Menu 4 Rhythm Editor for gate length

[Darryl]

Its a fundamental limitation with the architecture of the code. The NDLR turns notes off only when there are new notes to turn on. There's no timer method for note gates, so it would be a significant rework of the code to get a gate length. We've been working on The NDLR code for a couple of years now, and this is something we would also like to have, but right now we are prioritizing bug fixes as we are heads down on new product development. Once the new product is launched we can circle around to see about getting some new features implemented.

This is quite frankly, a fairly significant problem. Every analog mono synth will have issues with this as the envelopes will not retrigger on each step which renders them useless with NDLR. If it isn't possible to make it editable, the default gate really shouldn't be 100%. 








James

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Is there a way to implement slides by inverting the logic so that notes overlap (gate longer than 100%)?
I agree gates should be less than 100% in general, and I am wondering if that’s why I get so many hung notes when working w the NDLR?

Slides are not something you can do in MIDI. Its a function of changing control voltage in the sound module. Theoretically, one could simulate a slide in MIDI by sending a pitch bend, carefully calibrated from the starting note to the ending note. However, this would not work without some kind of calibration feature to match the target sound module pitch bend range, and many synths will drift as the temperature changes, which is why we didn't pursue the idea.

The NDLR MIDI output is MIDI spec, so there shouldn't be any stuck notes if the receiving device is processing the data correctly, but we've seen some cases where devices do not process MIDI consistently. VCV Rack is an example of being sensitive to MIDI note off to note on timing, but its allowed in MIDI so it should be fixable.