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

Steiny eric.steinberg at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 23:16:27 UTC 2011


How 'bout KeyKit? Possibly more functionality than you want, but judging from how it runs on my P2 laptop, it should run plenty fast on your netbook.

On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:13, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 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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