[MIDI] Best way to record on real - time?

pgk's icon

Hi list (oops, forum)!

I am wondering what is the way you usually go about recording midi data
real time for later playback.

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

I looked at the options ([seq], [mtr]) and I have the following solution at the moment:
(snippet)

I will mostly use this for standard musical stuff, e.g. chords, melodies and so forth (so, mostly notein). So, how does [mtr] fare
on this? Are there other options providing better accuracy or other benefits I might not have considered? I would love to hear your input on this. Mind you, a scheduler based solution will suffice.

Best,
Panos

seejayjames's icon

I've had much better luck with [seq] and [detonate] for MIDI data than [mtr]. I had thought it would be essentially the same, but the timing etc. was a little flaky... though that was a while ago.

pgk's icon

Thanks, I will test further.

Cheers,
Panos

xh9o's icon

it´s driving me mad, but i can´t get anything work well on quick notes like you would do when piano playing (like this j.s. bach kind of stuff). i tried to record pure midi to [coll], tried pure [seq].

broc's icon
Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

Here is a patch I'm using for recording midi notes into [coll].
In my experience the timing is quite accurate (jitter < 1 ms).

PS. The used format is handy for playback with [pipe].

xh9o's icon

thanks, timingwise it doesn´t seem working better then [seq]. but it´s much less data to handle especially for later edits.