Hi,
I've had issues with the midi editing since Mixbus V5 and the problems persists in V7. In general I'm not doing anything complicated like orchestral arrangements - I record drum takes using an e-kit and do light editing after.
I was wondering whether anyone has any workarounds?
1)
The first issue is multi-selected midi notes does not clamp/saturate the velocity values when velocity is edited. For instance, if you have 2 notes selected, one at velocity 1 and the second at velocity 126 you only have 2 steps of range. Most daws will clamp the final value so the logic is: NoteVelocity = clamp(OriginalNoteVelocity + VelocityOffset, 0, 127);
Mixbus is instead clamping VelocityOffset by the largest and smallest NoteVelocity in the current selection, which is not as useful.
2)
The second issue is how hard it is to see when midi items are linked. There is no UI feedback whatsoever, and the unlink option is unhelpfully located down at least 3 sub menus.
3)
Stacked midi items all play back at the same time. This make using takes and midi unusable. The only reason you'd want stacked midi items all playing back at the same time is if you're doing multi channel arrangements, at which point I'd argue it'd be much better if you could route individual midi tracks to a singular midi instrument. At least the option to have stacked midi behave the same as audio would be a great addition.
4)
There appears to be no way of glueing midi parts together.
5)
In general the midi editing pane will not follow the zoom level and stops at a maximum height. That maximum height appears to have some relation to the size of the track before it has been zoomed or resized:
Dragging the size of the track individually:
https://pasteboard.co/MBuMrOYeKwZO.png
Using 'Z' to zoom in on a clip from a very zoomed out perspective:
https://pasteboard.co/Udaw24UyBk1c.png
Cheers
I've had issues with the midi editing since Mixbus V5 and the problems persists in V7. In general I'm not doing anything complicated like orchestral arrangements - I record drum takes using an e-kit and do light editing after.
I was wondering whether anyone has any workarounds?
1)
The first issue is multi-selected midi notes does not clamp/saturate the velocity values when velocity is edited. For instance, if you have 2 notes selected, one at velocity 1 and the second at velocity 126 you only have 2 steps of range. Most daws will clamp the final value so the logic is: NoteVelocity = clamp(OriginalNoteVelocity + VelocityOffset, 0, 127);
Mixbus is instead clamping VelocityOffset by the largest and smallest NoteVelocity in the current selection, which is not as useful.
2)
The second issue is how hard it is to see when midi items are linked. There is no UI feedback whatsoever, and the unlink option is unhelpfully located down at least 3 sub menus.
3)
Stacked midi items all play back at the same time. This make using takes and midi unusable. The only reason you'd want stacked midi items all playing back at the same time is if you're doing multi channel arrangements, at which point I'd argue it'd be much better if you could route individual midi tracks to a singular midi instrument. At least the option to have stacked midi behave the same as audio would be a great addition.
4)
There appears to be no way of glueing midi parts together.
5)
In general the midi editing pane will not follow the zoom level and stops at a maximum height. That maximum height appears to have some relation to the size of the track before it has been zoomed or resized:
Dragging the size of the track individually:
https://pasteboard.co/MBuMrOYeKwZO.png
Using 'Z' to zoom in on a clip from a very zoomed out perspective:
https://pasteboard.co/Udaw24UyBk1c.png
Cheers