Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] metronome-free MIDI recording
From: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki (rzewnickie_AT_rfa.org)
Date: Tue Sep 28 2004 - 19:46:29 EEST
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 07:29:23AM -0600, Hans Fugal wrote:
> I'm curious how everybody handles MIDI recording. I find it hard to
> believe that everyone records to a straight tempo using the metronome,
> only to add ritardandos and accelerandos later in some artificial way
> by editing the tempo track. That may work for some kinds of music
> (dance music perhaps), but certainly not everyone works that way.In
> particular, I'm recording organ music, which is similar to piano music
> or indeed almost any classical music in its need for expression.
> But if I turn off the metronome and record at a free tempo I find that
> the transports and bar information are more or less useless. It makes
When I worked with midigraphy in my days as a mac user I did exactly
that. I just ignored the tempo grid entirely. If I wanted to line stuff
up I just did it visually in the piano roll editor eyeballing the note
starts and stops and zooming in if I wanted to be more precise.
Obviously this approach isn't going to suit many people. But, it is one
possible, if not at all ideal, workaround. My own styles don't require
strict meter or rhythm ... so I get away with a lot more.
Some of the results are available in http://zhevny.com/audio/MGGM/. This
stuff wasn't made in linux and is currently only available in .mp3 and
is pretty cheasy (it is at least hosted on linux though :) ). If nothing
else, it might give you an idea of why you don't want to do it my way
and would be better off with a laborious approach like Dave's.
-Eric Rz.
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