On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:50:00 +0100, Tim Goetze <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[Angel de Vicente]
Is there any MIDI editor that would let me do something like this? If
not, do you think it could be easily implemented? If so, I could perhaps
contribute with some programming, but I would need some pointers as to
where to start (I have never done any music/MIDI programming, though I
have plenty of experience programming in other fields).
I don't know of a MIDI sequencer that offers this (not that I know
many to begin with) but I think it's a really neat idea for tackling
the old problem of "how can I reliably input stuff way beyond my
pianistic abilities and still have it played with a human quality".
To get a quick working prototype, you could use the system commands
arecordmidi and aplaymidi to get the data and use a high-level
language like python with a MIDI file reader/writer module to process.
Since you're only interested in relative timing, it's not a big
problem if you can't get the record and playback clocks to be in
perfect sync when you want to record over the track playing.
Old sequencers had many abilities we don't have today anymore, however, it
e.g. still is possible to play wrong notes by a MIDI keyboard, but with
the wanted velocity and timing (assumed MIDI jitter isn't an issue ;) and
then to move the wrong notes to correct them. Or you play left and right
hand one after the other, instead of playing them at the same time.
Depending to the composition and to the practice it could sound natural.
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