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BDM
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Date Joined Jul 2005
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| Posted 7/3/2005 10:25 PM (GMT -5) |   | | I'm new to the program. I'm entering guitar tabs, then copying them to a guitar stave to get conventional notation. Several times I've edited in new notes and tried to playback to judge how it's going, and some or all of the notes don't play. I've even saved the file and reopened it, and they still didn't play. Then, for unknow reasons, they start to work. Any ideas what this could be? | | Back to Top | |
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migman
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| Posted 7/5/2005 8:48 AM (GMT -5) | | | Right out of the box, you are probably playing one sound on one channel. Suppose you want to notate a whole note A on the low E string (5th fret), followed by some staccato eighth note A's on beat two on the open A string. Unless you use a separate MIDI channel for each voice, the "note off" of the first staccato eighth note will also cut off the whole note. Could your problem be related to this? | | Back to Top | |
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BDM
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| Posted 7/5/2005 11:11 AM (GMT -5) | | I don't think that's it. For one thing, I'm still just using the built-in sound capability of the computer, not an external midi controller. For another thing, each measure contains just 4 beats, so every note should have time to finish before the next one is needed. For another, the same score has been seen to start working later for unknown reasons.
I thought I'd be able to show you a file that exhibits such behavior to an extreme degree. It played measures one and two, then jumped to measure 14, then stopped. The Playback Controls were properly configured to play from beginning to the end. This file played this way every time, even after I saved it and opened it again. The file was an edit I had made on another file, which had been created in NotePad with the staves in the wrong order. This morning I loaded the original file and played it, and it played fine. And when I played the flawed file immediately afterwards, it played fine too. Somehow the faulty file got straightened out by playing the original file.
It's a mystery to me. | | Back to Top | |
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Chris Smit
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Date Joined Aug 2004
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| Posted 7/5/2005 11:22 AM (GMT -5) | | | It sounds like you may be starting and stopping playback by using the Spacebar. The first time you begin playback with the Spacebar, it loads a playback file into memory, and starts to play. If you hit the Spacebar again, it pauses the playback file. If you add more notes and hit the Spacebar, it resumes the playback file that was loaded into memory before you added the new notes, and you will not hear the new changes. The best way to avoid this problem is to use click on the Stop icon located on the playback controls. If you stop the playback in this manner, you can restart by using the Play icon (or the Spacebar), and Allegro will load up a new playback file, complete with any new changes to the score. | | Back to Top | |
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BDM
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| Posted 7/5/2005 11:35 AM (GMT -5) | | | That's not it either. In order to be certain things were "clean", I always click the STOP button, the little line that means go back to the beginning, and then the PLAY button. | | Back to Top | |
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