13 Sep
2012
13 Sep
'12
9:31 p.m.
Am 13.09.2012 18:00, schrieb Dan MacDonald:
Of course you can probably get your calculator out and make numerous
tempo changes to simulate a gradual change - I realise that but I
don't want to do that. Sequencers are supposed to make the job of
creating music easier and I don't call that workaround easy.
That is correct, to get a gradual change or frequent changes this method
is not the most easy one ...
Hi Hartmut!
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Hartmut Noack <zettberlin(a)linuxuse.de> wrote:
+1
Absolutely! The more complex the app the more customizable the GUI
should be.
Thanks for the informative text Dan!
You're (and Ralf) welcome!
Am 10.09.2012 21:47, schrieb Dan MacDonald:
In most scenarios I only want to see icons for the most commonly used
stuff. I'm normally happy if I can bind keys to the stuff I use - in
fact thats often better than an icon for me. Ideally apps should be
able to be fully used just with the mouse or just with the keyboard
and have a customisable GUI to resolve any such arguments
the full-on icon overload of Rosegarden.
While I agree that in terms of aesthetics RG is not the crown of
creation I still think, that it is better to have a lot of icons to
handle a lot of functionality than to be confronted with a good-looking
concept of a UI-designer who actually believes, he/she knows what I want
to do and how in any "reasonable" scenario ;-) A3 also currently lacks the ability
to set gradual changes in tempo
Well, that is not quite correct. Yo can set as many tempo-changes as
needed for gradual changes resolution only limited by BPM-ticks. This
method can be a bit crummy if you want to slide tempo frequently in a
track but it is in fact working OK. The only thing one could miss
regarding tempo in A3 would be some "swing/humanize" automagic I'd say...
I'm sure
Paul or someone will correct me if its no longer the case but last
time I checked you could only change tempo on the first beat of a bar
you can set it to the other beats too but not between them, thank you
for pointing me to that fact...
under A3 so if thats still the case then you may not
even be able to
fake a reasonably rapid tempo change well.
I never said MusE outclasses Ardour and nor did I say it comes close
to providing all the features of Ardour as far as audio is concerned
because it certainly does not. MusE seems more mature than A3 as a
sequencer though and if I was using external MIDI sound modules I
would likely be using MusE now as my Linux sequencer.
However, not everyone needs the high-end audio features Ardour offers
so if you do more sequencing and only make light use of audio then
MusE could be a better choice for such users than Ardour is.
Again: this is correct. But I really think, the audiotracks in Muse are
not much more than simple players for a vocaltrack or so. Thas why I
compared them to those in Orion: they where just that, simple Players.
Compared to the very nice possibilities, that Muse offers on the
MIDI-tracks, they are quite behind, I must say.
Enough about MIDI, what about audio? Reading the Ardour forums and
having spent much time in its irc channel, I know that one of the most
frequent feature requests is integrated wave editing
To be frank: I do not understand, why this feature seems to be in so big
need for some Ardour users. The non-destructive editing in A3s regions
easily competes with any wave-editor not only in the Linux-camp.
Export/consolidation-automatisms add a lot of the feel of a destructive
editor too. In a word: I use A3 as my main wave-editor already whenever
I need more than just a fast cut of a fieldrecording. The only editors I
also really use are MHWaveedit (unbeatable lean and stable) and yeah...
well forget... ;-)
and I'm sure Rui
has had more than a few requests for such a feature in qtractor too so
I'd say one of the biggest selling points of MusE is that it would
seem to be the only Linux DAW to offer integrated audio editing.
really?
To be frank once more: the audiotracks of both Muse and RG are 1995 at
best. And I did not see big progress in that field in both in many
years. Though Robert himself makes great recording of hand-played music
with Muse I still think that the audiotracks in Muse are barely usable.
Try to cut regions and loop them, try to cut and arrange some 12-16
tracks as it can be easily done in Qtractor and the same as easy and
with even much more extra-powers in Ardour. We're all
free to choose what software we use to record with. I'm very happy we
have a choice of Linux DAWs and with a few of them getting seriously
good now too.
Choice is always good. I place high hopes in Qtractor. It is sad, that
Traverso seems not to be active at the moment...
best regards
HZN