[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[Hartmut Noack]

Am 01.04.2014 23:00, schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
> On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 22:29 +0200, Hartmut Noack wrote:
>> 1.) play a few tracks free jazz or 12-tone style compositions and apply
>> some evil fantasy regarding sound and you have something that would be
>> considered "avantgarde" with bitwig the same as easy.
> 
> MIDI wasn't made to play Ornette Coleman compositions.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNbD1JIH344
> 
> And what's called (Free) Jazz nowadays usually has nothing to do with
> music. They even call Mike Patton a Jazz or at least an avant garde
> musician, for my taste he isn't a musician at all. MIDI was made to
> produce pop music and Linux MIDI sequencers have several weak points,
> that other MIDI sequencers don't have. 12-tone is something different,
> but you likely will use hard disk recording and less MIDI for 12-tone
> music too.

Of course you would play it and record to hard disk and that was what I
meant. Could it be, that some people in fact think, that Bitwig is
MIDI-only? It is not even really MIDI but OSC as I mentined before and
of course it is a full-featured HD-recorder too (though not as strongly
optimized for HD-recording as Ardour)

> 
>> It works most easy when you are out for 4/4 stuff structured as common
>> in pop.
> 
> And common for many, if not most Jazz compositions too. However, you can
> use MIDI for 7/8 as good as for 4/4. Perhaps you used the wrong
> sequencers or I didn't notice that your post is just an April Fools'
> joke.

Or perhaps you did not have a look upon the program yourself or maybe
have lost the ability to thing a bit like Hannibal Lecter.

I said it is *most easy* to work with *standard* 4/4 loops in Bitwig,
and *not* that that is the only thing you can do. And it is so, because
Bitwig comes with a Gigabyte of sampled loops, that are exactly that:
standardized 4/4 segments for popular mainstream electronica.

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