Thanks for the input, I think I'm moving in the right direction at least. On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:35:56 -0500, John Check <j4strngs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Do you practice with a metronome? If not, that would be my first guess > as to what you're seeing when you sequence. Not usually, and I think that is primarily what's going on with my having a hard time laying it down ensemble-style. > You _could_ turn the click off, crank up the ticks per quarter to the max, > jack the tempo up and just record the guide track rubato (fancy talk for > "close enough for rock&roll" (I'm figuring you know that)). Not good in terms > of a pretty display, using the file to generate notation or a tidy SMF, but > it's approximating recording the performance on tape as far as the sequencers > temporality limitations goes. Again, I'm not sure of the exact reason you're > doing this. These things may be important, in which case you have to take a > different approach. I did something like this and so far it's the closest I've come to what I want. Perhaps I'll continue finessing this approach. > Step recording is another possibility, but it's tedious. On one try, I step-recorded the top voice. I soon realized how poor a choice as a guide track it is, and I'm not really interested in step recording one of the middle voices. > You didn't say if > your sequencer is auto-quantizing the input, but that can have an effect. > If your hearing playback that doesn't jibe temporally with what it sounded > like when you laid it down, i.e. tuplets are messed up, then it's either > auto-quantizing (either in or out) or you have insufficient resolution ticks > per quarter wise. Consider a tuplet that doesn't divide evenly and what > happens to the mantissa. No auto quantization. It's not that things sound different from what I lay down, it's just that what I lay down doesn't sound as coherent as when it is all played at the same time. I imagine this is just a skill to develop. I don't need or particularly care about notation or keeping the bars aligned - I'd be perfectly happy ditching the metronome and working in pure time, if that works well. -- De gustibus non disputandum est.
