Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Converting a recorded track to a timing track

2016-12-27 Thread David Sumbler
On Tue, 2016-12-27 at 17:15 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 15:29:08 +, David Sumbler wrote: > > > > I don't really see how an "artificial" pulse can sound more natural > > than a human one > In the context of using a sequencer with beats and bars, it sounds > more > natural,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Converting a recorded track to a timing track

2016-12-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 15:29:08 +, David Sumbler wrote: >I don't really see how an "artificial" pulse can sound more natural >than a human one In the context of using a sequencer with beats and bars, it sounds more natural, since it's nearly impossible to fit pulse played music into the

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Converting a recorded track to a timing track

2016-12-27 Thread David Sumbler
On Mon, 2016-12-26 at 12:32 +, Pietro Bergamo wrote: > Hi. > In my (not so big) experience, "fluid" tempos and pulses are really > hard to sync, as Ralf said.  > I recorded recently a song with many tempo/measure changes and I > couldn't find any way to make organically. In the end, I kind of

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Converting a recorded track to a timing track

2016-12-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 12:32:01 + (UTC), Pietro Bergamo wrote: >An "artificial" tempo is, for me, always easier to predict, making the >recording more precise and demanding less editing. In the end, I think >it sounds more natural this way. Full acknowledgement. The OP could either record

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Converting a recorded track to a timing track

2016-12-26 Thread Pietro Bergamo
Hi.In my (not so big) experience, "fluid" tempos and pulses are really hard to sync, as Ralf said. I recorded recently a song with many tempo/measure changes and I couldn't find any way to make organically. In the end, I kind of cheated. On a rallentando, for instance, I split the measures in

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Converting a recorded track to a timing track

2016-12-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, you need a sequencer that records a tempo map following you tapping a key. This automatically would set the tempo, BPM in relation to the time code position. This works very well to sync a sequencer to "averaged normal music" played by real musicians. After or before doing this you still need

[ubuntu-studio-users] Converting a recorded track to a timing track

2016-12-26 Thread David Sumbler
This may well be a completely daft question, but if so, please tell me nicely. I want to record a track (using a midi keyboard and qtractor, probably) as a control track for performing subsequent tracks.  So this first track would perhaps simply be a wood-block or cow bell voice marking the beats