[ChristianKeymaster]

Glad to know it worked! Thanks for your feedback.

[ChristianKeymaster]

Thanks for that AB! I will happily compile a list of experiences with working Midi Interfaces for the Zaquencer installation. I´ll add them as a sticky once a few have been posted. Please everyone keep posting to this thread here the model of Midi Interfaces that worked and the ones that didn´t work for you.

I´ll go next.

Worked: M-Audio Midi Sport Uno USB
Didn´t work: RME Fireface 400, MidiTech Midilink Mini

[ChristianKeymaster]

The only thing I could imagine right now is if there was a very high note being accidentally generated but no note off following. Do you have some hints how this happened? Like when using a lot of chords, or the arpeggiator etc.? It would be great if you could reproduce this behaviour or send some patterns/global settings as .syx to support@zaqaudio.com. I will be looking into it here as well.

[ChristianKeymaster]

Can you please go into more detail how you envision that? I´m afraid I can´t imagine much under the term “Per Note” Transpose. Are you aware that the 4 tracks can be transposed individually? Might that help get the desired result?

[ChristianKeymaster]

Thanks for sharing your feature request!
Unfortunately at the moment it´s not possible to increase the resolution of the Note Delay feature. It corresponds to the internal time resolution of the Zaquencer and this can´t be changed easily (or even at all).

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi Supervillain,
thanks for your post, and happy to hear that the issue has been resolved!

[ChristianKeymaster]

Happy to hear that it works now.
Thanks for the update and happy Zaquencing!

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi Jay,
I´m happy to help. Here´s a short checklist again what you have to do to create a drumtrack and make it play:

- set track´s trackmode to “drum” in Global Menu
- assign track´s Midi Channel and Output A/B in Global Menu
- assign track´s Drum Notes in Global Menu (by holding the track button on the top right)
- unmute the track in Mixer Menu
- go to Inst Select Menu, select the instruments (2 button rows) and create notes by turning the steps´ encoders

Once you´ve made all these adjustments and it still doesn´t work, you can do the following:
- check the track´s Note Mute, Length, Velocity, and Step Skip prameters. These are still active in drum mode and could prevent generations of valid notes.
- check if the output LEDs A/B are blinking when the sequence is playing. This will show you if Midi Notes are being generated and sent
- hook up a Midi monitor software to the BCRs Midi Out, and look at the note data, making sure it has the correct notes (the ones that your drummachine expects)

Can you please clarify what you mean by “trigger the drum machines playing via midi”. Is this without the Zaquencer, when a Midi Keyboard or DAW is connected directly to the drummachine?

[ChristianKeymaster]

Great to hear! Thanks for letting us know.

Just for the sake of completeness, the Ableton “Midi Clock Sync Delay” can be adjusted in the Midi driver settings panel. There is a little triangle left of the device name which will reveal additional settings when clicked. For example: http://i.stack.imgur.com/2Zx85.png

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi,
thanks for sharing your issue!
Please send the screengrab to support@zaqaudio.com

Some thoughts off the top of my head:
Is the timing problem only for the notes going back into Ableton or is it also for hardware synths connected to the Zaquencer? Is the timing error constant (so a constant offset compared to the other notes) or does it vary (one note is on time, the next is not etc etc).
When testing the Zaquencer with Ableton it was necessary to compensate a driver delay in the Ableton Midi driver settings.

[ChristianKeymaster]

This is how it will be working. So when there is a scale enabled, you hear the notes scaled to the selected scale in monitoring mode. It will write the notes actually played (then, when turning to write mode), but it will play you the notes according to the selected scale, both in monitoring and tap writing mode.

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi Tommy,
as last time I´d like to leave a little surprise too, regarding the new update
Just wanted to post the good news here to let you know it´s being worked on. It won´t take ages til the next update anymore, so you´ll see soon anyway.

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi guys,
I´m happy to tell you that this is coming in the next update.

Cheers!

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi Digian,
thanks or your suggestion!
I´m just wondering, isn´t this something you can already do with the Note Velocity parameter?
If you don´t think so, what is it specifically that sets your request apart from the Note Velocity?

Cheers,
Christian

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi guys,

without making any promises, but I have been thinking about something like this myself lately.
There should be enough memory left in the global settings to map 32 encoders for controller purposes.
The way I envisioned it was so you can map it in global menu, giving each of 32 encoders it´s Midi CC type and a Midi channel. Then I thought about actually adjusting (using) the controllers in Mixer Menu, because the encoders are not in use there. Just a very simple, straightforward functionality. Not all the bells & whistles of the original BCR, just a page of CCs more or less.

Would that fit your bill?

One thing I´m not sure about yet is if/how to store the actual values of the controllers (the types, yeah, but the actual value you set e.g. a filter to). Would that be important to you?

Again, I only know if it´ll work once I get around to start working on it, which might be a while, so please do not get your hopes up too high just yet.

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