Hackey Trackey (MIDI Tracker)

[sai'ke]

Originally Posted by Hael.an

I have been messing around with customizing the key commands and all the missing commands are now available! Very grateful!

I am still unclear as to purpose the far left CC field and the meaning of its values. I know what CC's are but am not sure how that column relates to them.

Thank you again for HT!

First two columns indicate which CC effect you're automating. The next two are the value. Note that there are two CC modes. In one you get this view with the CCs all in one set of columns. In the second mode, you get a column per CC type (check enable CCs for channels > 0 in the options). In this mode, you can add CCs with CTRL + SHIFT + + followed by entering a numeric value. Depending on what you are doing, one mode might be preferable over the other.

Originally Posted by Andreas F

Hello sai'ke

Thanks a lot for this piece of software! It's fantastic! :-)

Kind regards
Andreas F

You're welcome

Originally Posted by Hael.an

When entering values for automation with HT the only value that shows up is 0 no matter which number or letter I enter. I am sure this is a simple setting i am missing. I am getting different values for other fields, it is only automation. Thank you as always!

Edit: I was able to enter different automation values while using helm so it seems it may be something related to partials (which is one of my absolute favorite sound sources by the way).

Huh, that's curious. Which parameter are you trying to modulate and how?

[stesmeg]

Heard about this a couple of years back but still haven't got round to trying it.
I'm going to install now and test it out.
I will most likely be lost though, as I've never used a tracker before.
Is there any tutorials about that would be handy? Even if it's not for this exact tracker but the workflow is similar it could help me wrap my head around the unorthodox workflow of a tracker.
Anyway thanks for your continued efforts on this.

[sai'ke]

Originally Posted by stesmeg

Heard about this a couple of years back but still haven't got round to trying it.
I'm going to install now and test it out.
I will most likely be lost though, as I've never used a tracker before.
Is there any tutorials about that would be handy? Even if it's not for this exact tracker but the workflow is similar it could help me wrap my head around the unorthodox workflow of a tracker.
Anyway thanks for your continued efforts on this.

It's on my to-do list to do a tutorial specifically for HT/Hackey Trackey Sample Playback, but it's been on there for a while

If you want a more tracker-ish experience, make sure you load the sample playback JSFX on the track where you are tracking.

Maybe someone else has a good suggestion.

[stesmeg]

I will certainly do that some amazingjsfx you have made. Thanks

[maitaketaki]

Hi Sai'ke,

Hackey Trackey works great for me. The only problem I am having is with the harmonizer. CTRL + Click does not inserting chords to the pattern. Sometimes it does, but only once and will stop doing it again after one chord is inserted. I checked to make sure track record is armed. Any other ideas?

Edit: I can get it to insert chords, but have to click the MIDI item in the transport each time I insert one, as if it loses focus.

[sai'ke]

Originally Posted by maitaketaki

Hi Sai'ke,

Hackey Trackey works great for me. The only problem I am having is with the harmonizer. CTRL + Click does not inserting chords to the pattern. Sometimes it does, but only once and will stop doing it again after one chord is inserted. I checked to make sure track record is armed. Any other ideas?

Edit: I can get it to insert chords, but have to click the MIDI item in the transport each time I insert one, as if it loses focus.

Thanks for the report. Should be fixed in 3.28!

[maitaketaki]

Originally Posted by sai'ke

Thanks for the report. Should be fixed in 3.28!

Thank you so much. You a kind soul to bless us all with your wild creations.

Edit: Holy crap that was a fast update. Works great now!

[sai'ke]

Originally Posted by maitaketaki

Thank you so much. You a kind soul to bless us all with your wild creations.

Edit: Holy crap that was a fast update. Works great now!

^^

For those using the companion sampler module, I added an auto-split feature. There's three different algorithms there. Depending on the material you have one might work better than the other. I may add more advanced algos (these are pretty simple) in the future, but for now it serves at least my needs.

[Hael.an]

Hello!

I am trying to understand live-recording into hackey trackey and am so far a little confused. When my track midi channel is set to all channels my keyboard inputs multiple notes and glitches out a bit. When i set it to midi channel 1 input seems to work well but not live-recording. When i click Rec at the bottom it switches my track midi setting to all channels again. I am using the track from global midi setting. Any help to get live-recording to work right would be appreciated. Thank you for HT!

[Nixon]

Hello Saike, I might have asked this before, but is there any way to obey or incorporate swing? Or is it supported and I haven't found it? Thank you for still working on this great tracker

[stesmeg]

Originally Posted by sai'ke

^^

For those using the companion sampler module, I added an auto-split feature. There's three different algorithms there. Depending on the material you have one might work better than the other. I may add more advanced algos (these are pretty simple) in the future, but for now it serves at least my needs.

Just using this now. Enjoying ut so far. Is there a way to adjust the volume in tge sampler of each clip. Velocity doesnt seem to work with this. Im in note mode for easier input

[stesmeg]

just realized that I was in the wrong cc lane so all good now.

[TonE]

Originally Posted by Nixon

... is there any way to obey or incorporate swing? Or is it supported and I haven't found it?

For swing I use "Grooves" of Reaper itself. When applied to an item, the notes placement in hackey trackey will update into multiple columns. Very flexible, you can transpose, shift separated columns if you want. Better than having all in same columns where you would not have those quick experimenting options.

[TonE]

Last changes in hackey trackey, show in change log no information. Anything important?

[sai'ke]

Originally Posted by TonE

Last changes in hackey trackey, show in change log no information. Anything important?

Strange. I did add changelog entries. Not sure why they didn't show up:

 * v3.34 (2024-06-16)
  + Small resolution checking fixup.
 * v3.33 (2024-06-16)
  + Issue warning when rows aren't an exact PPQ.
 * v3.32 (2024-06-15)
  + Fix issue with scrolling through options while no item is open.
 * v3.31 (2024-06-15)
  + Fix issue with uninitialized variable being hit when "stick info to bottom" is activated.
  + Fix issue with not rounding coordinates when toggling binary options.

Mostly small bug-fixes. Also added issuing a warning when the PPQ setting in reaper can cause issues on non 4/4 material (each row needs to be a multiple of the PPQ setting).

[TonE]

Thanks for the superquick reply. Bug fixes are always great, thanks a lot!

[TonE]

What, no posts since my last post? Time to change it.

Today it occured to me hackey trackey would love another novelty harmonization feature.
Assumption is you are editing non-drums in current item, thus melody, chords or bass.
Example:
melody, using midi ch1
bass, using midi ch2
chords, using midi ch3
All in same item / pattern.

Now holding any chord ( 2-5 notes for example ) would remap all pattern notes to this chord notes, keeping their octaves. Releasing the chord notes would return back to its previous original state. That's it.
Simple but powerful reharmonization feature hackey trackey would get for lots of real-time chords fun.

This feature would make each item not only a single pattern, but a pattern
template for any chord combinations.

There are other tricks similar results can be achieved (Midi Vocoder, lua-protoplug) but having a trackey solution could have its own benefits and fun. Without needing to setup anything else. Hold your notes, there you go.

[USR]

Hi, I've been trying Hackey Trackey to see if it could do basic tracking that I do in Renoise. So far it's great.

Is there any way that I can use Reaper's global keyboard shortcuts while I'm on HT window (or dock)?

I'd like to switch between HT and the native MIDI editor quickly. Currently I seem to need to click other areas outside of HT window to get the native key bindings to work.