On 3/16/01 2:05 AM, "Irv Kalb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> grimmwerks: what would you suggest? Your "drumulator" is very
> similar to what I want to do.
Hey Irv -
Unfortunately I didn't go down ANY of your routes really ;)
I played around with Beatnik's metaevent (and Ian Chia, the strongarm of the
Beanik lingo world, is probably going to chime in), but I found it not to
fire very consistently; or, more accurately, it might have fired very
consisitently but there was a bit of a delay in director's ability to hear
and implement that call...so if there was a lot of things to do it could
really get sloppy.
The drumulator is the idea at it's most basest; since I knew that Beatnik
could handle 8 instances, each instance having 16 midi channels, and 56
tracks of midi info (again, keep in mind I've been doing midi since 86 or
so, so it may be easier for me to conceptualize a lot of this), I decided
that the easist way to do the drumulator was just to have it all in the
track information, like so: (- being no note, X being a midi note, t being
'track', m being midi channel):
t1m1: X-------
t2m1: -X------
T3M1: --X-----
T4M1: ---X----
T5M1: ----X---
T6M1: -----X--
T7M1: ------X-
T8M1: -------X
Pretty simple eh? Then all I'm doing is on each radio button allowing the
track to be unmuted, each instrument being the midi channel (so pans and
volume for the midi channel would work for each instrument).
So in essence following this you'd have to guess every possible
outcome...which has limitations obviously. But there might also be ways of
offsetting a beatnik instance from each other as well getting the tempo and
dividing my the measure, etc if need be.
I did find that recording mixer stuff was very tight (take a look at
www.dj-hurricane.com or else grimmwerks.com/portfolio/tvt/hurricane/)
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