seq cuts off silence at end of recording

Bjoern's icon

Hello,

I am trying to record midi with 'seq'. It seems that any silence after the last midi note played (i.e. any silence before stop is sent) is cut off.

Is this by design? Can this be controlled in some way?

The fact that the silence is cut off makes it hard to record loops of specific lengths!

(Max v. 6.0.5)

Many thanks!

Bjoern's icon

Follow-on question: I am trying to use 'seq' to make a midi looper. I guess somebody has made one already?! Any thoughts where I could find one?

Roman Thilenius's icon

what exactly is "silence"?

seq does not record one byte per millisecond or something, it only records events including
delte time. so after the last note off (for example) the recording is done, no matter how long
you let it run during recording.

if you need that for some reason you could help yoourself out with a special event such as
lowest note to function as "end".

i strongly suggest to look into [detonate].
it only looks complicated - in fact it is easier to make a recording/playing tool for midi or
similar stuff with this object.

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broc's icon

You just have to decide how long the loop should be and then trigger playback of seq (or detonate) at the corresponding time interval.

Bjoern's icon

Hi both,

many thanks for your suggestions!