Re: [LAU] standalone midi editor

alex stone wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Patrick Shirkey
> <pshirkey@email-addr-hidden <mailto:pshirkey@email-addr-hidden>> wrote:
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> alex stone wrote:
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> From time to time, as the inspiration comes, i find the need
> for a quick, simple, midi editor.
> I currently use RG, and it does a fine job, but my question is:
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> Is there, in Linux, a standalone midi editor, which can handle
> banks, patches, event changes etc... for editing a couple or
> few bars.
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> I record quite a bit these days, straight from LS into Ardour,
> but more complicated passages, requiring patch changes, (i.e.
> Up and down bows, NR and R samples, etc..) and are unplayable
> live from a keyboard, need to be 'constructed' within a midi
> editor.
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> As these runs, phrases, etc, are often only a bar or two long,
> i wonder if a simple standalone midi editor would suffice.
> (i.e. A standalone matrix editor, with the ability to apply
> event changes.)
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> I would then record the edited phrase or run, and keep the
> midi files generated in the Ardour project folder.
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> Is there such a thing?
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> I don't know of a stand alone app for this purpose. However it is
> probably already possible with ardour 3.0 if you want to play with
> the svn version.
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> Cheers.
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> --
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> Patrick Shirkey
> Boost Hardware Ltd
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> Patrick,
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> The 3.0 SVN doesn't build/install for me at the moment, but the
> installation process, as i understand it, is being worked on.
>
> OK,
> here's a short list of suggested features, in case there IS a
> standalone midi editor, or a dev is thinking of something along these
> lines.
>

Have you tried non-sequencer?

http://non-sequencer.tuxfamily.org/

> Midi keyboard, qwerty, and CC input (for keystrokes as well)
> Normal matrix view of a max of 8 bars. (User definable number of bars
> as default, but can be increased on the fly)
> Event list view, and tabbable on the fly with the matrix view, by
> keystroke, as well as mouse. (The RG event list editor is excellent,
> so these parameters and layout would be useful)
> Single track.
> 16 midi channels, with a popup note properties dialog (keystrokable),
> in which the user can edit by bank/patch/channel.
> Able to import, and export mid files.
> Jackmidi port in.
> Tempo map, ala RG.
> Able to save to a directory. (Possible use being saving the mid files
> in the Ardour project directory.)
> Able to add controller lanes, with bezier curves for finetune volume
> and expression.
> Quantize for those who want it.
> Able to move edit cursor by grid definition.
> Keystrokes for moving from note to note (forward and back) for
> editing/insertion/removal purposes. Each note becomes active/editable
> in turn, with the previous note becoming inactive as it ceases to
> become the focus. (Seperate keystrokes/mouse marquee function, for any
> desire to make more than one note active at once. Keystroke example
> being hold shift down while navigating with left/right arrows, which
> 'adds' notes to the active range.)
> Default keystrokes up/down for parameter changes, example being
> velocity. If CC numbers can be make keystrokable, then the same
> parameter change up/down keystrokes could be used for other CC
> controller definitions as well. Other examples include, Volume (using
> a keystroke to define volume as the 'active' CC control), patch
> changes (Same keystroke framework. Select the patch change keystroke,
> and that becomes 'editable', with up and down keys.)
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> Etc...
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> Alex.
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> Parchment Studios (It started as a joke...)

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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
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