On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:21:01 +0000 Angel de Vicente <angelv@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Angel de Vicente <angelv@xxxxxx> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > my first post to the list. I hope MIDI issues are appropriate for > > it. I'm an amateur classical guitar player and I'm starting to use the > > computer as a "partner" to play duets, trios, etc. > > > > At the moment I just enter a score in either GNU Denemo or Rosegarden, > > then just tweak a little bit the tempo and the velocities to make it > > more musical and then I play along with that. But the whole thing is > > very time consuming, so I'm looking for an alternative way for note > > input. I am hoping for something like the following: > > > > 1. I just enter the notes, regardless of the duration of each of them. > > 2. Then I go into a second phase, where (using the PC keyboard or a MIDI > > keyboard) I just worry about the rhythm (the note durations). Every > > time I press a new key in the keyboard the program would play the > > next note from the ones entered in step 1. and record its duration. I > > don't care about how the score will look with these durations. I just > > want an easy way to create a more musical accompaniment. This way, at > > this step I only have to worry about the durations of each note. > > OK, so in the end I did a proof-of-concept implementation of this with > Pure Data, and it works really great. I put it in recording mode and I > enter the notes (for the moment no chords) without worrying about > durations. Then I go into recording-duration mode, and then regardless > of which key I press in the keyboard, the pitches to be played come from > the previously entered list, so I only have to worry about playing them > with the rhythm and velocity (MIDI velocity) I want. > > When I sent this request to the list I had only heard about Pure Data, > but I had no idea of what it really was. I just followed about 1-2 hours > of video tutorials in YouTube, and I was able to write this little > application in a very quick time. Kudos to Pure Data, I think I'm going > to be using it quite a lot in the future. Sounds nice. Any chance you could upload what you made somewhere? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
