On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:18:04PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: > On 04/09/04 16:54:56, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > >One thing I'd love to have is *simple* MIDI sequencer that does *only* midi > >(no audio whatsoever), is optimised to handle arbitrary note timing (no > >tempo, > >beats, ...), and using the ALSA sequencer interface. The saved file format > >doesn't even have to be midi. Sort of a dumb multitrack recorder for midi > >data, slaved to JACK transport control. > > I agree completely that a straight plain MIDI sequencer is needed. Not so > sure about the no tempo idea though. Editing MIDI without the concept of > tempo and/or bars would be a most horrible thing. Ardour sync through some > means is definitely essential (and the thing that makes the current stable > version of MusE essentially useless to me). I don't know about "simple", > except the fact that it's just MIDI. I'd like a feature complete MIDI > sequencer (in gtk), not one that's sucked down feature-wise. > > Writing a multitrack recorder is a duplication of effort - we already have > one (and I severely doubt anyone is going to be surpassing ardour in > quality any time soon). > > We don't, however, have a just-MIDI sequencer, with all the nice features a > MIDI sequencer needs (like advanced control editing, etc.) The next > version of MuSe could be quite good, but it has all that audio stuff > holding back development, plus it's Qt of course.. > > (Random thought) A MIDI sequencer where you can draw control curves over > the tracks (like ardour volume and whatnot) would be very cool.. esp. for > electronic music (like, say, trance) when the control parameters are as > important as the notes themselves > > -Dave
What about seq24? It's simple and uses GTK. I think it also has something where you can draw lines on a canvas to change control parameters.
