Hi,
A long-standing bug in recording and playback of MIDI is present in Studio One 4-7, and I am wondering if any current users of SP8 could please report if it is still around in 8?
Here are the steps to recreate, and it is 100% reproducible, at least on Sequential and Arturia outboard synthesizers:
1. Create a new project, setting up your external synth as an Instrument and as a Keyboard in the External Devices config.
2. Add one midi track that takes all MIDI inputs and outputs to your synth.
3. Make sure the synth has LOCAL OFF set.
4. Turn on the MIDI monitor so you can capture and view Program Change messages and incoming note messages.
5. Record this sequence of MIDI: basically one Program Change (PC) message (to a new preset), then a sequence of MIDI notes, then repeat. Do as many as you want, but at a minimum, 3 times like this: PC, notes, PC, notes, PC, notes...
Result:
1. The MIDI monitor will have captured all the notes and all the PC messages. (OK)
2. The recorded clip will play back only the 1st and 3rd PC message. No matter how many times you did the sequence, that 2nd PC message is never recorded or played back. (Expected result is it IS recorded and played back)
I've noticed other flakiness in MIDI recording as well but this is the only thing I can pin down as 100% reproducible. It does also have issues recording knob movements as MIDI (like resonance filter sweeps)... CCs seems to work fine but NRPNs do not work right at all.
I've sent this report to Presonus before but I've not heard much back from them.
I really hope this has been fixed because it would be nice to be able to get back off of Cubase. S1 was much easier to use ... but when I started getting into hardware synths, this became a deal breaker for me. I remember doing this in DOS Cakewalk back in the 1990s... it is hard to believe that a modern DAW would still have trouble sequencing external MIDI gear.
Thanks in advance...
A long-standing bug in recording and playback of MIDI is present in Studio One 4-7, and I am wondering if any current users of SP8 could please report if it is still around in 8?
Here are the steps to recreate, and it is 100% reproducible, at least on Sequential and Arturia outboard synthesizers:
1. Create a new project, setting up your external synth as an Instrument and as a Keyboard in the External Devices config.
2. Add one midi track that takes all MIDI inputs and outputs to your synth.
3. Make sure the synth has LOCAL OFF set.
4. Turn on the MIDI monitor so you can capture and view Program Change messages and incoming note messages.
5. Record this sequence of MIDI: basically one Program Change (PC) message (to a new preset), then a sequence of MIDI notes, then repeat. Do as many as you want, but at a minimum, 3 times like this: PC, notes, PC, notes, PC, notes...
Result:
1. The MIDI monitor will have captured all the notes and all the PC messages. (OK)
2. The recorded clip will play back only the 1st and 3rd PC message. No matter how many times you did the sequence, that 2nd PC message is never recorded or played back. (Expected result is it IS recorded and played back)
I've noticed other flakiness in MIDI recording as well but this is the only thing I can pin down as 100% reproducible. It does also have issues recording knob movements as MIDI (like resonance filter sweeps)... CCs seems to work fine but NRPNs do not work right at all.
I've sent this report to Presonus before but I've not heard much back from them.
I really hope this has been fixed because it would be nice to be able to get back off of Cubase. S1 was much easier to use ... but when I started getting into hardware synths, this became a deal breaker for me. I remember doing this in DOS Cakewalk back in the 1990s... it is hard to believe that a modern DAW would still have trouble sequencing external MIDI gear.
Thanks in advance...
