Support & Troubleshooting

I wrote my own score processing program that converts MusicXML to MIDI playback. I mainly use it for Pianoteq and I discovered a long time ago that MIDI piano legato sounds much more natural when you overlap the notes by 50 to 100 ms. In fact that removes a lot of the mechanical sound of MIDI altogether. My own program is quite limited, especially with sample libraries, so I want to switch over to Opusmodus. I'm wondering if there is some way to get it to perform legato like this. While I'm asking that, I'm aware that EastWest Orchestra Gold has a "legato mode" in which notes that overlap are performed as a monophonic line with a legato connection, so maybe Op…

When am I supposed to get the license details? I purchased earlier today but no word.

Hi, I noticed something strange a short while go and need your urgent help. I am sending the score from OM to Ableton Live, and noticed that when I send the key sequence <C2, C3, C2, C3...> via Port 0, Channel 1 to Ableton Live, it is received as <C1, C2, C1, C2, ...> within Ableton. I tried again with UVI Falcon (instead of Ableton) and it was the same behaviour! Why is this happening? Any fixes? - Rangarajan

Attempted to register recent installation of OM 2.1 and received “Activation Failed” message. OS 10.12.6. Deleted previous folder from demo version. No request to create a new one on this install. Would like to clear this up. Loved the demo. Many thanks for the assistance.

Hi. I've just started with OM2 and I'm finding the emacs/slime setup a touch confusing (there has obviously been lots of work on this part of OM over the years of this forum). Basically, I run my current emacs setup with an exisiting slime setup (I do some dev work using SBCL). Is there a "correct" way of adding or modifying emacs-opusmodus.el to work with an existing setup? Or can I simply copy it, and hack it as needed? TIA and loving OM 🙂 .. m.

When I execute some code in the editor, trace messages appear in the Listener pane. Is there any way to disable the printing of these messages? When I run a large piece of code, it seems to me that these debug messages introduce some delay before the actual code is executed. Of course, these are very useful for debugging, but, it would be nice to have an option to turn these off when not required. - Rangarajan

Good evening, I am currently using Opusmodus 2.1 in MacOS Catalina and it is working very well for me. Will this version of Opusmodus be compatible with MacOS Big Sur 11.01? Any guidance that you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Eric

Has there perhaps been some change with the HTML rendering in the Assistant in recent months since August? On my Macbook Pro (OSX 10.12.6) with the latest Opusmodus version, (most) links are not followed anymore, and the CSS rendering is unreliable (can be missing but when the same page is reloaded it might be there -- sometimes multiple reloading is required; when reloading it again later, the CSS might be ignored again). Most importantly, however, I cannot select any text on the HTML page anymore, i.e. I cannot evaluate example code from HTML pages anymore. I export all the documentation of my own Opusmodus extensions into HTML mainly for that reason, so tha…

Hello! The Opusmodus commands for Emacs that are listed in file "Slime in Opusmodus" don't work for me. Written commands, like "(circle-pitch-plot 'bartok :point-radius 4)", work ok, a window opens from Opusmodus and shows the plot. But not the ?alqsv-commands, that are shown in mini buffer, but don't do anything, except command "?", that shows commands listed. I'm using Aquamacs 3.5 and my Clozure version is 1.12. Is this setup ok? Best wishes, Henry

Hey Folks! I'm running Opusmodus 2.1.26081 (2.1.26081) as a demo. Each time that I've opened the application, it crashes fairly soon afterwards. I don't yet have a way to reproduce the issue (beyond opening Opusmodus.) The first time it crashed, I was evaluating a line with ⌘1, the next time I was closing a pane, and this last time, I'd pressed ⌘E. Are other Catalina users seeing instability? I have lots of disk space. My system is generally quite stable. I'm running MacBook Pro 15-inch, 2016 w/ 2.6 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 processor and 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 memory. The crash log from the last instance follows: …

Is it safe to completely delete the folders fr.lproj and it.lproj in /Applications/Opusmodus.app/Contents/Resources when I only need the English version? HD space is somewhat limited on my laptop and this amounts to half a GB which I seemingly do not need. The tricky bit is that I would need to delete these folders with every update, but hey 🙂 Thanks! Best, Torsten

Apologies, this is a lengthy message, but I want to provide all the relevant technical details to demonstrate the problem. 😊 I would like to control piano pedalling (e.g., with Pianoteq). Many things seemingly work out of the box once the predefined pianoteq sound set is specified (nice!), but some things I would like to refine. The PDF document 4th Element Attributes lists the attributes related to pedalling: ped1 ped half-ped1 half-ped sost-ped1 sost-ped una-corda1 una-corda First a question (could not find the in the docs): the attributes ending in 1 (e.g., ped1) denote a pedalling that is always released (or re-pedalle…

