I'm also looking for various midi and OSC sequencers (not only for pd) at the moment and have found some promising and some not-so promising applications:
-Promising: Ardour is going to support midi (currently only in svn) - didn't try it yet, but I will do soon. Interface looks very usable on screenshots. Midi editing in EnergyXT2 was also fine - but it can't send midi until now as far as i know. It's nonfree (about 50$): piano roll, with blocks: yes drag start and end points to control noteon/noteoff points: yes (doubleclick creates new notes) quantize to a grid of any size you want (and off): yes hot-key: yes lines down the bottom control velocity: yes super-intuitive scroll: yes (mouswheel + keyboard) super-intuitive zoom: yes, but no vertical zoom (?) ability of fullscreen editing in a separate window: yes, but I wasn't able to expand distinct tracks, but I think that's possible too. Qtractor seemed to be very usable too in current version (0.2.0, build 2008/08/10): piano roll, with blocks: yes drag start and end points to control noteon/noteoff points: yes quantize to a grid of any size you want (and off): yes hot-key: no (or i didn't find it) lines down the bottom control velocity: yes super-intuitive scroll: yes (mouswheel + keyboard) super-intuitive zoom: yes, but no mouse-wheel-shortcut ability of fullscreen editing in a separate window Currently I'm using Mackie Tracktion (using wine under Linux) for midi recording and editing, but its GUI is too CPU consuming for bigger projects. piano roll, with blocks: yes drag start and end points to control noteon/noteoff points: yes quantize to a grid of any size you want (and off): no fixed gridsize, but changing gridsize at different zoom-levels (very intuitive) hot-key: yes lines down the bottom control velocity: yes super-intuitive scroll: yes (mouswheel + keyboard) super-intuitive zoom: yes ability of fullscreen editing in a separate window: no -Working but not my flavour of using a Sequencer (didn't try velocity editing and shortcuts) Rosegarden MusE -Not so promising: too many... (-; some links to some links: https://puredata.info/Members/syntax_the_nerd/seqwiki/Sequencerwikihome/ http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/linux/MIDI_SEQUENCERS/ hope I could help someone. Martin Damian Stewart wrote: > Martin Peach wrote: > > >>> (since i haven't yet found a pure Pd sequencer i'm happy with) >>> >> What makes you sad about Pd sequencers? Maybe it's fixable. >> > > have you ever used Ableton's MIDI sequencer? it's a piano roll, with blocks > for notes. drag start and end points to control noteon/noteoff points. > quantize to a grid of any size you want (switchable with a hot-key) or turn > off quantization completely to finetune timing (for that little 'humanized' > extra, whatever that might mean). super-intuitive scroll and zoom with a > single mouse button drag in the top. the main features in this i'm > interested in is the quantization grid control, and the ability to super > fine-tune note durations. > > lines down the bottom control velocity. if you have two notes on the piano > roll trigger at the same time, it's super-easy to choose which note's > velocity you're editing. > > i don't believe it's do-able in Pd, not without a ridiculous amount of > work, and i'm too lazy to do the work myself (and if i wasn't, i'd do it > from scratch in a different programming language eg Processing or C++, > rather than fighting Tcl/Tk). > > >> Why not run three instances of midifile or even textfile with the same >> data? >> > > yes, this is what i'm already doing. the problem is generating said > midifile/textfiles in the first place. > > >>> - easy access to velocity and note duration >>> >> Do you mean that the thing should output the duration at the same time >> as the note-on, or the file should be readable in a text editor? >> > > no, i mean that i should be able to easily see and edit the duration and > the velocity without having to think or do much work. see above.. > > _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list