On Tuesday 06 March 2007 13:39, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 3/4/07, Louis Gorenfeld <louis.gorenfeld@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Chuck, > > In a tracker, you don't have to write in 4/4-- you can > > freely change the lengths of each pattern and even cut > It's an extra step to not write in 4/4; which is not the case > sitting at a piano. That's all I'm saying. It is the case with pretty much every computerized composition tool, though, not just trackers. If you're using your computer as anything more than a glorified tape deck (which you can get away with if you don't do a lot of overdubbing, like if you're in a band that records live or you're just a guy with a piano and nothing else.... I'm not), the programs you use to manage the structure of your music are almost invariably going to assume you're writing in 4/4 by default. I found it just as easy to transcribe this one thing I did with shifting meters (7/8, 6/8, 7/8, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8, repeat) in a tracker as I did in DOP, which was my Windows sequencer of choice at the time. In fact, I've used traditional sequencers that won't take a meter with a "numerator" greater than 6, which was always a real bummer. Rob
