[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > > 3.delete unwanted note, so you are only dealing with
> > > > accents and
> > > > possibly a few solid bars of notes
> > > > 4.grab all those notes, then raise them a 3rd or 5th
>
> > Not very many... 2 jobs, 1 trip to the edit screen, and
> > a voice reassignment...and I don't have to scroll around
> > w/ a mouse!
>
> 2 jobs... how is it you manage to go through and delete the unwanted
> notes at various points within a 16 bar phrase while being able to start
> the track right before the notes to listen to them and decide if they
> should stay - without doing this one note at a time at the edit screen?
Your beef seems to be with the edit screen. If you hate it that much,
then you should use software sequencers. I don't have a problem with it.
(BTW you can press play while in the edit screen to hear the track while
you edit, if you want to hear your edits in context).
Much of the power of any sequencer is in the fine editing of individual
events, and in my humble whatever the text edit screen is more efficent
for the task than (e.g.) piano-roll editing. But that's my preference-
I prefer linux to windows, too ;-).
>
> Thats my main thing with the box - I can do more when I visualize the
> whole track - I love the idea of breaking things down into chunks and
> being able to have a visual association of the progressions, changes and
> structure. I DO like the fact that it isn't a computer - and it gives me
> time away from the machine! Lastly, i'll toss in that my music in the
> last year has become very programmed oriented - I spend a lot of time
> programming out the changes and breaks by hand - which, at least for me
> and my style, doesn't work so much on the RM1x. I like a high degree of
> variation in my tracks (generally) - they are what I call, "Low
> Attention Span Compliant" - and are great for kids with A.D.D. :-)
I'll concede that if you have huge numbers of variations in a small time frame,
the pattern mode in the rm1x may be too limiting. I'm not doing songs like
that yet but if I did, I'd work out the basics in pattern mode and do the
variations in song mode. The DnB stuff I've done (experimentally only, it's
not my style) involved only a handful of breaks, layered over each other w/
different loop start times and durations to create dense layered drums. I had
no problem doing it on the rm1x.
But hey, do what works for you. That was the point of my post. I don't
think you should tout software sequencers as an ultimate solution to the
problems of arrangement- but if works for you, use it.
