FAQ for Catanya
There are used transformational rules (not MIDI notes) as internal Catanya data. It means that output MIDI notes are the result of mixing the input notes and those rules. The plugin is not able to create any output sequence when there are missing active notes at the input which are just at a timeline respectively inside your head (you are going to play them).
There is only one relatively useful solution: there will be button Record inside Catanya which allows to load an output sequence. It will be moved to the timeline using Drag&Drop after that.
So you have to:
1) press Record button (Catanya),
2) press Play button (host),
3) load the sequence,
4) stop playing (host),
5) Drag&Drop to the timeline or export as MIDI.
This seems contraproduktive because it is needed just to press Record inside the host and load the sequence to the track right now.
When you use Reaper it’s possible to render (offline) output MIDI as new take.
Playing presets is problematic due to selected tempo.
For example: Techno is usually played at the interval from cca 120 to 150 bpm. The bass pattern is super-techno-cool at 150bpm but at 130 it’s horrible.
It is necessary to watch control Tempo on every preset. There are levels Slow (up to 90), Middle (90-120), High (120-150), Very High (higher than 150) right now. We are planning to define and show recommended tempo for every new patterns.
Many people don’t understand what Catanya is, what’s its target and its main ability.
It’s not common MIDI player. It’s not step sequencer either. Maybe it was mistake to call it arpeggiator because Catanya is much more.
Following picture explain it to you:
This picture shows that there are allways transformed input notes ONLY. There are your tones on the output too, at three octaves range. It’s not possible (like step sequencers, MIDI players, MIDI phraze library do) that you receive nice pattern which you can place to your composition but it doesn’t harmonize.
Some tones are out of the chord even out of the scale sometimes. You need to edit it hardly. This is not problem with Catanya because if you have your input chord all right then the output sequence will be ALLWAYS all right too (musically).
So give it try from this point of view and we believe that you will find it great.
Wishing many wonderful compositions ….