Hi, it seems that the automatically created clefs e.g. from ps are not exported with music-xml. When I open these files in Sibelius the clefs are gone. Any suggestions how to solve or work around this? Achim

I am trying to get my PIANOTEQ Instrument to be recognized when i go to play the score this score, is an experiment that i basically copied, changing a few parameters for diversity and fun. The PIANOTEQ Instrument works perfectly with Opusmodus except for when i go to play the score. It will play back any of the individual aspects, just not the whole score. Can someone please help. I cannot stand the sound of the GM piano score.opmo

> Error: The function double is predefined by Opusmodus. > While executing: ccl::cerror-if-redefine-om, in process Opusmodus Extension Initialization(5). > Type cmd-/ to continue, cmd-. to abort, cmd-\ for a list of available restarts. > If continued: Replace the definition of double. > Type :? for other options. 1 > WHAT DOES IT MEAN, AND HOW CAN I FIX IT?

Hi, Is there perhaps a way to adjust the overall duration of a nested (barred) OMN sequence? In particular, is there a function to cut notes etc. at the beginning/end of a sequence, so that the result has a specified overall duration? The first example just demonstrates what I would like to have. (setf phrase '((1/2 c4 1/4 d4) (1/4 e4 1/2 c4))) ;; Edit phrase such that the result is exactly 5/4 long by preserving the nesting structure (function-I-am-looking-for 5/4 phrase) ; => ((h c4 q d4) (q e4 c4)) ; cut material at end ; => ((q c4 q d4) (q e4 h c4)) ; cut material at beginning There already exist at least two functions th…

Hey guys, Can I change the .rtfd font size? it's for being able to comfortably read the language/tutorial guide documents as I can control the composer and the listener but not the assistant help docs... It's too small for me, and I have a large screen as well. Thanks! Julio

Sometimes I find I cannot focus the saving process on the current workspace; it won't save on command-s, and on shift-command-s, what is offered for saving is the .opmo file, no matter what efforts I can think to make to focus elsewhere than the composer. Anyone else? Solutions?

Opusmodus 1.2 can be used from within the Emacs editor as well (see the post at the link below for details). For me as a programmer having additionally access to the Emacs Lisp IDE SLIME is greatly preferable due to various advanced features provided by Slime when compared with the more easy-to-use native IDE of Opusmodus. For more information on SLIME see its website: https://common-lisp.net/project/slime Unfortunately, the SLIME link is seemingly broken in Opusmodus 1.3, which I just started for the first time. For those who have no SLIME installed (but have Quicklisp set up), SLIME can be installed with the following command. (ql:quic…

Hello, new user here— among the first things I did with OM was to import some simple MIDI files, using directions in a video that has now been lost, as I understand. Just tried to do this again and realized I'd no recollection of exactly how to do it, or how I did it. I've read the two functions for doing this, and I definitely didn't use either of those methods before! Could someone who knows the method please describe it here, until a new video or other tutorial about it reappears? Many thanks in advance!

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I've been playing around with Rangarajan's "Constraint Programming with Screamer" file, and ran across what looks like a bug. The program generates this chord sequence (which I assigned to chords-1): (setf chords-1 '((h. c3e3g3 ff -q) (h. d3f3a3 ff -q) (h. g3b3d4 ff -q) (h. a3c4e4 ff -q) (h. e3g3b3 ff -q) (h. g3b3d4 ff -q) (h. a3c4e4 ff -q) (h. c3e3g3 ff -q))) If I just cmd-1 on that, it displays and plays just fine. If I evaluate this, though: (ps 'gm :treble chords-1 :time-signature '(4 4) :tempo 120) I get this mess: It plays one chord (or rather, discord). This seems ok: (get-time-signature chords-1…

Hi, I'am exploring gen-dynamic-controller, which jumps immeadiately to the value of zero, which is cutting off the sample ( Spitfire string quartet), see attachments. Is there a way to avoid this? thanks! vel_jumps_to_0.mp3

Hi, The combination of 'harm' and 'tie' is leading to strange results, can anyone confirm (or am I missing something)? (setf harm '((w e7 f harm tie)(w e7 f harm ))) creates this:

I've been away from OM for a while, and now I am preparing some examples for teaching. For some reason this simple example won't playback staccato properly (Snippet > Audition and Notation). What am I missing here? The notation shows the staccato markings. (make-omn :length (gen-repeat 20 'q) :pitch (integer-to-pitch '(0 2 5 7 10)) :velocity '(mp) :attribute '(- - stacc) :span :length )