Nigel Simmons

10 hours ago, msmcleod said:

@Nigel Simmons - One thing that could be the problems is your MIDI prepare buffer size.  If this is less than the negative delay, this could be the problem - e.g. a MIDI Prepare Buffer of 50ms, and a negative delay of 100ms will almost certainly result in the articulations not being sent out.

Try setting your prepare buffer to at least 25ms to 50ms larger than your largest negative delay - i.e. a negative delay of 100ms should have a MIDI prepare buffer of somewhere between 125ms and 150ms.  Note that this requirement only affects negative delays, not positive delays.

Also note that an excessively large MIDI prepare buffer will add a noticeable delay to the project starting after pressing play (i.e. setting it to 1000ms, which is a second, will add an extra second to the delay between pressing play and your project starting).

The MIDI prepare buffer is set ion Preferences->MIDI->Playback and Recording:

If this doesn't solve your problem, please send your problem project to @Jonathan Sasor.  Issues with negatively delayed articulations are incredibly difficult to reproduce, and even once we reproduce it can take hours of debugging to determine the root cause - so please try to delete as many tracks as you can to keep the project as simple as possible, whilst still reproducing the problem.

If you could also let us know what your MIDI prepare buffer size is, this will help to reproduce our end.

 

I increased the buffer size to 1000 and there's no delay before playback. It continues to play immediately. Not sure why this would be, but could be the problem. I've also noticed a note will sometimes play at the specified negative delay, but when the playhead reaches the note, it will trigger the note again (as if there are two notes, when there's just one). The problems I'm having are intermittent and change randomly, so it's hard to pin down exactly what the solution could be.

6 hours ago, Promidi said:

I tried a simple piano phrase and a staccato string phase on a second track with an articulation with a -300ms delay  on each track here and this played fine.
 

I guess the problem lies in switching between articulations with negative delays within the same track. Maybe it's just not possible.

5 hours ago, Amberwolf said:

If that's on the legacy.cakewalk.com site, you'll need to force your browser to view the pages as http, not https.  Don't know why that works, but it does.

Thanks, I did not know this.

I've tried everything. I'm guessing the feature is just buggy. I've tried to check the documentation and images are not displaying, neither on my computer nor on my phone. It's all very maddening.

I've experimented with this negative delay per articulation feature, and I cannot get it to work right. I'm trying to add negative delay in articulation maps for Cinematic Studio Strings that I've successfully worked with in the past.

1. The velocity of notes are incorrectly playing very quietly (even if velocity is at 127) during the first few notes of a phrase within a new articulation.

2. When a phrase is played within an articulation, the last note of the phrase isn't played.

3. New articulations aren't being triggered, or will trigger well beyond when they're supposed to.

Anyone else try to use this feature? Have you used it with any success?