Note 9 Length

[Brandi Wendelberger]

Asingle eighth note, or any faster note, is always stemmed with flags, while two or more are usually beamed in groups.[16] When a stem is present, it can go either up (from the right side of the note head) or down (from the left side), except in the cases of the longa or maxima which are nearly always written with downward stems. In most cases, the stem goes down if the notehead is on the center line or above, and up otherwise. Any flags always go to the right of the stem.

The double dot was first used in 1752 by J. J. Quantz;[17] in music of the 18th century and earlier the amount by which the dot augmented the note varied: it could be more or less than the modern interpretation, to fit into the context.[17]

Although note heads of various shapes, and notes with and without stems appear in early Gregorian chant manuscripts, many scholars agree that these symbols do not indicate different durations, although the dot is used for augmentation. See neume.

In the 13th century, chant was sometimes performed according to rhythmic modes, roughly equivalent to meters; however, the note shapes still did not indicate duration in the same way as modern note values.

Around 1250, Franco of Cologne invented different symbols for different durations, although the relation between different note values could vary; three was the most common ratio. Philippe de Vitry's treatise Ars nova (1320) described a system in which the ratios of different note values could be 2:1 or 3:1, with a system of mensural time signatures to distinguish between them.

This black mensural notation gave way to white mensural notation around 1450, in which all note values were written with white (outline) noteheads. In white notation the use of triplets was indicated by coloration, i.e. filling in the noteheads to make them black (or sometimes red). Both black and white notation periodically made use of ligatures, a holdover from the clivis and porrectus neumes used in chant.

Around 1600 the modern notational system was generally adopted, along with barlines and the practice of writing multipart music in scores rather than only individual parts. In the 17th century, however, old usages came up occasionally.

The British names go back at least to English renaissance music, and the terms of Latin origin had international currency at that time. Longa means 'long', and many of the rest indicate relative shortness. Breve is from Latin brevis, 'short', minim is from minimus, 'very small', and quaver refers to the quavering effect of very fast notes. The elements semi-, demi- and hemi- mean 'half' in Latin, French and Greek respectively. The chain semantic shift whereby notes which were originally perceived as short came progressively to be long notes is interesting both linguistically and musically. However, the crotchet is named after the shape of the note, from the Old French for a 'little hook', and it is possible to argue that the same is true of the minim, since the word is also used in palaeography to mean a vertical stroke in mediaeval handwriting.

when dragging MIDI note lenghts with grid snap turned on I can only snap to eighths. regardless of the quantize and or grid settings. Grid and quantize works as it should otherwise. Does anyone know what i might have inadvertantly done or can anybody confirm that dragging note lenghts works properly with grid snap in cubase 9

A quarter note (or crotchet) is a quarter of the value of a whole note. Therefore, 4 quarter notes add up to one whole note.

Here is the symbol for the quarter note/crotchet. You can see that the notehead is filled in:

You can see that the quarter note (crotchet) has a filled notehead, a stem, but no tail. If you un-fill the notehead and remove the stem the note length gets longer. If you add more tails to the stem, the note gets progressively shorter.

If a note is above the middle line of the stave then the stems are drawn down from the note (starting on the left hand side of the notehead).

If a note is below the middle line of the stave then the stems are written upwards from the note (starting on the right hand side of the notehead).

If a note is on the middle line then the stem can be drawn either upwards or downwards depending on the surrounding notes and whether they have predominantly upwards/downwards stems.

There are a few guidelines about beaming notes in traditional music notation.

For example, eighth notes should not be beamed together across the middle of a bar of 4/4 whilst shorter notes are beamed together in beats.

I have a song which plays back at 40 bpm. However, there are really 80 bpm. Is there a way of converting all the midi data so that notes are doubled in length - e.g. semi-quavers become quavers, etc.?

Regards, Richard.

Yes: Logical Editor: Double the length and position values of all events (not only the note- maybe you have CC data?), then change your tempo to the the correct one. See attached. (caveat: make sure the first not of the selection is right at the beginning of the midi Part)

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You can Export the Tempo track to an XML file. (The Signature track is also exported). The BPM values in the file (and I suppose the PPQ values) could be edited manually, but with many values, a program would be need to do it.

For example, say I have a long phrase a mix of quarter-notes and eighth-notes played legato at 120 tempo and now want to repeat the same legato phrase now expressed as eighth-notes and sixteenth-notes played legato at 120 tempo.

This can be fixed by zooming in and manually adjusting the gate lengths, but is there any setting that I am unable to find that allows you to specify default note length? I would love it if a 16th note would actually just be a 16th note at every level, rather than being a 16th note at 1/16th zoom ratio, and then a gate of expanding length as I zoom in further.

A quick way to drop staccato 16ths (only a 32nd long) is to zoom into 32nd zoom, turn on cross-screen (to fill both pages), and places notes on every other pad. 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.

The note length is always the same as zoom level. So maybe that helps?

I'm having the same issue with MIDI tracks. The 16th notes are a bit too long. If there was a way to adjust the default note length so it could be half of what ever the viewable resolution is it make things a lot easier. having to zoom in to 32nd notes just to create 16ths is a real pain. This really only applies to MIDI because you are generally going to handle the envelop somewhere else so if the gate is too long it ties all the notes together.

A quick way to drop staccato 16ths (only a 32nd long) is to zoom into 32nd zoom, turn on cross-screen (to fill both pages), and places notes on every other pad. 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.

The note length is always the same as zoom level. So maybe that helps?

As @xntrk said, for the Deluge's own synths it works as intended depending on the envelope. It's more a MIDI out issue, probably, where gates unintentionally and seemingly randomly ties the notes (that's my experience over USB to VCV-rack)

Anything? It would be nice if there was a default setting for gate length, or even a way to quickly adjust gate length, like how adjusting the velocity per pad already works, whereas every pad is the same value after.

Pulsar-23 sequencing would benefit greatly from this.

@sfjtdr said:

Anything? It would be nice if there was a default setting for gate length, or even a way to quickly adjust gate length, like how adjusting the velocity per pad already works, whereas every pad is the same value after.

Pulsar-23 sequencing would benefit greatly from this.

Checked midi options to record midi off notes and they are on and I am playing live (I am pressing the space bar to start the song and I see the tracks rolling. Also I am pressing the escape key to enable recording). Also checked with MIDIOX to make sure the keyboard is transmitting midi off events and it does.

Notice the 90 command (Note On) and 80 command (Note Off) as you would expect. Your wording makes it sound a little like you meant the devices sends a Note On of zero velocity for a Note Off, which I have read some devices do or will at least accept.

Or it perhaps expect the same velocity value that was send with the note on value.

MidiOx allows you to change values right? what happens if you instruct MidiOX to always send full 7F velocity values on all $80 and $90 byte notes?

At every zoom level, you can switch to triplet mode, where only 12 of the 16 pads are used. The deluge uses a very faint with color on the pad that is disabled, to show the fact that every 4th pads is inactive, and the other 3 steps show the triplets. Switching back and forth between 16x 16th notes and 12x 8th note triplets feels really natural.

The other interesting feature is to use a shortcut to set the note length by selecting a pad, rather than rotating an encoder. In the case of the Deluge is the only way to set the note length, which is not as precise as the Pyramid way, but in some cases, being able to just click on the step you want the note to end, instead of counting steps while rotating the encoder would be more immediate.

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