[LAU] midi: trigger a "piano roll scroller" type thing?

andy baxter andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk
Tue Jun 22 04:41:12 UTC 2010


On 22/06/10 03:31, Aaron L. wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I don't do any midi stuff.
>
> I've messed around with it a bit and understand the basics but I'm 
> wondering if a certain midi "feature" (not sure what to call it) exists.
>
> Let's say you have a pre-recorded bass track......
>
> And you create a midi file out of it....
>
> Would it be possible to trigger each individual note of that midi file 
> with, say, a kick pedal in real, human time?
>
> This would mean that every kick drum hit would trigger a new note (the 
> next one in the series) but would still be triggered by a human 
> being's sense of rhythm.
>
You could have a look at SuperCollider - it's an audio synthesis 
programming language, where some of the built in language functions do 
various audio-related things. Programming something like this would be a 
fair bit of work, but it should definitely be possible.

andy


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