Re: [LAU] multitrack export midi type 0 (gramophone2) issue

From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net>
Date: Sun Feb 21 2016 - 00:44:56 EET

On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:01:45 +0000, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
>qtractor does not support polyrythmic sequences though. it isn't that
>smart you may say ;)

Actually Qtractor does support it, you just need to use a reasonable
recording technique :p.

IIRC, while the Cubase sequencer for the Atari supported polyrhythm, it
is dropped for the Windows sequencer. OTOH nowadays sequencers at least
provide weak audio track support, so to have some sound effects at
fixed times, it would be possible to record them as audio tracks and
then to change the MIDI tempo. To edit real polyrhythm, when ever you
want, the audio track workaround isn't good, but how often do we
compose polyrhythm music? Who is able to name offhand a few
known polyrythmic compositions? Assumed somebody is able to name some
compositions, how many of those compositions are computer music, that
was really composed with several parallel BPMs and not just experimental
compositions more or less without countable beats?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheik_Yerbouti#Writing_and_recording

There are other known popular and even classic compositions and some
folk music is based on it, but it's music played by humans and not by
computers. However, this even could be done with Qtractor, by simply
ignoring the sequencer's meter and recording with a high resolution, IOW
by using the sequence in the same way as an anlog tape recorder,
without quantisation, without a metronome given by the computer.
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