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Old 01-05-2013, 03:44 PM   #37
ivansc
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I'm off to France and no internet for a few weeks so here is one for you to discuss.

Bit of a niche situation but still relevant.

IF Reaper were set up to be able to read the resolution of an incoming MIDI file or "item" and ask whether or not it should change the project timebase to that value, we would have caught up with just about every other sequenceing software I have ever used in the last twenty odd years.
Is this too much to ask?

A classic example of this is the old Roland MIDI boxes, which by the time the sound canvas standard came around were running at a fixed rate of 192 resolution.
One of the biggest problems this caused initially was with early sequencers expecting to find different res and not being able to adjust to Rolands "Standard".
But of course that was initially solved by offering a choice (menu at loading) of res and eventually everything adapted automatically in one direction or the other.

Be nice if Reaper could "see" a MIDI item recorded at a different tempo and resolution and just "do the math" on import.

Anyone else tired of importing MIDI into a 120bpm project and seeing the drum part sliding slowly but surely backwards or forwards out of synch because of either tempo mismatch or resolution mismatch?
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