Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability
From: David Olofson (david_AT_gardena.net)
Date: Thu Jun 20 2002 - 01:19:18 EEST
On Wednesday 12 June 2002 16.18, Billy Biggs wrote:
[...]
> But that's sort of the thought behind ttrk: be a useful hardware
> sequencer. I can't stand piano roll views, they just don't make
> sense for the music I'm writing. I usually write electronic dance
> music where I want to see everything that happens on one beat all
> at once,
There *are* piano rolls that will allow you to view and edit multiple
tracks at a time, but as you might guess, it doesn't work half as
well as it sounds at first.
And then we have controller data editing... *aargh!*
> and it is _essential_ that I be able to edit the music as
> it's playing: start looping one pattern and tweak it until I like
> it.
I do that sometimes as well - but obviously, there's a lot of jumping
between tracks when doing it with a traditional GUI sequencer. *heh*
> Different styles for different types of music really.
I dunno... I do what I feel like WRT style and sound, and I don't
like applications that try to prevent me from mixing different ways
of working. Different tools for different jobs - but that doesn't
mean you're supposed to use a single tool for each song. :-)
> I also
> think it's because when I started writing music, it was using
> either a tracker or a hardware sequencer (at the time the Roland
> MV-30).
That's quite possible - but OTOH, I started out with trackers,
eventually got into GUI sequencers, and then couldn't really go back.
Initially, I had major problems doing any real work in a GUI
sequencer, but now it's the other way around...
//David
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