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How to extract duration list in CHORD-SEQ?

Hello everyone,

I’m trying to figure out how to have access to the list of durations from the outlet of a CHORD-SEQ object after it has been edited and locked. Apparently the method of comand + shift + click do not work in this case. Neither if I connect a print function to this outlet. It always gives me the default result. Is there another way of doing that? Am I doing something wrong? I want to connect this result to a OMQUANTIFY function.

Thanks!

Yes,

You can have the list of durations and rest by using the true-durations function in (functions->Score->Score-Functions)

But you have to be carefull with the fact that a chord-seq could be bearing polyphonic durations. so you should use in this case the normalize-chord-seq fucntion before…

Best
K

Hi – I do suspect that you are doing something wrong : there is no reason why cmd+click or connecting a print to the output of a CHORD-SEQ would not show you the list of durations… are you sure the box is locked ? can you attach your patch, maybe ?

Hi Jean,

Yes, the box is locked and the strangest thing is that if I do with the midics outlet, for example, it works correctly. Its not a single patch’s problem, it is happening with all chord-seq objects that I create. I took a picture of one patch so you can see the listener window giving a result different from the one inside the box. I’m working with 6.9. Should I update to 6.10? Do you think this could solve my problem?

All the best,

Alex

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I suspect there is a confusion here about what durations are.
=> Durations are not “inter-onsets” You can check them by selecting “dur” in the drop-down menu at the bottom left of the editor. They probably are all 1000ms as indicated.

If you want inter-onset, use X->DX with the lonset output, as indicated here : http://support.ircam.fr/docs/om/om6-manual/co/Quantification.html

… or use the TRUE-DURATIONS function as indicated by Karim. This will take into account the actual durations of the notes and convert possible “gaps” into silence (expressed as negative durations).

Yes Jean and Karim, my bad.

What got me into that confusion was the name of the first inlet of OMQUANTIFY (durs). Understand my mistake now, thank you for your answers!