28 Nov
2006
28 Nov
'06
10:55 p.m.
Hi Carmen,
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 03:54:50PM -0500, carmen wrote:
Those screenshots look awesome.
I have used Purdata for sequencing stuff myself, and have created
abstractions for doing all kinds of envelope stuff and written two CDs
worth of tunes in just Puredata with no additional software. I think I
understand it's raw power by now. :)
For this project though, I *want* to be bound to MIDI-enforced
notions of what is a track, what is a folder of tracks, what is a
region, etc.. I don't want to have full access to the data for further
massaging/accessing. I want to sit down and just play without having to
spend ages patching together permanancy solutions with my right brain
whilst playing music with my left brain. I am trying something different
that I've never tried before, and pure Pd is not useful for what I want
to do here (though it is useful for a lot of other music I write).
That's cool; I use something very similar when do I
knob-tweaking-experimental-algorithmic-music and it's lots of fun!
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Best,
Chris.
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chris(a)mccormick.cx
http://mccormick.cx
Puredata's
strong point is not sequencing and notation,
sure but then neither is it the forte of linux audio software in general. for sequencing
i definitely dig Pd+Tk a lot more than eithe seq24 or Dino, since youve got full access to
the data for further massaging/accessing in unconventional ways without being bound to a
clicky-clicky GTK workflow.. and arent bound to MIDI-enforced notions of what is a track,
what is a folder of tracks, what is a region, etc..
http://replic.net/~ix/pr/seq.png for note/part editing, http://replic.net/~ix/pr/lg.gif
for streaming control-data. just grab /extensions/gui/ix/{mat,lg}.wid and [widget]..plug
the xlets into PDContainer, Pool, or the storage of your choice and get editing...using
del, metro, pipe, or what have you for playback.. 
> so what
> I need is an application that I can send midi notes and controller data
> through, which will remember them and pass them on to Puredata
for this i like rradical-style figure-8 abstraction to timestamp events and shuttle them
onto storage - you can alligator-clip them anywhere in a patch, instead of having to keep
track of midiout's and range remapping into/out-of midi and the subsequent resolution
loss..