[linux-audio-dev] Transport Regions

[Thorsten Wilms]

Hi!

I have been thinking about combining sequencing, (live) looping 
and sampling.

I call the concept I arrived at Transport Regions for now (might 
call it Areas, Scopes, Frames ... a native speaker's take on this?).


A Transport Regions groups n tracks, defining a common playback 
posistion and transport state (playing, paused, reverse ...).

Loops can be defined with Markers.

A 'classic' sequencer/daw project would use only 1 Region, but 
having several could allow sooperlooper like action, with the 
advantage of simple extension, moving on from jamming to 
production.

Transport commands to specific Regions could be recorded and 
played back themselves.

Instrument type samples could be treated the same, with the 
known markers, just for rather short loops, provided transport 
actions could be mapped to midi/notes.
Multisampling would require means to map (midi) parameters 
to track level changes and/or soloing/muting.

Patterns could actualy be Transport Regions triggered from a 
track, from which they would need to 'inherit' tempo for normal 
operation.


Well ... just food for thought!


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Thorsten Wilms