Folderol wrote: > 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! > > Next to non-sequencer, there is epichord (http://evanr.infinitymotel.net/epichord/) which might be good for fast composing. And you might need to make some scripts before you gonna compose: http://digitaldub.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/linux-audio-session-scripting/ \r _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
