How to add random 1/8 length notes to my existing 1/16 logical editor preset

Cubase
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Hi,
I currently have the following logical editor preset that randomises note length up to a duration of 1/16. To use this it requires first inputting a series of straight 16ths.

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I would now like to update this to include 1/8th length notes, however if I simply change the maximum length to 254 (from 127) I have overlapping notes, ie:

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Ignore the fact they’re on different notes, I’ve moved them up to show the overlap. In this example I would like the second red note (ie, on the 5 to be removed so there’s no overlap. In fact, in this example the 3 would stay, the 4 would be removed and the 5 would stay.)

Also, just to complicate matters, I would like to be able to specify somehow the likelihood of the 1/8th. This can be fixed in the preset, I understand it can’t be changed in realtime.

Thanks.

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I’m not at Cubase so can’t be too specific. But instead of setting the Length directly, you can also set it to change relative to the current value. So, for example, you want to tell it to randomly change the Length between -20 & -2 Ticks from its current value.

Also multiplying provides you a different way to adjust the Length from addition/subtraction.

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Thanks for this, I might update my original 1/16 preset accordingly. It looks like a much cleaner approach.

However, that wont solve the overlapping note issue I don’t think.

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Well if you start off without overlapping Notes and you shorten them, either by subtracting from their length or by multiplying by a number less than 1.0, the resulting Notes shouldn’t overlap because they get shorter not longer.

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Yes, true.
However, if I start with say 8 8ths and shorten to 16ths, I then have 8 16ths when instead it should be 16 (or some random combination inbetween).

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I don’t understand what you mean by this - why should it be 16?

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As I showed in the first screenshot, the current logical editor randomises note length on 16ths.
This is working very well, however I want to add in the occassional 8th (say 10-20% of the time).

Therefore, there are two extremes of the logical editor calculation:

  1. 16 16th notes at varying lengths (all of which must obviously be under 1/16th to avoid overlaps)
  2. 8 8th notes at varying lengths (again, all of which need to be at or under 1/8).

Ideally I’d like the output to be 20% #1 and 80% #2, however at this stage I’m happy with 50%.
The 16th focus will be phase 2.