Louigi Verona wrote:
It is a different situation when you know that EVERYONE goes
through this. It is an absolutely different
story when you know for a fact that users of another operating
system have good working solutions of the
problem you are having. And so not having automation is a bit
weird. As shown above, automation is
essential in certain very widely spread types of electronic
music when you need to turn many knobs at
the same time to achieve the result. Asking 15 of your friends
to help you do this during recording is
a bit too much I think though it might make for a good record
into the book of records.
It's not true that this kind of automation really is done by heavy
mixing. Yes, e.g. when I used my Atari ST and Cubase I had a
Window with MIDI SysEx controllers e.g. for my Oberheim
Matrix-1000. A separated MIDI port and that it was. This kind of
automation is missing for Linux. But I wish to have some examples
off all that music that reportedly makes a lot of usage of
automation for the mixer. There isn't much of that music. Doing
this is unusual, it very often is done by inexperienced musicians
and hobby engineers because they guess it's the way to do it like
this, once they are more experienced they won't do it by
automation any more.
Ralf
Hey Ralf!
I do not think you understood me. I am speaking about automating
parameters of various synths. If you want the cutoff frequency to
change or wabble and at the same time have the resonance move and all
of that you want to feed into a controller that would LFO all that
against the volume of another sound so that both come in and out - all
of this takes lots of automation to get to the result. How can this be
possible without automation I do not know - only if you ask several
people to help you and train them to perform automations in real time.
Louigi.
For this you need separated MIDI ports, because of the traffic for
SysEx, but there are no other limitations, because it's done by SysEx
there e.g. is no 7 or 14 bit limitation. We do have MIDI, the rest is up
to the synth and of having GUIs added to the sequencer, like there are
for the Atari Cubase. At the moment you need to get SysEx data e.g. by
recording it, unfortunately modules like the Oberheim Matrix-1000 do not
have any knobs to send the data. I dunno, but perhaps a synth like
Phasex is able to send the SysEx data to the sequencer. You could record
1000th of knob movements. I don't see any issues when doing it this way.