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

[rosea grammostola]

Folderol wrote:
> 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!
>
>   
Next to non-sequencer, there is epichord 
(http://evanr.infinitymotel.net/epichord/) which might be good for fast 
composing.

And you might need to make some scripts before you gonna compose:
http://digitaldub.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/linux-audio-session-scripting/

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