On Wednesday 12 June 2002 16.18, Billy Biggs wrote: [...] > But that's sort of the thought behind ttrk: be a useful hardware > sequencer. I can't stand piano roll views, they just don't make > sense for the music I'm writing. I usually write electronic dance > music where I want to see everything that happens on one beat all > at once,
There *are* piano rolls that will allow you to view and edit multiple tracks at a time, but as you might guess, it doesn't work half as well as it sounds at first. And then we have controller data editing... *aargh!* > and it is _essential_ that I be able to edit the music as > it's playing: start looping one pattern and tweak it until I like > it. I do that sometimes as well - but obviously, there's a lot of jumping between tracks when doing it with a traditional GUI sequencer. *heh* > Different styles for different types of music really. I dunno... I do what I feel like WRT style and sound, and I don't like applications that try to prevent me from mixing different ways of working. Different tools for different jobs - but that doesn't mean you're supposed to use a single tool for each song. :-) > I also > think it's because when I started writing music, it was using > either a tracker or a hardware sequencer (at the time the Roland > MV-30). That's quite possible - but OTOH, I started out with trackers, eventually got into GUI sequencers, and then couldn't really go back. Initially, I had major problems doing any real work in a GUI sequencer, but now it's the other way around... //David .- M A I A -------------------------------------------------. | Multimedia Application Integration Architecture | | A Free/Open Source Plugin API for Professional Multimedia | `---------------------------> http://www.linuxdj.com/maia/ -' .- David Olofson -------------------------------------------. | Audio Hacker - Open Source Advocate - Singer - Songwriter | `-------------------------------------> http://olofson.net -'
