You might want to look at jack transport. Then you can use something like rosegarden with ardour and not have the limitations you are speaking of.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [LAD] LADI From: Louigi Verona <[email protected]> To: rosea grammostola <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: 12/20/09 13:30 > Alex Stone: > > I do electronic music. Which means I cannot just "record" a song. If I > record some TB-303 > kinda line and I have all the cutoff filter tweaks I made in real time > and recorded that to audio in Qtractor, > and later I want to, say, omit a note or change the cutoff automation, > I cannot do this with audio. I > have to rerecord everything and since Qtractor does not have > automation, I actually have to re-perform > the whole thing. > Ardour has automation but no midi. > So making an electronic kinda track is very tough. > > Paul Davis: > > Very well said. This is why I am asking questions. At the same time I > am throwing in my thoughts, so that > you, the devs, could see what musicians might or might not need. > Perhaps I do not know a 100% what I want, > but some things I do know. > > Of course, my blank statement was an incorrect generalization, I agree > and will try not to generalize in the future. > It is also evident to me as well that I am very new to linux audio, > this is why I generally do not post to this list ;) > > Basically, the kind of music I do is based on manipulating sound > through effects, sweeping filters, vocoders. > So to me it is important to have automation and at the same time to go > back to any moment in the song and change > something. In other words, I need to have the song in "development" > mode. Atm, I do not know how to work in, say, > Qtractor and not render things to audio in order to work with them, > same with Ardour. If Ardour gets midi maybe this is > going to change. > > Anyway, all of the above is just my workflow. Might no be interesting > to anyone else, of course. > > Louigi. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > -- Christopher Cherrett [email protected] http://www.openoctave.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
