[LAU] Tangerine Dream

[Jeremy]

lanas wrote:
> Le Mercredi, 20 Janvier 2010 22:57:10 -0300,
> robert lazarski <robertlazarski at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:32 PM, lanas <lanas at securenet.net> wrote:
>>>  With all the Linux audio tools around, is there a way to have
>>> the type of sequences/arpeggios like Tangerine Dream was using ?  A
>>> simple example would be ZynAddSubFx's 'Sequence 2' patch.  I wonder
>>> how Tangerine Dream were doing these sequences and arpeggios.  Like
>>> for instance the beautiful sequenced synth right after the piano
>>> intro on 'Ricochet'.  In those times they surely did not have
>>> powerful sequencers to store all of these for live concerts.  They
>>> must have relied on some programmable arpeggio type of function.
>>>  Is there a way to have such a flexibility to create similar things
>>> in Linux and if so, which tools ?
>>>
>> There are midi files here to get you started:
>>
>> http://www.tadream.net/midi.htm
>>
>> Any linux sequencer like seq24 and rosegarden will play those. I've
>> never seen a midi file for 'Ricochet' , that'd be kool. Lots of synths
>> of that era had built in sequencers, and analog sequencers then also
>> did exist, so they used that I believe when possible.
> 
> That's not it I think.  Using a sequencer for that is like painting the
> Mona Lisa by number.  Tangerine Dream surely have used some sequencers
> but a large part of their work resided in the capability to modify in
> real time what sound like 'sequences' by turning knobs and plugging
> wires as sounds were made.  As such, it was really a performance, more
> than we could think in general.  So I think rather they were using
> complex arpeggiators.  Today we can listen to that and write it down in
> a MIDI file, but that's not what I'm looking for.
> 
> Recently I got the latest by Ozric Tentacles (Yum-yum Tree) and they
> also are using some of those real-time modifiable pseudo-'sequences' so
> I guess some synths are sold with that capability.
> 
> I had the suggestion that qmidiarp could do something similar, so I'll
> check it out soon.  Using too much of that could be unnerving (a
> critiscm I make towards the Ozrics sometimes) but by itself it sure
> sounds fun to groove to.  I like the 'Sequence 2' in zynaddsubfx for
> starters.
> 
> Cheers.
>

You could also try PHASEX which has the possibility to generate
arpeggios that can be modified. Or a tool like Arpage, a MIDI arpeggiator.

PHASEX: http://sysex.net/phasex/
Arpage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/arpage/

Best,

Jeremy