Logical Editor - how to shorten repeated notes (with LE macro)

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Googled, searched in the forum, can’t find (any link would help me):

How to make LE find repeated notes,
then shorten until condition is repeated “-8 ticks”
Would help my work a lot, any trick is appreciated as repeated notes aren’t played, rather lost on different VSTInstruments (that we know long time ago… but felt to solve this with macro maybe)
(I can do is with manual selection and overlap/scale legato (-) slider).

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From the C14 manual:
Deleting Overlaps
You can delete overlaps of notes that have the same or different pitches. This is useful if your
MIDI instruments cannot handle overlapping events.
PROCEDURE

  1. Select the note events.
  2. Do one of the following:
    ● Select MIDI > Functions > Delete Overlaps (mono).
    ● Select MIDI > Functions > Delete Overlaps (poly).
    RESULT
    The overlapping MIDI notes are shortened, so that no note begins before another ends.
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Hi @BobUpstairs ! I appreciate your help, thank you.
I know this function (I need the Delete Overlaps Mono), but that not 100% what I need. Actually I need to -8ticks the repeated notes only (with -8 the repetitions are working fine). Currently selecting repeated, moving slider, selecting next place… etc…

However regardless of my Overlap slider is on -8Ticks, executing Delete Overlaps (mono) doesn’t do the hard work for me, need to select the repeating parts, all bars, one by one and playing with the sliders.

Can you give me a hint what am I missing? :slight_smile:

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When you say ‘repeated notes’ you mean the overlaps, correct? And they are not all the same pitch?

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Overlaps are needed for differential (non-repeating) notes for legato, but repeated are often muted if they are too close (so I need to “-“ minus/shorten them a little bit), and Cubase is so smart for such things, but I can’t figure out this one.

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That’s a tough one to explain to software. “Select notes that are long enough to intrude on the following note.” Unless all the notes are the same length (8th, 16th) and quantized. Then you could select everything longer than ‘x’ clicks.

I do run into that with some patches and usually just end up shortening every note in the range or manually shortening the problems.
I have a macro build that randomizes the start time by a few clicks and the shortens them all by a few. It works rather like a ‘humanizing’ function for step added things.

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@BobUpstairs ! you are right, however I hoped I can build a logical macro like:
“select if followed by the same note” (we no need to care about lenght, just find if a C4 is followed by an other C4, etc… “repeated”. As soon the last one is followed anything else hight (e.g. C#4) condition is out of scope and search should look for next possible repeat-places.

I have problem with symphonic sounds if repeat is just “quantized” / de-ovelapped.

Thank you for thinking with me on it!

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I’m not much of a programmer… my brain starts to overheat quickly!

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