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(Message started by: neilscothern on Sep 7^th, 2008, 8:08am)

Title: can Midiox help me? note durations dm5.
Post by neilscothern on Sep 7^th, 2008, 8:08am

Hi below is a post from the propellerheads forum. I am wondering if - as midipipe helped this mac user - midiox can help me.

I just bought the Alesis DM5 kit and had a trigger problem with the NN-XT. The NN-XT would only trigger randomly even though the MIDI and "Note On" lights would light up with every hit. I spent hours trying to figure out the problem and now have an easy solution. The reason it triggers a random sample is because the DM5 note duration is not long enough for the NN-XT to to play the sample but is just long enough for you to see midi activity. The super simple solution for this is to download a free MIDI utility program called MIDIPipe. MIDIPipe is Mac OSX only but I'm sure there is a similar Windows MIDI utility program. You can use this program to add a 10ms duration to the note and now my electronic drum set works perfectly!

MIDIPipe: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10541

thanks in advance

Title: Re: can Midiox help me? note durations dm5.
Post by Peter L Jones on Sep 7^th, 2008, 5:26pm

Short answer: yes.

Longer answer: you need to set up a mapping where the input message is mapped to itself if it's a Note Off (or Note On velocity zero) but set the "delay" option to 10ms or whatever.

Title: Re: can Midiox help me? note durations dm5.
Post by neilscothern on Sep 8^th, 2008, 4:14pm

Thanks for the answer.

Pretty new at midiox so is the below correct?

Midi map
DATA MAP
Ch Message V1Min V1Max V2Min V2Max C|Ch Message V1Min V1Max V2Min V2Max
* NoteOn * * 0 0 | * * * * 0 0
* NoteOff * * * * | * * * * * *
Wait for complete NRPN: Off, NRPN Data Incr: Off, Send Full NRPN: Off
Map is: On, PC Keyboard Mapping: Off

Sorry for perhaps a dumb question.

Neil.

Title: Re: can Midiox help me? note durations dm5.
Post by Peter L Jones on Sep 9^th, 2008, 3:59am

Looks fine, assuming you've set the delays, too (which don't show there). Also, on the NoteOn, you could use -1 in the Set Output to side, too, for velocity (just to emphasise you're not changing it :)).