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

Hartmut Noack zettberlin at linuxuse.de
Sat Feb 12 01:08:20 UTC 2011


Am 12.02.2011 00:12, schrieb 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.

No offence ment but what 1.6 GHz/1GB RAM machine is that?

I had Seq24 running on a Toshiba Laptop with 1GHz PIII and 256RAM and it 
was running perfectly OK. A collegue used it professionally on a 800 MHz 
Celeron with 256 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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