Hi Lorenzo! > One oddity I've seen in Muse's piano roll (vs Rosegarden) is that it won't > play notes when you add them or edit them (esp. change their pitch, thus not > providing auditory feedback and having you rely only on the visual clue), I > think this is a shortcoming especially when using the piano roll as an > 'instrument' (imagine composing at the piano and only being able to *see* > the keys and not hearing the sound they produce...) Very good point - I just filed that as a feature request for you and as a reminder for Tim and Robert: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3567893&group_id=93414&atid=604225 Thanks! > >> Enough about MIDI, what about audio? Reading the Ardour forums and >> having spent much time in its irc channel, I know that one of the most >> frequent feature requests is integrated wave editing and I'm sure Rui >> has had more than a few requests for such a feature in qtractor too so >> I'd say one of the biggest selling points of MusE is that it would >> seem to be the only Linux DAW to offer integrated audio editing. > > Again a debated and debatable feature. There are some cases (not sure how > much they are corner) when working in Ardour that I'd like to be able to > edit a clip individually, for example to do envelope stuff without fear that > moving the clip will totally disrupt the envelope. > > That said contrary to what seems most popular consensus I would prefer > sequencers not to have audio and DAWs not to have midi. I do love jack > transport and the modularity jack offers. That probably also comes from the > fact I use Pure Data for many projects (and one couldn't thing to have a > mega-daw with daw + sequencer + effects + dataflow ...). > Just now, I am working on a video sonification project and at times I have > Rosegarden + Ardour + Pure Data with various patch windows open + the video > window (xjadeo) all talking via jack - I can test 'synthy' stuff by sending > MIDI to Pd see how it fits with the video, if I want fire up a synth (say > yuoshimi), another patch... This would clearly not work in a > single-window-windows-style application. > (Will go into detail about this once the project is done) > >> The >> editor is basic but it has the most commonly used audio editing >> features so chances are you won't have to use an external editor much, >> which is something else MusE supports, should the internal editor not >> cut it. At this point I'll mention that the only real bug I seem to >> have found in MusE so far is the audio editor doesn't work for me >> under 64 bit Deb Wheezy although it works fine under 32 bit Wheezy and >> Robert says it works for him under 64 bit Kubuntu too. >> >> I had trouble working out how to record audio into Muse at first as it >> wasn't documented at the time but the docs have been updated to cover >> this since I raised it as an issue. Just looking at this process, >> compared to Ardour and qtractor Muse is the least user friendly when >> trying to set up a track to record but once you know how its done its >> not a prob and this was the only aspect of the program that had me >> scratching my head. Otherwise I think MusE is the most user friendly >> Linux DAW and I didn't have to inquire about or refer to the manual >> for anything else. I was also disappointed that MusE 2.0 doesn't >> currently support the creation of mono audio tracks although you can >> change stereo to mono tracks and creating mono tracks is to be added >> soon. MusE allows the easy drawing of automation curves for gain, pan >> and LADSPA FX and apart from the two slight probs I've mentioned, it >> looks like I should enjoy working with MusE for audio as well as MIDI. >> >> Observant readers will have noticed that despite my praise for this >> new MusE I said "My Linux sequencer of choice at the moment is >> qtractor" because it supports native VST and LV2 plugins, it is more >> stable and lightweight than A3 and it will likely remain my choice >> until the big MusE showstopper gets resolved - plugin support. Like >> Rosegarden, MusE currently only supports LADSPA and DSSI plugins which >> is fine IF you don't use MIDI, you only use external MIDI sound >> modules OR you are happy with MusE's integrated synths / the very few >> DSSI plugins available / LASH sessions. > > Aren't you missing external software synths etc. (fluidsynth, linuxsampler > etc.)? > >> You could use Windows VST >> plugins via DSSI-VST with it but that isn't an option I'm interested >> in nor would anyone else who is concerned about plugin performance and >> stability care much for DSSI-VST. > > brrrr :) > > [...] > > A final remark on sequencing and midi editing. One think I really don't like > about any sequencer out there, and which clearly has been copied by Cubase, > is the idea of 'clip' for midi. While the concept makes sense in audio DAWs > I always found it limiting... It might be because my first sequencer was > Cakewalk Apprentice for DOS and it is the way the subsequent Cakewalk family > handled it: but no clips just the possibility of unlimited midi feels much > 'spacious' and 'creatively cosy'... > > Lorenzo. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
