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Generating too many MIDI controls


Paul DeRocco

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I'm using the current Cakewalk. When I draw in the controller pane of the piano roll view, it seems to generate every single 7-bit value for the control, sometimes even generating duplicates, even if that translates into thousands of messages per second. This is insane. How do I limit the rate to something reasonable, like 200Hz? The few provided thin*.cal utilities are too stupid, since they're not based on time. Is there a setting for this somewhere?

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The PRV snap value doesn't seem to have any effect, and would be too coarse anyway.

It appears that Cakewalk limits the control rate to the tick rate, so a very steep change skips a lot of values but generates output on every tick. So at 120bpm I could attain a 192Hz limit if I reduce the ticks per quarter note to 96, but I think that's too coarse. I think I want the timing of percussive events to be more accurate than the spacing between controls. I'm now trying to solve it with a thinning .cal file of my own.

 

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If you already have entered controller events that are too bunched up, you can use the CAL script "Thin Controller Data.cal".  I use this all the time.

Hope this script is in your CAL scripts folder as defined in Preferences | File | Folder locations > Cal files

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