PT7 - "Play MIDI notes when editing" - trim tool

[jeremyroberts]

Can someone confirm this?

PT7 - "Play MIDI notes when editing" pref enabled - if using the trim tool, it does not sound the midi event.

In PT6, any tool (grabber or trim or pencil) would sound a midi note. Since 7.0, the trimmer no longer sounds the note (the grabber does).

Is this a feature or a bug? Can someone confirm this behavior - and can someone from Digi comment on the "feature vs. bug" status?

Thanks...

[jeremyroberts]

bump

Doesn't anyone miss this? Wouldn't it be nice to hear the midi notes youre editing no matter what tool you are using? Can someone from Digi tell me why this feature was removed for PT7?

Thanks!

[JGuth]

I don't recall the trim tool ever sounding the note. What I would like would be for tabbing onto a note to sound it-
sort of like granular scrubbing. A fabulous feature for finding clinkers in busy tracks.

[jeremyroberts]

Yeah, trim tool always sounded midi notes... in 6.x (and some people didn't like this, since it would trigger the enitre duration of the note once pressed -- I got used to it. Trim should sound the note as long as the trim tool is engaged on the note being edited.

And this inspired me to post the "what I miss about Studio Vision" in another thread... We really need MIDI Scrub. Every el-cheapo midi sequencer has it - is it a difficult thing to code or implement? Who decides the featureset? What kind of beer do you like?

[One Track Music]

I don't recall the trim tool ever sounding the note.

Nor me. Did I miss something?

[JGuth]

I just tried it in PT 6.9 grabber plays note, trimmer does not. I wish notes would always play when selected with all tools or by tabbing.

[relaxo]

Yes! Notes should play with every change, or at least have the option to, especially when transposing notes and changing velocity. I want to hear what it sounds like without having to swing down and click on the note after each volume change, which is tedious if you program all day.

I do a lot of live drum sample triggering, and I need to hear every time I move it to a new velocity (128 steps) just like I need to hear each note as I move it higher and lower in pitch. What's the difference, new note pich or new note volume...you usually need to hear it!

Why? Especially with percussion samples, there is a totally different sample being triggered with each volume step, sometimes even 128 different velocity sample audio files per note, each with a different attack sound. Imagine going down and clicking on the note just to audition each sample assigned to each velocity.

#1 #1 #1 Digi needs to make PT editing bearable. Everything in PT editing is designed to slow you down like auditioning velocity changes and switching between notes view and velocity view 5 or 10 times a minute when editing. Insane!

In PT, why not give us a -Logical- "tools pop selector" up if we press a key?

Scott