Sometimes notes won't play in successive clips

andrewthomas100 · Post by **andrewthomas100** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:28 pm

I surely can't be the only person who has noticed this apparent bug in Mixcraft 5 (and 4). Sometimes when two clips are next to each other, notes in the second clip will not play. Here is a project file which shows the problem:

http://www.ipod.org.uk/Bug.rar

In this example, the second clip does not play, so the sound just fades over the second clip. (All I did to create this was to copy the first clip and paste it again - nothing special, but the second clip won't play!)

In the next example, I put a tiny gap in between the two clips so the second clip now plays OK (this is the only way I can fix it):

http://www.ipod.org.uk/OK.rar

Surely I am not the only one to have noticed this serious bug? Is my system screwed-up?

Thanks a lot,

Andrew Thomas.

Raidx · Post by **Raidx** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:40 pm

same thing happens when i play your file on my mixcraft... so no, you are not crazy and your system should be ok

andrewthomas100 · Post by **andrewthomas100** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:58 pm

Thanks! I've noticed this for ages and just thought "It must be me". I can't imagine how this bug has slipped through for so long.

andrewthomas100 · Post by **andrewthomas100** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 3:42 am

It seems to me that if two notes are "touching" each other (i.e., next to each other, but not overlapping) over the join in successive clips then the second note does not play. This seems like a quite extraordinary bug!

Raidx · Post by **Raidx** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:31 am

Any explanation for that bug yet??

andrewthomas100 · Post by **andrewthomas100** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:50 pm

No, which is strange. It seems like a huge bug, but no one seems to notice.

It would be nice if the guys at Mixcraft would acknowledge the bug. This is a big deal.

cypher79 · Post by **cypher79** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:21 pm

yeah ive noticed this too

i got around it by zooming right in on the piano roll and making a tiny gap between the notes

andrewthomas100 · Post by **andrewthomas100** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:08 pm

Yeah, I do that too. It's annoying, though. Really shouldn't have to do that. I'm fed up with it.

Come on, Mixcraft guys. Acknowledge the bug!

Glaw · Post by **Glaw** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:51 am

I'm glad i found people with the same problem as me. Too bad there's no answer from the Acoustica team, but i would really like this to be fixed in MC6! It's really annoying.

I use a lot of copy-paste with my clips, mainly when i create drum tracks, so i always have to zoom in and make a tiny gap as you guys said.

YouTube · Post by **Acoustica Greg** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:16 am

Hi,

I'm guessing that this has to do with a "note off" MIDI command overriding the "note on" command from the next clip. We'll look into this, thanks for reporting it!

Greg

YouTube · Post by **Acoustica Greg** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:28 am

Hi,

I just tried to duplicate this problem and I wasn't able to do it. How are you guys reproducing this? I made an instrument clip with a couple of whole notes, then copied the clip. That seems to work fine.

Are the clips overlapping slightly? If they are overlapping, the "note off" from the first clip will turn off the "note on" at the beginning of the second clip.

Greg

andrewthomas100 · Post by **andrewthomas100** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:24 pm

Hi Greg, Here is another project file which has two whole-note instrument clips (like you tried). The second clip does not play:

http://www.ipod.org.uk/broken.rar

No, the clips are not overlapping at all. They are just touching.

YouTube · Post by **Acoustica Greg** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:27 pm

Hi,

Yes, I can reproduce the problem with your clips in that one project, but I can't reproduce it if I try on my own. How were those clips created? If you try to reproduce those clips in Mixcraft 5.2 build 152, does the same thing happen?

Greg

andrewthomas100 · Post by **andrewthomas100** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:31 pm

I haven't got 5.2, only 5.1. Do you want me to try 5.2?

I didn't do anything strange to record those clips. I just recorded one bar and copied it "Snap to measure".

Thanks a lot for looking at it.

Post by **Acoustica Eric** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:39 pm

Yes please update to the latest build.

I opened your project and noticed that if I move the second clip away and then put it back exactly where it was, it works.
You can do this by setting snap to 1/16
So, I don't need a tiny gap, just move it away and back again.