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dinoman · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject: Bar offset

I am now up and running with Cubase 4. My previous version was SL1, so I don't know if the "bar offset" feature in my project set up is new to Cubase 4 or just new to me.

It got me thinking though. It has been stated that jamstix likes a couple of bars to "sinc up", and I have therefore always left a couple of bars muted at the beginning for that reason.

Will there be a way in Jamstix 2 to offset the bar # to compensate for muted bars at the beginning? It's not really convenient to be at bar one in Cubase, and bar 3 in Jamstix. Not even convenient for Jamstix to say Im on bar 8 of my song, when really I'm on bar 6. Since we often count bars by fours or eights for song structure, it really is a good idea to know what bar you are really on.

So the question is, will Jamstix 2 be able to offest the bar numbers so we can start the numbering at bar three for example. Or better yet, will Jamstix 2 sync faster so that the muting of the first couple of bars will no longer be necessary?

Thanks,
Geoff

(Edit) I meant to post this in the "Jamstix 2 information" thread.

Doc · Moderator Joined: 26 Feb 2005 Posts: 663

Are you aware that you can already do this?
In the Arrangement Tab down on the left side you can change the start bar of Jamstix.
Given you set 2 bars offset in Cubase and Start Bar = 2 in Jamstix there should be absolutely no counting problem anymore.
Cubase will precount 2 bars and Jamstix will start at zero then.

Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

Doc, I think Geoff is talking about a bar offset between Cubase and Jamstix. The 'Start Bar' in the arranger controls only what bar is used to calculate the fills from.

Geoff, do you have a line in your Jamstix.ini file like 'BarOffset=2'?
If so, remove it to make the bar counting of JS and Cubase identical.
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Doc · Moderator Joined: 26 Feb 2005 Posts: 663

Oh I see....
misunderstanding then. Cool

dinoman · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:36 pm Post subject:

Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

It's in the Jamstix folder.
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dinoman · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:51 pm Post subject:

I have a file called Jamstix configuration settings - is that it? It has similar lines in notepad such as:

[General]
AudioTrim=100
First103=0
Outputs=8
MIDIOutChannel=1
Skill=1
VoiceReduction=6
AudioInSmoothing=4296

I have nothing called Jamstix.ini.

( am looking at a little older version on Jamstix on my laptop here at work - no more than 6 months old though. The up to date version ins on my desktop at home. . . Probably not relevant?)

Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

That's the file I need. It is called jamstix.ini but your 'friendly' Windows XP hides the extension from you and calls it a configuration file because of your Explorer settings.
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dinoman · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:06 pm Post subject:

Thanks. I've wondered about that file before when it was refered to in the forum. No Baroffset line though (or anything that sounds similar).

Geoff

Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

Can you send me the file to support[at]rayzoon.com?

Also, just to confirm, when Cubase says Bar 1, Jamstix says Bar 3, right?
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