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Transport Functions
If you want to improve a difficult part of a certain passage,
you can use a combination of cycle and autodrop. Cycle
mode lets you practice as many times as you like before
the “final take”. Each time, only the autodrop range is re-
corded. You can use the previous section to “get into the
groove”.
Recording with Skip Cycle: If skip cycle is switched on
the cycle region is left out during the recording.
Chase Events
Chase Events is a function which searches all the se-
quences playing at a jump-in point. The function exam-
ines what all these sequences are doing before the jump-in
point, to find out which events would be affecting playback
at the jump-in point, if it had been reached by playing
through the song, rather than by just jumping there.
This is a complex point to grasp, so here’s another expla-
nation:
If you start playback of a song in the middle, by jumping
straight to that point (via Cycle mode looping or by direct
placement), you might expect there to be problems with
note playback. If an important note started playing just be-
fore the play-start point, you would expect MAGIX midi
studio generation 6 to miss it, and the note would not
sound. Notes, however, are not the only potential prob-
lem. If there were a maximum pitch-bend message just
before the play-start point, playback would leave this out
too. Fortunately, MAGIX midi studio generation 6 is
smarter than your average MIDI sequencer, to misquote
Yogi Bear…
Open the Options > Settings > Chase Events… to set up
the chase events function.
The function searches all the sequences playing at the
play-start point, looking before the play-start for a selec-
tion of the following:
– any notes still due to be playing at the play-start point;
– any notes still due to be playing at play-start, because of
a held-down sustain pedal (Chase sustained Notes);
– program changes;
– pitch-bend information;
– continuous controllers 0—15;
– continuous “switch” controllers 64—71;
– all other controllers (all other Controls);
– monophonic (channel) aftertouch;