 2 includes a more comprehensive array of VI's including EXS24 (a decent sampler instrument, with a decent library), Sculpture (a stunning acoustic mo...
by stubbsonic
Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:42 am
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
Topic: Need to scale tapped tempos, a tricky one....
Replies: 8
Views: 395

Re: Need to scale tapped tempos, a tricky one....

That worked!! The last step was to reset the meter to 4/4 and change the click back to quarter-notes, from half-notes (from something I tried before). What made me think it was messed up, was when I was doing the time scale, typing in 200% always showed a very weird number for the end time and lengt...
by stubbsonic
Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:51 am
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
Topic: Need to scale tapped tempos, a tricky one....
Replies: 8
Views: 395

Re: Need to scale tapped tempos, a tricky one....

Years ago, I googled "stubbsonic" (it is my registered tradename)-- and found Sean.
by stubbsonic
Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:54 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
Topic: Need to scale tapped tempos, a tricky one....
Replies: 8
Views: 395

Re: Need to scale tapped tempos, a tricky one....

Thanks! I will study it. In the past, when I've tried using any of the automatic functions for deriving tempo from a soundbite, it has been useless. A tutorial might help me make better use of those functions. I appreciate your response, especially given that my issue is pretty difficult to describe...
by stubbsonic
Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:24 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
Topic: Need to scale tapped tempos, a tricky one....
Replies: 8
Views: 395

Re: Need to scale tapped tempos, a tricky one....

The only thing I can think of right now is to print the click as MIDI to a track, then select all, then option-drag (drag a copy) all those downbeat note events to the upbeats. Run that track to my K2500R's sequencer, then play that back as a tap tempo back into DP. I'm hoping there won't be much dr...
by stubbsonic
Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:13 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
Topic: Need to scale tapped tempos, a tricky one....
Replies: 8
Views: 395

Need to scale tapped tempos, a tricky one....

I tapped a pretty complicated tempo (to sync to an audio track) and edited it so it was just so. Because the tempo was pretty tricky, I tapped it twice as slow-- (tapped half-notes). But I didn't know how to tell DP that I was tapping half-notes. Thinking I could figure out how to fix it later, I we...
by stubbsonic
Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:22 am
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: beams on 8th notes- too thin on Preview/PDF/Print
Replies: 25
Views: 2109

Re: beams on 8th notes- too thin on Preview/PDF/Print

Still a lingering issue with this problem... (6/30/11) With the native driver, staff lines are not visible, and 8th note beams are one pixel wide. With the generic postscript print driver, the beams are fine, but the staff lines are still so thin as to be barely visible. However, on a different prin...
by stubbsonic
Thu Nov 18, 2010 6:20 am
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: MIDI notes not sounding during selection or scrubbing
Replies: 9
Views: 551

Re: MIDI notes not sounding during selection or scrubbing

Ahhhh!!! Yes! That makes perfect sense.

I found this setting in the preferences. I changed it so new projects (and the current one) will render VI's in real time.

Thanks, Mess, everyone. I really appreciate it.