[Lmuse-user] Note/Event Velocity Values plus a few other things

[Kaya S. <kay...@gm...>]

Hi,

first of all I'd like to say hats-off to everyone working on open source 
audio production software! Having used a mixture of Steinberg Cubasis 
AV, Emagic Logic Audio, and Pro Tools previously I can definitely say 
that I'm impressed with how far Linux support has got and the power of 
the tools available; so have been playing around with Seq24, Rosegarden, 
Muse2, Sysexxer..... they're pretty awsome!


I'm running Fedora 17 32-bit non-PAE kernel running Muse version 2.0.1-1 
with Jackd and qjackctl; connected to an Emagic MT4 Midi interface and 
Novation Remote 25 controller keyboard. My sound sources are a Roland 
MC303 and Novation Nova laptop.


I have a few questions of things which I'm a little stuck on how to do:

first up MIDI note/event velocities.... I'm currently using the 'Piano 
Role' editor to input note events into the system for base and drums. I 
haven't however found anywhere to edit individual note velocities by 
value. There is a portion of the window which shows the velocities as bars:

http://muse-sequencer.org/index.php/Window_Reference_Guide

however, these bars are difficult to select and edit (especially on a 
12" screen using a track pad with no scroll). If I use the 'modify 
velocity' menu then I only get a percentage instead of the 'true' values 
0-127.

Is there anywhere I can just input the actual value??

At the same time which is weird is that if I 'modify velocity' to say 
40%, the next time I input a note in the piano role editor the velocity 
is at a really low level and not at 100% or whatever the default gets 
set to? 100 or whatever?? Again numerical values would be useful here.


In the drum editor mode the velocities don't seem to show up at all?? 
Though I think that I have seen that it is a bug while searching Google.


Also in the drum editor I'm currently using the Roland MC303 instrument 
program definition, and all works really well bar the grid and the 
actual values on the left don't seem to match up. If input something 
under 'kick drum' nothing is played - switching to the piano role I can 
see that it's on a note which has no sound assigned to it internally on 
the MC303. Of course moving it to the proper note works but it just 
means that I can't use the drum editor due to confusion. Left clicking 
the sound name in the drum editor does play the sound however; so is 
there anyway to align them?


Additionally the 'seek forward'/'seek backward'/'record' controls don't 
seem to function from MMC..... while running from command line, text 
pops up claiming "not yet implemented". It would be really great to get 
the transport controls of my Novation Remote working with Muse, though 
'play' and 'stop' do work.


Lastly, there seems to be a bug with MIDI clock and start/stop 
information getting sent together..... while running my Roland MC303 in 
sequencer mode, if set to 'slave mode' (listen to midi clock and 
start/stop events) I get clock input showing up on the MC303 but no 
starting or stopping of the sequencer??

In 'remote mode' start and stop works but the box is clocked 
internally.... this is kind of odd as checking the same thing using 
Seq24 all seems fine so I'm not sure where the issue lies??

--in both cases Muse has been instructed to send out MMC/clock and 
timecode data to the MC303.


Apart from these little issues I must say that I'm really impressed and 
having a lot of fun learning this new software. It's got a lot of 
potential and character and I'm hoping to start integrating it into a 
larger setup running with my Mackie DXB and other sound modules and 
synths. Just wish that there was support for MOTU audio interfaces on 
Linux but they don't seem to like the platform :-( I'm personally not a 
big fan of Apple after the switch from PowerPC processors to Intel and I 
don't like Windowz either.


Regards,


Kaya