Hallo, Richard K. Ingalls hat gesagt: // Richard K. Ingalls wrote: > 1) I want to have many sounds available for live playing (via MIDI) on > my keyboard. That's the top priority. Lots of sounds. Good quality > sounds. I'm thinking a sample playback machine or sound fonts > (right?). Can't I even achieve BETTER sounds with my PC than with a > very expensive new sound module? The most important question is: What kind of sounds do you want? If you want to sound like a Piano, no computer will ever sound better that the real thing. If you want experimental sounds, then some kind of modular synth would be a good way to go, something like Pd, Suppercollider or Csound. Those also will offer very high flexibility not possible with most other systems. > 2) I'd like to be able to sequence those great sounds. It would be > even better if I could use the sequencer WHILE playing live sounds > through this machine. Also "sequencing" is a word, that's not very concrete. Do you just want to play some prececorded midi snippets or do you want something with more intelligence, something that can react somehow intelligently to your or someone else's playing? In the first case, you'd probably get aways with some Midi sequencer like MusE or seq24, but for the other approach, you'll need a modular system again. An example of someone using the second approach live would be William Fields, who sequences very interesting things with Pd. For example the livesets on http://bill.teamtechno.com/live.php were done in a way, William describes as: Basically, my system consists of a number of "generator" patches [...]. There is one that plays MIDI files, there is one that generates patterns of notes in a given scale (which is set globally), there is one that generates chords, etc.. Each of these generators can be turned on or off, routed to any midi channel, and have a number of other parameters. Under the hood, it is simply generating, processing, and routing around <note,velocity,duration> vectors. This is done with Pd on Windows, though, but will work the same on Linux. > 3) It would be very cool to be able to edit those sounds and tweak > them. Doesn't have to be "live" though. > > MY QUESTIONS: Can I achieve these goals without too much fuss > (remember I'm a newbie)? Which "distro" (CCRMA or other?) would be > best/easiest? Do I want to go with sound fonts? What sound card > should I go with (not too expensive, ok?)? CCRMA reportedly is quite nice for newbies. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
