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Hi all

I'm working on a generative music system. My system creates a stream of midi notes that I can play through any midi synth.
The problem is that some times the system plays a note that is still playing and this create an unwanted sound effect (like a very short - staccato note).

I trying to figure out how to solve the problem!
I think I need to know what are the notes the system is playing at every time, so I can check if every new note the system is going to play is similar or different from those notes.

Do you know if exist any externals or patches to solve this problem?

Do you have any idea about how to solve this problem?

Alon

I'm trying to synchronize Jack transport and PD.
I need to sync a pd patch with a drum loop running on Hydrogen in order to have the same BPM and to share the same transport control (start, stop....)
Do you have any idea about how to do this?

ALON

Than you for the suggestions!

Also my first idea was to create a list of notes playing, but the management of the list seems to me quite complicate in comparison to the real complexity of the problem.

I will try the simple way to send a note off message before every note on.
The drawback here is that I will send a lot of useless note off messages because the problem occurs not very often.

But I need to solve it because its musical inconsistency is very annoying.

After searching for a while I found a very interesting PD object:

jack_transport~

(The code is available at http://artdent.homelinux.net/svn/jack_transport~/ )

it's very useful for my application. It can have in PD information about the jack transport like:

BPM
Ticks
beat
measure

I use the command line application jack_transport as master control to set the BPM and other tempo settings for the jack transport.
Then i can finally synchronize PD and Hydrogen.

Linux User ++

I use PD mainly under UBUNTU (8.04) and I think it works very well!!!