[LAU] Lightweight, small-screen-real-estate sequencer?

[Ken Restivo]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:55:42PM +0100, Hartmut Noack wrote:
> Am 11.02.2011 20:13, schrieb Ken Restivo:
>> Is there a lightweight, fast, not-extravagant-with-screen-real-estate (i.e. will work in 1024X600) piano-roll sequencer?
>>
>> I just need MIDI only. I don't want a tracker, I need piano roll.
>
> Seq24 fits your description 1:1.

Thanks. I used it successfully for years on a 64-bit 2.33Ghz Intel PC with 2GB RAM, but it is unusably slow on a 1.6Ghz 32-bit Intel PC with 1GB RAM.

>
> https://edge.launchpad.net/seq24/
>
> It is available for all major flavours of Linux.
>
> Mind the one trick that kept me from using it for several months after I  
> encountered it first(because I did not know it ;-) ):
>
> Rightklick in a Pattern turns the cursor into a pencil (draw-mode  
> obviously) BUT: you have to *hold rightklick* and make a leftklick to  
> actually draw a note in the piano-roll.
>
> Seq24 is a pattern-sequencer especially capable for live-situations. But  
> it has a song-editor also so you can make patterns and glue them  
> together to get a conventional song.
>
> You have to set MIDI-out connections and channels in the pattern-editor.  
> The tools for this are sef-explanatory. If you ever have plaed around  
> with a MIDI-sequencer before, you will find out everything you need  
> within minutes.
>
>>
>> I know Rosegarden pretty well, and like it, but it slows to a crawl on my little EEE. Likewise Seq24, I've used it a lot in the past, but it is unusably slow on this little guy. And I'm not diving into Ardour3 yet.
>>
>> Seems like piano-roll MIDI sequencing, which as been around since CakeWalk in the days of 20Mhz 16-bit Intel 286 PCs and Vision in the days of 16Mhz 68000 Macs, could be accomplished with great speed on a 1.6Ghz 32-bit machine (or . Maybe there's a Linux program out there which does it, but I just haven't found it yet.
>>
>> Something pretty much like that should be around for Linux. Or should I fire up a 68000 emulator and Mac ROM and run EZ-Vision, or my 68000 Atari emulator and run SMPTETrack?
>>
>> -ken
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