tinyrhino Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 My midi instruments are playing out of tune, doesn't happen all the time and doesn't happen on all instruments. I've tried unplugging keyboard, doesn't make any difference. I've seen posts about pitch bending automation being the problem, but I never use automation for pitch bending. Can anybody help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n6smith Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 If It's not automation itself, it could simply be the pitch bender on your ext keyboard, not correctly reseting itself after use... Try selecting a track in a project, that sounds out of tune and move the pitchbend wheel while the project is playing back, to see if that changes things. Also, look in the events editor list and see if there are any pitchbend data that has been accidentally recorded... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickenbacker360 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Tinyrhino - I've seen this out of tune behavior when using Klav (Clavinet) for example. I am 100% sure I've got no MIDI pitch bend info since I've viewed the event list and deleted any and all. Still, I would hear the instrument go out of tune—BAD—during playback. My only solution was to solo the MIDI track and bounce to an audio track. Then I used only the bounced track. That worked. I am uncertain why but suspect the CPU cannot process the Klav with other stuff going on during full-song playback, such as plugins. Of course, I'm not sure. Perhaps this will help you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucytune Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Check that you are not microtuning your project. i.e File/Project Settings/Tuning/ is set to 12 edo. If it is another setting it will sound outta tune unless your are already familiar with microtuning. see: http://www.lucytune.com/midi_and_keyboard/pitch_bend.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinyrhino Posted November 20, 2012 Author Share Posted November 20, 2012 Thanks to everyone who got back. It's still going out of tune, even if the keyboard is unplugged, so it can't be the pitch bend on the keyboard. And I haven't accidentally recorded pitch bend data. It happens randomly, so the midi works ok for a while, then slides about a semitone out. And then slides out about the same place in the song each time, but not always. And it also bounces out of tune. Anyone any ideas? I'm desperate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
involver Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 Which plugins are going out of tune? HAve you also tried looking for rogue MIDI controllers, aftertouch etc in the event list? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n6smith Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 Also check your global tracks at the point where it goes out of tune in case you accidentally set a key or chord change there... as well as the event list. Other than that you could zip up your project and attach it here so someone can take a look at it for you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharraron Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Exactly the same and mystified. All I have done is create a 4-bar / 2 Chord repeat pattern. When I copy/paste to repeat the pattern, it plays out of tune, even though all I have done is to copy the 1st one which sounds ok. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 sharraron, do you have any events in your global tracks? Chord, Transposition, Signature tracks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebrobertson Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 i need to bump this thread because this is happening to me too. There is no automation of pitch bend and nothing in global. The strangest part is that it's random. If i quit the session an reopen it will be in tune for a while and then it goes out. Was this ever solved? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cardenas Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Sounds like you are using a third party instrument in demo mode. Which instrument do you use? Zebra? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouchman Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Ok I have this problem - a B2 midi note when played back plays D#2. Frustrating and extrememly time wasting trying to figure it out? Any Clues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batti67 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Don`t know if this can help but I had this problem on one project with terrible out of tune midi instruments. I went into project settings / tuning / software instrument scale, and discovered that the "fixed" checkbox was checked. I checked the equal tempered checkbox and it all came back to normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jehanshaw Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 I was having the same problem where the midi signals coming in were correct but the audio was out of tune. I found another post which helped me solve it; My audio interface was set to sample rate of 48kHz, but Mainstage was sending at 44.1kHz. Matching them solved the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dario Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 Did you find the solution to this problem? I'm having the same issue! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpsocko Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 I was having the same problem where the midi signals coming in were correct but the audio was out of tune. I found another post which helped me solve it;My audio interface was set to sample rate of 48kHz, but Mainstage was sending at 44.1kHz. Matching them solved the problem. I created an account here just to say "THANK YOU!!!" This was driving me absolutely crazy, and changing the sample rate as you described fixed it for me. Why sample rate affects MIDI is beyond me, but I can now slow down MIDI tracks, whereas I could not before (piano tracks would stay in tune, but violin tracks were detuning to a horrid pitch halfway between out of tune and "please kill me now!"). Happy camper here -- woo hoo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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