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notes, no matter what their original lengths, eliminating
all space between notes in the affected sequence.
Delay: Normal value: 0.
This parameter alters the time position of the selected ob-
jects. Positive values correspond to a delay (laid-back play-
ing style or dragging), negative values cause a pre-delay
(driving or rushing).
The units are ticks. A tick is the smallest time resolution in
a sequencer, which in the case of MAGIX midi studio gen-
eration 6 is 1/3840th note. On the right side of the delay
value field you can use the mouse as slider to input the
value.
If you click to the left, between the word “Delay” and the
delay value, the flip menu shown here appears for you to
set the delay in terms of note value.
The delay parameter is mainly used for musical purposes.
It is also a way of fixing timing problems that may occur
for a variety of reasons. Some examples of these are:
– The attack phase of the sound is too slow. A good musi-
cian will automatically compensate for this by playing
the notes slightly early. With very slow sounds you may
need a pre-delay of over 100 ms to even them out.
– The sound generator is reacting too slowly to the
incoming note-on messages. Older multitimbral sound
generators often take tens of milliseconds before begin-
ning to output a voice. This effect may be better
compensated for by using the delay parameter in the
track parameter box, since this will affect all sequences
on all tracks sending to the slowly reacting device.
– The delay in outputting the voice is not constant
because it depends where it comes in the order of notes
arriving serially at the sound generator. You should
therefore try pre-delaying rhythmically important
tracks by as little as one tick—it can work wonders!
Fixing/Neutralizing Sequence Parameters: You can
normalize the sequence parameter settings of all selected
objects using the command Functions > Sequence Param-
eter > Normalize Sequence Parameters (Normalize). This
means that all settings are actually written to the data and
the playback parameters resume their normal values. The
audible result remains the same. The loop is not affected.
Merge/Normalize and MIDI Channels: Just like the Glue
tool, the Normalize function is intelligent with respect to
stored MIDI channel numbers. If all stored events have
the same MIDI channel number, the channel will be
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