On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:34:16 -0600 (CST) Brent Busby <brent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, david wrote: > > > Brent Busby wrote: > >> Sometimes I do like to turn off the bars/beats/ticks ruler in Ardour, > >> forget about quantizing (or throw sequencing out the window entirely), > >> and just record, and let the quarter note pulse come from me. Then I > >> can just record layers over it. It's almost as free as 4-track > >> cassette...but *much* better audio quality... > > > > That's sort of like me. I'm horrible at deciding beforehand just how > > fast a piece should be, or what time signature it should use. (I'm still > > trying to figure out the time signature of the little riff in the > > improvisation I posted a few weeks ago - and I've been playing that riff > > for 4-5 years now.) So I'll arm a track in Rosegarden and just start > > playing - then have to sort through the resulting mess when I've finally > > played my way to the time/tempo the song wants. > > > > Perhaps I should request a new feature in Rosegarden: a "no time > > signature" mode. Just let the notes come in as they may - and clean it > > up afterwards. > > > > I just asked about that on the Rosegarden-users list, will see what > > comes of it. > > In the early 90's, there was a hardware sequencer, the Alesis MMT8, that > was very popular and is still used by some people today, just because it > was capable of recording a single, open-ended sequence as long as your > whole song. (And of course, you could do that with quantization off...) > If you ended up with a sequence 684 "bars" long, fine. And who says > your playing even had to pay any attention to where the machine thought > the measure lines in the 684 sequencer bars were? > > I think something like this could still be very popular, because not > everybody who sequences is always sequencing dance music with robotic > timing. (I do like techno, but that's not all I'm interested in.) > Often all people want the sequencer to be is a free-form Midi event > generator. Just let the humans worry about tempo and beats... > You can do this with Rosegarden ... See my other post! -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
