16 Dec
2009
16 Dec
'09
7:32 a.m.
Folderol wrote:
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:34:16 -0600 (CST)
Brent Busby <brent(a)keycorner.org> wrote:
Next to non-sequencer, there is epichord
(http://evanr.infinitymotel.net/epichord/) which might be good for fast
composing.
And you might need to make some scripts before you gonna compose:
http://digitaldub.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/linux-audio-session-scripting/
\r
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, david wrote:
You can do this with Rosegarden ... See my other post!
Brent Busby wrote:
In the early 90's, there was a hardware sequencer, the Alesis MMT8,
that
was very popular and is still used by some people today, just because it
was capable of recording a single, open-ended sequence as long as your
whole song. (And of course, you could do that with quantization off...)
If you ended up with a sequence 684 "bars" long, fine. And who says
your playing even had to pay any attention to where the machine thought
the measure lines in the 684 sequencer bars were?
I think something like this could still be very popular, because not
everybody who sequences is always sequencing dance music with robotic
timing. (I do like techno, but that's not all I'm interested in.)
Often all people want the sequencer to be is a free-form Midi event
generator. Just let the humans worry about tempo and beats...
Sometimes I do like to turn off the
bars/beats/ticks ruler in Ardour,
forget about quantizing (or throw sequencing out the window entirely),
and just record, and let the quarter note pulse come from me. Then I
can just record layers over it. It's almost as free as 4-track
cassette...but *much* better audio quality...
That's sort of like me. I'm horrible at deciding beforehand just
how
fast a piece should be, or what time signature it should use. (I'm still
trying to figure out the time signature of the little riff in the
improvisation I posted a few weeks ago - and I've been playing that riff
for 4-5 years now.) So I'll arm a track in Rosegarden and just start
playing - then have to sort through the resulting mess when I've finally
played my way to the time/tempo the song wants.
Perhaps I should request a new feature in Rosegarden: a "no time
signature" mode. Just let the notes come in as they may - and clean it
up afterwards.
I just asked about that on the Rosegarden-users list, will see what
comes of it.