Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: composing with trackers

From: Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 17:50:52 EET

On 3/1/07, Kjetil S. Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> "Chuckk Hubbard":
> >
> > I've used very few trackers. I think I was turned off that the
> > default is for all notes to be the same length, and that changing the
> > number of beats in any measure seemed kind of involved.
> > If you've never written music, and you don't own any instruments, and
> > you open a program for the first time that shows you 8 divisions per
> > measure with a steady beat, you'll probably make a lot of music before
> > you discover what other options are available. Multiply this by a
> > million users, and you've got the makings of a long-term association
> > with RDM (retarded dance music). Try entering Debussy into a tracker
> > and see how intuitive it is; and yet the music itself is very easy to
> > listen to.
>
> A tracker is not necessarily a tracker. Check out radium, it doesn't
> comply to what your limited understanding of a tracker is.

Well according to the sourceforge page it isn't a tracker. So I guess
I wouldn't expect it to comply to what my understanding of a tracker
is. I will check it out.
-Chuckk

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