29 Jul
2016
29 Jul
'16
8:06 p.m.
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 19:43:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 13:28:04 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
PS:
I suspect that Dave is the kind of guy, who not wants to play random
notes, that fit to the chords. I suspect he has got an idea, but not
the ability to intuitive play the right note on a keyboard. IRC Dave
is a guitarist, too, so if he's playing the guitar, he most likely is
able to play exactly the notes he wants to play. Assumed I'm not
mistaken, if Dave should test a device, then a guitar to MIDI thingy.
If I would be super-reach, I would test such a modern guitar to MIDI
thingy. Unfortunately I'm not super-rich, so I stay with the "note by
note" approach.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 6:12 AM, Dave Phillips
<dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com>
wrote:
Composing note by note is the only way, because a musician wants to
play within a scale, but also to borrow notes from another scale.
During composing it's not that simple, that you just could edit a
keyboard, to provide only the desired notes, since it could be, that
you need to borrow additional notes, but you don't know this in the
first place.
I'm not a keyboarder, with similar keyboard playing abilities as Dave.
I'm the keyboarder who has one hand ;). I'm a guitarist, but I'm using
a keyboard much when using the computer to compose. I already own and
tested tools, that allow to define a scale with borrowed notes. For a
real musician such tools are nothing, but crap.
The lead was composed note by note, as is my usual way. Imagine a
keyboardist with no hands, that's the level of playing ability I
have on the musical keyboard. :) I do envy the real players here
like Steve D and Luigi.
Buy yourself an Ableton Push 2. You can use it today with Bitwig, and
next month with Ardour 5. Use it in "in-key" mode and every note you
hit will be in key. It is like magic! :)