FR: Option to include Track Delay in the recorded MIDI

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For example:

  • You have a track with -500 track delay.
  • You record something perfectly on a grid, with a metronome.

Result:

  • When you play a track, it’s no longer perfectly quantized, but instead it’s played 500ms earlier, because of the track delay. Now you have to spend time to manually align it with a grid again.

Suggestion:

  • Make an option to include track delay to the recorded MIDI.
    • How I see it working: If that option is active, right after you stopped recording, all recorded MIDI should be shifted by the inverted amount of milliseconds specified in the respective track (Position += TrackDelay * -1).

Why?
Every professional composer uses negative track delay to counter pre-attack delays of various sample libraries. This feature can significantly reduce MIDI editing time for those of us, who mainly record notes with a MIDI keyboard.

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This suggestion makes no sense. Just don’t apply a delay to the playback of the track in the first place and you won’t have a problem.

Applying any value of delay to a track will make it play back earlier or later. That’s the point of it.

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Your misunderstanding of the very simple idea makes no sence. Of course I will use negative track delay, because it’s very difficult to work without it.

I have 1000 tracks, all are different Kontakt , Abbey Road, EastWest, Engine2 libraries with different articulations and different pre-attack delays. So no, I will continue to use delay, thank you for the suggestion.

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