22 Dec
2004
22 Dec
'04
11:28 p.m.
Thanks for the input, I think I'm moving in the right direction at least.
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:35:56 -0500, John Check <j4strngs(a)bitless.net> wrote:
Do you practice with a metronome? If not, that would
be my first guess
as to what you're seeing when you sequence.
Not usually, and I think that is primarily what's going on with my
having a hard time laying it down ensemble-style.
You _could_ turn the click off, crank up the ticks per
quarter to the max,
jack the tempo up and just record the guide track rubato (fancy talk for
"close enough for rock&roll" (I'm figuring you know that)). Not good in
terms
of a pretty display, using the file to generate notation or a tidy SMF, but
it's approximating recording the performance on tape as far as the sequencers
temporality limitations goes. Again, I'm not sure of the exact reason you're
doing this. These things may be important, in which case you have to take a
different approach.
I did something like this and so far it's the closest I've come to
what I want. Perhaps I'll continue finessing this approach.
Step recording is another possibility, but it's
tedious.
On one try, I step-recorded the top voice. I soon realized how poor a
choice as a guide track it is, and I'm not really interested in step
recording one of the middle voices.
You didn't say if
your sequencer is auto-quantizing the input, but that can have an effect.
If your hearing playback that doesn't jibe temporally with what it sounded
like when you laid it down, i.e. tuplets are messed up, then it's either
auto-quantizing (either in or out) or you have insufficient resolution ticks
per quarter wise. Consider a tuplet that doesn't divide evenly and what
happens to the mantissa.
No auto quantization. It's not that things sound different from what I
lay down, it's just that what I lay down doesn't sound as coherent as
when it is all played at the same time. I imagine this is just a skill
to develop.
I don't need or particularly care about notation or keeping the bars
aligned - I'd be perfectly happy ditching the metronome and working in
pure time, if that works well.
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