[LAU] Composing fast[was] LAM annual Best of mix 2009

Folderol folderol at ukfsn.org
Sat Dec 12 16:06:08 EST 2009


On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:34:16 -0600 (CST)
Brent Busby <brent at keycorner.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, david wrote:
> 
> > Brent Busby wrote:
> >> Sometimes I do like to turn off the bars/beats/ticks ruler in Ardour,
> >> forget about quantizing (or throw sequencing out the window entirely),
> >> and just record, and let the quarter note pulse come from me.  Then I
> >> can just record layers over it.  It's almost as free as 4-track
> >> cassette...but *much* better audio quality...
> >
> > That's sort of like me. I'm horrible at deciding beforehand just how
> > fast a piece should be, or what time signature it should use. (I'm still
> > trying to figure out the time signature of the little riff in the
> > improvisation I posted a few weeks ago - and I've been playing that riff
> > for 4-5 years now.) So I'll arm a track in Rosegarden and just start
> > playing - then have to sort through the resulting mess when I've finally
> > played my way to the time/tempo the song wants.
> >
> > Perhaps I should request a new feature in Rosegarden: a "no time
> > signature" mode. Just let the notes come in as they may - and clean it
> > up afterwards.
> >
> > I just asked about that on the Rosegarden-users list, will see what
> > comes of it.
> 
> In the early 90's, there was a hardware sequencer, the Alesis MMT8, that 
> was very popular and is still used by some people today, just because it 
> was capable of recording a single, open-ended sequence as long as your 
> whole song.  (And of course, you could do that with quantization off...) 
> If you ended up with a sequence 684 "bars" long, fine.  And who says 
> your playing even had to pay any attention to where the machine thought 
> the measure lines in the 684 sequencer bars were?
> 
> I think something like this could still be very popular, because not 
> everybody who sequences is always sequencing dance music with robotic 
> timing.  (I do like techno, but that's not all I'm interested in.) 
> Often all people want the sequencer to be is a free-form Midi event 
> generator.  Just let the humans worry about tempo and beats...
>
You can do this with Rosegarden ... See my other post!

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.



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