RE: midi issues with Logic Pro
RE: midi issues with Logic Pro
- Subject: RE: midi issues with Logic Pro
- From: "Steve Schow" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:04:35 -0800
- Organization: Backstage Productions
AU's can't see or hear MTC?
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-----Original Message-----
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From: email@hidden
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[mailto:email@hidden] On Behalf Of Marc Poirier
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Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 9:09 AM
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To: Stefan Garr
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Cc: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: midi issues with Logic Pro
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Stefan Garr wrote:
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> There are 2 problems that the developer says are caused by
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limitations
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> of the AU spec and/or Logic's handling of it.
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> 1. BFD has a mode where it can auto start a drum loop with
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song start.
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> This doesn't work right. When I wrote to the developer, I got the
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> following response:
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> "The "sync issue" I hope that is troubling you is the
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auto-start/stop;
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> this is actually a limitation of AU - there is no way we can
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> guarantee correct detection of song start as AU's aren't actually
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> informed of song start like VST's, so our wrapper code has to
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> make an educated guess - we are starting to recommend AU
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> users that they use groove notes on their host sequencer timelines
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> to start BFD grooving."
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Hmmm, that's not true, is it? I thought it was established
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that a beat
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value of 0 corresponds to the start of a song, right?
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Moreoever, in either case, you still have to make an educated
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guess unless
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the user has started song playback from the beginning of the
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song. If
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playback begins at any other point, the best you can do is
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assume that
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there have been no time signature changes prior to that
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point. But if
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there have been, then there's no way for a plugin to know
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which bar you're
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at. This is true in AU and VST.
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Marc
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