30 Nov
2006
30 Nov
'06
4:48 p.m.
Hello James,
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 13:21, James Stone wrote:
Labeling should work.
Being a MusE
developer and long time user, I'm merely asking as to
understand
what other users lack in MusE that we might fix
to make it better (apart
from
mediocre publicity...).
This questions is definately not just directed at Carlo.
Hi Robert!
I really like Muse, but for me it fits a different niche than seq24.
Personally I would always choose Muse over RG (KDE is not my fave). But I
think RG and MusE (and cubase and cakewalk etc.) are really let down by
their very weak editing of loops. If there was some way to edit specify
loops (drum or baseline) and then sequence them in a non-clunky way, I
think it would be great. The way I work with it is often to design the
loops as single bars then copy-paste them, but it is not a particularly
easy way of working (compared to seq24) and the labeling of the bars is
quite fiddly (if it works at all.. I can't really remember). For sequencing
non loop-based music (classical, jazz etc.) then I think MusE is really
nice.
Regarding sequencing repetitive stuff I agree.
Though for repetitive midi stuff there's actually a part type called clone
that allows to place one midi part on several places, which can be useful
(though there is a very elusive bug that causes it to misbehave from time to
time).
For audio there's lots that can be added to help with loops. Beat detection,
time stretching, etc..
Two things I would really like to see in MusE: DSSI support,
Which is coming in 1.0.
and some way
of remembering what the connections were to individual tracks (just having
the ability to associate a longer piece of text with each track would be
nice - it would enable me to write what instrument that track was driving,
and what preset I need to load into that instrument.. maybe LASH will be
able to do this sometime, but with the lack of support from most software
it is not really an option now).
Ok, basically a comment field for all mixer items. .. And why stop there, it
could be added for parts also.
Interesting ideas, thanks!
/Robert
James
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