10 Apr
2004
10 Apr
'04
4:17 a.m.
On Saturday 10 April 2004 01:18, Dave Robillard wrote:
I agree completely that a straight plain MIDI
sequencer is needed. Not so
sure about the no tempo idea though. Editing MIDI without the concept of
tempo and/or bars would be a most horrible thing. Ardour sync through some
means is definitely essential (and the thing that makes the current stable
version of MusE essentially useless to me). I don't know about "simple",
except the fact that it's just MIDI. I'd like a feature complete MIDI
sequencer (in gtk), not one that's sucked down feature-wise.
Well if you can get over your gtk fixation then there's also Rosegarden of
course. Which offers JACK transport and hence "Ardour sync" (sic).
Writing a multitrack recorder is a duplication of
effort - we already have
one (and I severely doubt anyone is going to be surpassing ardour in
quality any time soon).
We don't, however, have a just-MIDI sequencer, with all the nice features a
MIDI sequencer needs (like advanced control editing, etc.) The next
version of MuSe could be quite good, but it has all that audio stuff
holding back development, plus it's Qt of course..
Well I don't know quite what to say here..
(Random thought) A MIDI sequencer where you can draw
control curves over
the tracks (like ardour volume and whatnot) would be very cool.. esp. for
electronic music (like, say, trance) when the control parameters are as
important as the notes themselves
Both MusE and Rosegarden support this.
The ideal is that just because MIDI data is simple, writing a MIDI sequencer
is somehow a trivial effort. You'd notice from the lack of contenders to
that crown that it evidently isn't. I'd suggest before anyone attempts to
reinvent the wheel that they fully understand what's trying to be
accomplished elsewhere and join forces.
Anyway, what about BEAST? That's gtkmm or GTK and does MIDI does it not?
It's amazing actually - I take a six month break from LAD after the peak of
those horrendous soft synth "architecture" discussions (whatever that acronym
was) and I find the same old (I'm afraid to say) ill-informed arguments
banging around. It reminds me of the USENET days. Death of the internet
predicted etc.
Do you think, just like the old USENET days, someone should write a LAD FAQ
and post it monthly? I think it'd greatly increase the clue quotient.
R