lördagen den 31 januari 2004 23.23 skrev Florin Andrei:
I know there were some discussions not too long ago
about sequencers,
but i'd like to ask the questions in a slightly different way.
I'm looking for a decent sequencer for Linux. It's not required to be a
"Logic/Cubase/Pro Tools/Sonar killer" (although it would be great :-D),
but i'd like it to perform a few basic tasks well.
On account of MusE:
Must-have features:
- record and play multiple MIDI tracks
check
- record and play multiple sound tracks
check
- MIDI and sound must be able to blend freely in a
project (i.e. record
and play arbitrary combinations of MIDI and sound tracks simultaneously)
check
- overdub multiple sound tracks into one (or two)
check (not sure what you mean about two, stereo?)
- fine-grained MIDI editing (edit individual
keystrokes' parameters such
as velocity, timing adjustments)
check
- automatic tool to move slightly off-beat keystrokes
to a fixed
temporal grid which is defined in the program (therefore making "perfect
performance" timing-wise)
check
- sound editing abilities (features such as "snap
to pass-through-zero"
would be nice)
not yet I think
- LADSPA filters
check
- play a metronome through a MIDI or sound channel
check
- works with JACK and ALSA
check
- does not crash
well...um....perhaps? :)
Nice-to-have features:
- the editors (MIDI, sound) and, generally, the whole app must be
user-friendly and inspiration-friendly :-) (when the inspiration
possesses you, it's not a good thing to start fumbling through some
crappy interface and make a thousand mouse clicks just to do some
trivial operation - every second lost is precious)
This is very much from person to
person... MusE is not always intuitive so you
always know how to do things, which might be a problem for new users (asking
on the mailinglist is recommended), though, when you know how things are done
it's generally done swiftly... my opinion, of course.
- music notation
at the moment yes, but I think
it is removed in cvs, don't know if it will
reappear. There are external packages that do a good job with this anyways.
- some kind of interoperability with related apps
of course, lots.
Essentially, in the free software world, it's either Muse or Rosegarden.
Has any of you extensive experience with both applications? Which one is
a better fit for the description above?
Being very much biased I'm not the one
to compare, it works the way I like it
in muse...
I suggest you try both to get a feel for it yourself. In the end it's the
details that either work for you or against you.
/Robert