I don’t know what it was, most likely I triggered it using a shortcut by accident. I work with keyswitches a lot, especially in the SINE player, which shows them very easily on the list of articulations on the right pane.
One thing I normally do if I start working on a MIDI I downloaded is to draw a C0 note all across the song, since usually C0 is sustain legato in OT instruments, unless it’s a very low instrument, in which case it’s a C6. Then I move from start to finish in the MIDI part and split that long note depending on the length of the notes in that specific section. So if I see a bunch of very short notes, that usually means a staccato, spiccato or pizzicato, and if they are long notes, usually it’s a sustain, etc.
So if I had the playhead in a specific time, I would move that keyswitch note up and down, and SINE player would show me which articulation was as soon as I moved the note, not even during playback, but as long as the playhead was touching that note, I would see the articulation update as soon as I moved it up or down.
At some point recently that stopped happening. If I moved the note, it wouldn’t move in SINE player, however, if I started playback, then I would see it move to the correct articulation. Initially I figured that the latest update to the SINE player had messed up something, but then I realized that I saw the same behavior in other engines like Opus, Musio, Kontakt, etc. And I don’t mean just keyswitches, some other things as well don’t work as they did. For example, if I had selected a note and I was moving it up and down, I would hear it being played the moment I did it, now I can’t.
So that made me think that I had accidentally pressed a shortcut, or clicked on something that made it change a preference that causes this to happen. I went up and down the preferences, paying special attention to the MIDI preferences, but I didn’t see anything there that gave me a hint.
In each track, the MIDI settings are the usual, the input set to Any and the output set to channel 1, so I don’t know where else to look.
I hope I explained this correctly. It’s difficult for me to even find a term to search for it online, because it’s not that MIDI stopped working. When I press the spacebar and it starts playing, all the MIDI information in the part gets sent to the instrument correctly, but if I’m stopped, it doesn’t. I know there’s probably a term for it that I don’t know, so if anyone knows, I will appreciate it.
