I'd like the ability to undo hitting the record button. I find myself accidentally pressing it occasionally, and then you loose any previous recording.
Obviously you tend to save masterpieces, but I often just sketch a melody so that I can interactively tweak my piano sounds to the playback - so loosing it all is a pain.
Anybody else find that?
A related request: record the pedal positions as they are when record is activated.
Right now, if you held a pedal down before you hit record, the pedal position isn't recorded, leading to incorrect playback (until you move the pedal again). If often find myself doing that.
I'd like the ability to undo hitting the record button.
Undo would be ideal, but another alternative is to use the 'Press record then press play' method of activating recording. This way you can't accidentally start recording.
A related request: record the pedal positions as they are when record is activated.
Right now, if you held a pedal down before you hit record, the pedal position isn't recorded, leading to incorrect playback (until you move the pedal again). If often find myself doing that.
Sorry to say, this is not the fault of Pianoteq software, but rather it is an artifact of the MIDI protocol created jointly by Yamaha, Roland and Korg back in about 1982.
You see, when you hold down a pedal, the MIDI protocol does not "see" anything happen. This is because the pressing and release of any pedal constitutes a Pedal Down message (often 127) in, say, CC #64 -- or it sees a Pedal Up message, which is usually a CC value of 0.
So, anyone's act of first holding down a pedal (or pressing a note) before hitting the Record button ... registers absolutely nothing, until that note is released or otherwise changed.
This is the reason that MIDI files are so small (often on the order of 10k to about 200k); MIDI only captures the key presses, pedal presses and releases. On the other hand, we humans think of pressing the pedal as the act of holding down a key or pedal.
In contrast to the small size of MIDI files, an audio file such as a .wav takes up 10MB of space per minute of stereo music sampled at 44.1k per second in 16-bit format.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Joe
Sorry to say, this is not the fault of Pianoteq software, but rather it is an artifact of the MIDI protocol created jointly by Yamaha, Roland and Korg back in about 1982.
It's not a problem for a programmer (I'm one). All you do is keep track of the most recent pedal position (or any MIDI controller in general) - Pianoteq of course already does this as it needs to know the pedal values to play each note correctly. Then when recording starts, it just has to write all the current values at the start of the recording.