JLoon,
It sounds like you may be recording to a pattern with a set interval, which is great for a quick fill or accent, not so much during the composition or vamping phase.
Make sure the pattern you wish to record is not pasted in the arrangement window anywhere and that the digits in the upper left of the step sequencer read [--]. This should allow you to record to the piano roll as long as you'd like.
Just remember, if you're playing over a drum loop/pattern, make sure to have a minute or so worth of the pattern on the arrangement window or your drum will drop out in the middle of your playing.
Hope this helps.
Yours in music,
-J
try recording in song mode
are there any other pre-existing samples/instruments/loops/, etc. sharing the same pattern that you are trying to record to. Even if you don't see anything, try recording to a fresh pattern and report your results.
*love_421, I completely forgot about that (I tend to leave it on song mode), good tip. This one's really got me confused.
JLoon, thanks for the quick responses.
This now sounds more and more like a midi issue. I'd need a little more info to be sure What kind of equiptment are you using? (workstation or controller?) and how does it connect? (MIDI out/USB out?) Do you hear the notes you're playing in real time as you play them? Try opening the Midi Interface window (I think it's in options, I'm going off of memory.) and rescan your devices. I have a USB MIDI controller and sometimes it "forgets" itself, solved with a rescan of hardware or a power cycle of the unit itself more often than not.
so...you're playing it as an audio-in?...like a guitar? there won't be piano roll then...only on midi tracks. Use Edison on a free mixer track, set your audio in, hit record and go.
ahh...I'm lame...already forgetting my pre-gear days. :banghead: Yeah, I never got the hang of using the computer keyboard. I did the ol' point, click, drag method for my first few songs. I like Wedges' idea...give that a shot. Sorry for my misunderstanding.
**edit** found an old FP thread that may address your issue (but I can't post links yet so...: (this site, with the /forums/ thenshowthread.php?t=208564
Have you pressed Ctrl+T to activate your computer keyboard as a midi controller yet?
what i do is just open the piano roll and put a note like at 8 bars or something and turn down the velocity on that note, then just record over it
what happens is once the marker is past the 1st bar everything im recording is getting added to the 1st bar. Its pretty odd but basically it just doesnt want to record past the 1st bar.