Need help

down loaded reaktor 6. It is awesome. I did notice when I use the blocks the some times the notes get cut off when I use a midi device to impute notes. I use both maschine and a midi keyboard. It does not happen if a play a midi sequence inside maschine, only when I try to input notes with a midi device. Any ideas what would cause this?

 

might be cos Blocks are monophonic?
do they "cut off" when you're trying to play 2 or more notes at the same time?

 

Thanks for the reply. No I am not trying to play more than one more at a time. Just some times when I play a passage some notes get cut off. Very frustrating.

 

Hate to be a pain but anyone have any ideas why this is happening. It only happens when I use blocks in reaktor. Everything else works fine.

 

Post an audio demo?

 

can you be more specific - which Ensembles are you using?

sowari

 

No problem. It does not matter what ensemble I am playing in reaktor. It only happens when I use any block ensemble. If a play a passage using either machine or a midi keyboard, some of the notes get cut off. I can. It upload a file because if I record a midi pattern in machine, the midi event track fine. In other words maschine captures all the midi events. When I play the passage back using the midi file, it plays back perfectly. The second I play the keyboard or use the maschine pads notes get cut off. Some one suggested that it may be caused by playing two notes at once. This is not the case. I know that blocks are not poly. Any linear passage played using a midi input device causes some notes to drop out. Thanks for reading. Any help is appreciated.

 

It very much sounds like it's because blocks are monophonic. I suspect that you have a release time set on an envelope and even though your note has ended in machine, the release continues to decay past the gate off. Whenever a new note plays, however, the envelope generator is re-triggered cutting off the decaying note that was just playing.

 

How can I test your theory?

 

Hey tekno. Quick question. It seems that when I use blocks it sucks up a lot of CPU could that be the issue? It seems like when I lower the sample rate the issue is not as bad.

 

What does the Reaktor CPU meter say? In any case, if you lower the sample rate and the problem goes away, it's probably not that notes are cutting off, rather, Reaktor is just not processing. Try increasing your soundcard buffer size to increase latency (and reduce CPU load). If the problem then goes away at high sample rates, then you know that CPU comsumption is most likely your problem.

Also try the blocks ensemble in a very simple project where it's the only sound.

For a number of reasons, blocks are not very CPU friendly. You might have to freeze your blocks parts in order to use them.

 

I had the same problem when playing legato with Blocks ensembles from a MIDI keyboard. About 5% of notes do not sound. I also have an AKAI EWI. When I play legato with the EWI only the first note sounds and none of the subsequent ones. The cause appears to be a bug somewhere in the 'Note In' block. Cutting the macro that generates Pitch and Gate from the Monark instrument and pasting it into the Note In block fixes the problem.

 

I am having this same problem! I play an AKAI EWI 5000 and the Note-In block only registers the first note input into Blocks and then the red meter goes silent and the VCA cuts off. With EWI you control the volume via the cutoff frequency with MIDI Breath. Then it is nice to add some attack and release with the ADSR linked to VCA.

What the heck is wrong with the Note-In Block?

Can someone please describe how to accomplish what the user above came up with as a solution: "
Cutting the macro that generates Pitch and Gate from the Monark instrument and pasting it into the Note In block fixes the problem." I don't know where to look in order to achieve this because I am new to Reaktor. Thanks.