David W. Fenton wrote:
On 4 Nov 2005 at 4:38, dhbailey wrote:
spent all the time making it all fancy and adding a redundant Mixer
View which simply recreates stuff we could already do in Instrument
List
I thought the mixer allowed you to dynamically change controller
settings over time. Is it not able, for example, to record volume
changes into playback? That is, can't you playback the file and move
the sliders up and down and have those recorded into the playback?
If not, then I'd agree that the mixer is completely useless.
I will say that I've finally learned how to manage to enter
continuous data successfully with the MIDI tool. The key is setting
the magnification very high and for crescendos/diminuendos, keeping
your start/end points for a scaled passage evenly aligned with the
tick marks representing beats. It can also help to have your music
spaced according to time signature before starting.
But it's still a very clunky way to input data that ought to be
captured with sliders recorded into playback. Is that not the way
real sequencers do it?
No, the motions of the sliders aren't recordable. Their effects are if
you're recording the performance in real-time, but the actual motions of
the sliders aren't recorded as they are in many (most?) sequencer
applications these days, separate from the midi data or the audio output.
You can slide them all you want to during one playback, and the next
playback you'll still have to move them again to achieve the same effect.
It's a convenient way to try things out or to affect the playback while
you're recording the audio in real time, but what you do with the
sliders isn't recorded for future playback purposes, the way that edited
midi data remains when you save the file.
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David H. Bailey
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