Weird Reason Chord behaviour

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graeme75
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Joined: 19 May 2015

03 Jul 2020

Hi all can anyone help with this please? Firstly I tried to attach a screenshot to make it easier to explain but kept getting http error

I have noticed 2 issues when working with chords in the sequencer
I have a block of chords C/G/Em/Em7. They are in the sequencer and each chord is 1 bar long.

1)When I play from the beginning the 1st chord never plays. I've checked the MIDI and they are starting at the correct place. However if you loop the 4 bars it will play everytime apart from the 1st time? If I put in some blank space prior to the 1st chord , again it will play with no problems.

2) If I join all the clips together (ctrl-J) when it plays back between Em and Em7 all that is heard is the extra note .The 3 identical notes in Em and Em7 are each 1 bar long not 2 bars, so I thought they would be triggered at the start of Em7

Any help would be greatly appreciated?

Cheers
Graeme

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Billy+
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04 Jul 2020

graeme75 wrote:
03 Jul 2020
Hi all can anyone help with this please? Firstly I tried to attach a screenshot to make it easier to explain but kept getting http error

I have noticed 2 issues when working with chords in the sequencer
I have a block of chords C/G/Em/Em7. They are in the sequencer and each chord is 1 bar long.

1)When I play from the beginning the 1st chord never plays. I've checked the MIDI and they are starting at the correct place. However if you loop the 4 bars it will play everytime apart from the 1st time? If I put in some blank space prior to the 1st chord , again it will play with no problems.

2) If I join all the clips together (ctrl-J) when it plays back between Em and Em7 all that is heard is the extra note .The 3 identical notes in Em and Em7 are each 1 bar long not 2 bars, so I thought they would be triggered at the start of Em7

Any help would be greatly appreciated?

Cheers
Graeme
This is fairly standard behaviour in all fairness if you're using the chords & scales device. The simple solution if to shorten the note you're feeding it or increase the loop markers, I personally shorten the note start & end then correct them after I bounce the midi to a track.

Hope this helps.

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Creativemind
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04 Jul 2020

Billy wrote:
04 Jul 2020
graeme75 wrote:
03 Jul 2020
Hi all can anyone help with this please? Firstly I tried to attach a screenshot to make it easier to explain but kept getting http error

I have noticed 2 issues when working with chords in the sequencer
I have a block of chords C/G/Em/Em7. They are in the sequencer and each chord is 1 bar long.

1)When I play from the beginning the 1st chord never plays. I've checked the MIDI and they are starting at the correct place. However if you loop the 4 bars it will play everytime apart from the 1st time? If I put in some blank space prior to the 1st chord , again it will play with no problems.

2) If I join all the clips together (ctrl-J) when it plays back between Em and Em7 all that is heard is the extra note .The 3 identical notes in Em and Em7 are each 1 bar long not 2 bars, so I thought they would be triggered at the start of Em7

Any help would be greatly appreciated?

Cheers
Graeme
This is fairly standard behaviour in all fairness if you're using the chords & scales device. The simple solution if to shorten the note you're feeding it or increase the loop markers, I personally shorten the note start & end then correct them after I bounce the midi to a track.

Hope this helps.
They never said Scales & Chords unless I missed something.

I've had a similar issue before with the first note of a loop not triggering. I will attach a video I put on You Tube at the time. Just double check by doing ctrl A (select all within the clip) and quantizing on a 1/16th to be sure you are definitely snapped to the grid correctly.



I can't remember how the issue was resolved. I think it's a bug and I may have just deleted the note and re-added it or something like that and it resolved itself.

EDIT - Just took ages to find but found my thread on it:-

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7503900&p=360343&si ... 7c#p360343
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