[LAU] Muse 3.1

Tim termtech at rogers.com
Mon Jul 1 03:30:22 CEST 2019


On 6/30/19 7:21 PM, Brent Busby wrote:
> Tim <termtech at rogers.com> writes:
> 
>> On 6/28/19 10:06 AM, Brent Busby wrote:
>>> Anyone have any comments about Muse 3.1?
>>
>> [ Sound of crickets chirping, tumbleweeds rolling... ]
>>
>> That popular, eh?
> 
> Yeah, I was kind of making me wonder if I was the only one who uses it.
> 
>>> I've been on 2.1 as my main sequencer for ages.
>>
>> Ancient. Stick with 3.1.x, far superior.
>> Recommended to use the git master until next releases because
>>   it is updated almost daily with important fixes and features.
> 
> Ok I will check it out!
> 
>> Speaking of features...
>> The day after you posted this, I finished something sorely missing
>>   from MusE since day one (almost 20 years ago):
>>
>> * Comprehensive full audio and midi *latency* correction/compensation.
> 
> While impressive, I'm probably not the best person to try to sell that
> feature to.  I may actually be one of the world's only fans of what gets
> called MIDI "slop."  When the timing of everything doesn't completely
> align, and it's not perfect, that seems to complement my music, which is
> very analog and noisy and fuzzy, and I think it just makes everything
> more interesting.  I used to have a Yamaha V50 digital synth even, which
> had an underpowered CPU of some kind on it.  If you had the onboard
> sequencer send a MIDI program change command to the effects processor
> during sequence playback, there would be a noticeable stutter in
> playback as the tempo lagged, and then the reverb would kick in and
> things would continue as before, enveloped in hall reverb.  It was a
> design bug and not an intentional feature, but I loved it.  I never want
> electronic music to be too perfect.

Ha! Good point.
Sometimes a buggy feature makes an interesting noise.
Then when they 'fix' the bug, your project no longer sounds the same!

Still, wholesale latency delay is something you don't want in your
  midi recording/playback. So at least you're covered there, now ;-)

Cheers.
Tim.


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