Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] News about sequencers (not my own though!)
From: Eli Brandt (eli_AT_gong.music.cs.cmu.edu)
Date: la tammi 22 2000 - 14:16:59 EST
David Olofson wrote:
> And in addition to designing a new kind of GUI, I think the MIDI
> protocol has to be dropped to really rival the trackers in the areas
> they still have significant advantages. (Such as building complex
> loops with lots of samples and effects - programming that on a
> sequencer + a sampler is nothing but frustrating, even with a good
> editor...)
A lot of music you can represent as MIDI, but only in roundabout ways.
So you can't _edit_ it as MIDI without a lot of pain.
I'd design my editor around whatever musical representation I found
perspicuous, and then define translations into MIDI. Maybe you want
to control each note, so in MIDI each one goes on its own channel.
Maybe you edit a control voltage and then apply it to either the
volume controller or the note-on velocities -- these are two different
sorts of things in MIDI, but you are freed from having to think about
MIDI.
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