Midi clips which might (or might not) play

[John_E]

Hi Paul - or anyone else who can help - is Midi going through some re-write at the moment?

I’ve no experience of Midi but a few weeks ago I got talked into helping a Mixbus user track down a problem (which I didn’t, because I couldn’t reproduce it…) but along the way I produced this simple Midi session and I was surprised to realise that Ardour and Mixbus both replay the Midi differently - and even different versions of Mixbus replay it differently:-

At first I concluded that it was all just a bit cr*p but this morning something happened which got me wondering… I’d rebuilt Mixbus from yesterday’s git and when I loaded the above session, the midi background colour was black and some of the clips were drawn bold while others were at half brightness. And I suddenly realised that the clips I could hear were the bold ones -so presumably the others were in some non-playable state?

BUT… after closing the session and re-opening it, the bold clips / black bg etc are all gone and I’m back to seeing it as above. So can anyone suggest how I could get back to the view from this morning? Or is this still work in progress?

[ccaudle (Chris)]

@John_E

I’d rebuilt Mixbus from yesterday’s git

Look at the git logs, assuming you mean the main branch and not one of the tagged releases, there is a lot of churn right now, especially around pianoroll and cue editor.

[John_E]

Yes, I built from ‘mixbus/master’. FWIW Harrison’s Nathan (over on the MB forum) just told me that the brightness of a midi note isn’t an indication whether it’ll be audible or not - it’s (apparently…) governed by the note’s velocity?