On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:34:16 -0600 (CST)
Brent Busby <brent@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, david wrote:
>
> > Brent Busby wrote:
> >> Sometimes I do like to turn off the bars/beats/ticks ruler in Ardour,
> >> forget about quantizing (or throw sequencing out the window entirely),
> >> and just record, and let the quarter note pulse come from me. Then I
> >> can just record layers over it. It's almost as free as 4-track
> >> cassette...but *much* better audio quality...
> >
> > That's sort of like me. I'm horrible at deciding beforehand just how
> > fast a piece should be, or what time signature it should use. (I'm still
> > trying to figure out the time signature of the little riff in the
> > improvisation I posted a few weeks ago - and I've been playing that riff
> > for 4-5 years now.) So I'll arm a track in Rosegarden and just start
> > playing - then have to sort through the resulting mess when I've finally
> > played my way to the time/tempo the song wants.
> >
> > Perhaps I should request a new feature in Rosegarden: a "no time
> > signature" mode. Just let the notes come in as they may - and clean it
> > up afterwards.
> >
> > I just asked about that on the Rosegarden-users list, will see what
> > comes of it.
>
> In the early 90's, there was a hardware sequencer, the Alesis MMT8, that
> was very popular and is still used by some people today, just because it
> was capable of recording a single, open-ended sequence as long as your
> whole song. (And of course, you could do that with quantization off...)
> If you ended up with a sequence 684 "bars" long, fine. And who says
> your playing even had to pay any attention to where the machine thought
> the measure lines in the 684 sequencer bars were?
>
> I think something like this could still be very popular, because not
> everybody who sequences is always sequencing dance music with robotic
> timing. (I do like techno, but that's not all I'm interested in.)
> Often all people want the sequencer to be is a free-form Midi event
> generator. Just let the humans worry about tempo and beats...
>
You can do this with Rosegarden ... See my other post!
-- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-userReceived on Sun Dec 13 00:15:05 2009
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