Re: Bitwig: what we can learn from it

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Am 01.04.2014 23:00, schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
> On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 22:29 +0200, Hartmut Noack wrote:
>> 1.) play a few tracks free jazz or 12-tone style compositions and
>> apply some evil fantasy regarding sound and you have something
>> that would be considered "avantgarde" with bitwig the same as
>> easy.
> 
> MIDI wasn't made to play Ornette Coleman compositions.

That is one of the reasons, the Bitwig-devs hate MIDI from the heart
and have replaced it internally with a format based on OSC. In fact,
Bitwig is not even a real MIDI-sequencer, it is a OSC-sequencer that
can translate incoming MIDI and send/store it.

> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNbD1JIH344
> 
> And what's called (Free) Jazz nowadays usually has nothing to do
> with music. They even call Mike Patton a Jazz or at least an avant
> garde musician, for my taste he isn't a musician at all. MIDI was
> made to produce pop music and Linux MIDI sequencers have several
> weak points, that other MIDI sequencers don't have. 12-tone is
> something different, but you likely will use hard disk recording
> and less MIDI for 12-tone music too.
> 
>> It works most easy when you are out for 4/4 stuff structured as
>> common in pop.
> 
> And common for many, if not most Jazz compositions too. However,
> you can use MIDI for 7/8 as good as for 4/4. Perhaps you used the
> wrong sequencers or I didn't notice that your post is just an April
> Fools' joke.
> 
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