Step Recording Issue

[Ricebug]

Yeah, I'm not too happy with 'Half-Baked'; it was given to me when my preferred name was taken.

Anyway... my age and arthritis sorta force me to go slow, so the speed is not the issue. I have an old Amiga MIDI program (Bars&PipesPro) that works flawlessly in step-record mode. Unfortunately, it won't recognize USB keyboards, so I'm being forced out of the hobby.

I really don't want to spend $80 upgrading to the newer version of NC, just to find out the same problem still exists.

Guess I'll go to eBay and look for an old-school MIDI-only keyboard.

Thanks for the help, at any rate.

[Reinhold H.]

We have been doing a review of step-time-recording and I believe that we found the issue finally. It will come with the next update of Composer 4.

Reinhold

[dj]

Hi, Reinhold:


Happy New Year.


Good to hear that things are progressing on Composer in this upside down world.


All the best.


David

[Reinhold H.]

David,

Thanks, same new years greetings. Yes, I agree the world right now is kind of upside down.

Regarding the step-time-recording there have been a few issues which even have interfered:

• step-time-recording is only possible when the sound system is up and the external midi input is possible. But there was no clear indication to the user. So, in case the sound system is not up after startup simply no note entry is possible. This is very confusing.
• an issue in the correct note cursor location in the score causes a dependancy on the zooming and eventually added a little rest. This has a dramatic consequence because note entry needs to start all over again
• and finally, we added the requirement that a new empty measure gets added when the last measure is reached

We have the update 4.0.3 almost ready but waiting for the final Wine-7.0 release which is required for macOS PCs with Apple M1 processor (new ) and Chromebooks (new ). Hopefully we can get 4.0.3 out in the next weeks.

Reinhold