On Mar 4, 2005, at 1:02 PM, Harold Owen wrote:
Christopher Smith writes:
I just lost 20 minutes on a foolish problem.
I am writing accompaniments to choral arrangements this week, and I tried to play back a file as a test for when the choir director is coming over. I don't use play back very often, but this was a special case. Everything was fine (or as fine as can be expected) until the last seven measures of one work, when it inexplicably started playing back in swing!
I checked the Human Playback controls in the Playback window, I even ran the Human Playback plugin to see if I could remove something, I checked the MIDI tool, as this used to be the way to accomplish swing playback, I set Rhythm to every percentage of the original I could imagine, still nothing.
Then I saw the "Slower" staff marking over the seventh last measure. Could I have edited another marking to create that one? I checked the playback on the expression, and sure enough, it was set to play back as "Swing." I set it to None, and all was well.
ARRGHHH!
It just goes to show, practise safe staff expressions, everyone, or some unknown bug may infect you with strange symptoms...
Dear Christopher,
I've noticed that when I use the Apply Human Playback plugin there is always an expression added at the beginning that is set to "Swing" for playback but the setting is zero (unless you had chosen "Jazz" as the playback option). The handle shows up, on the screen. I often use it for other MIDI settings (such as CC-1 when I'm using GPO). Maybe that expression shows up in your file where the "swing" begins, but this time with a setting other than zero.
Go figure!
Yes, I saw it there after I tried the Human Playback plugin, but removed it when I noticed it had no effect. Now that I know what caused the problem, it WOULD have had effect if it had come AFTER the Slower expression (which was on the 3rd beat of that measure.) The "swing" setting of the Slower expression was cancelling out the "no swing", but two beats later.
Ah, it's all so clear when you know. It's when you DON'T know that it kills...
Christopher
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