On Tue, 2016-12-27 at 17:15 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 15:29:08 +0000, 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 resolution. > > Another solution would be to record even MIDI tracks by ignoring a > sequencers measure and tempo, quasi use MIDI in the same way as a > tape > recorder.
Yes, that's what I do, and what I intend to do (once I can get the keyboard linked to my computer again!) > > What I wanted to acheive was simply to get the midi beats to > > correspond > > (roughly) to the actual beats of the music itself - rits, > > accelerandos > > and all. The purpose of this is just to make it easier navigating > > in, > > say, qtractor: if I want to make a change at beat 3 of bar 246 then > > it > > will be easy to find. > Use markers. I don't remember in what way markers are supported by > Qtractor, but usually you could set markers. Name markers "bridge", > "refrain", "foo" or even "bar_1", "bar_2" and "bar_n". > > > > > As I said, I can probably do this with a Python program, but I > > didn't > > want to spend time writing that if there is something available > > already. The program would need a track consisting only of beats. > > This click-track could be recorded before or after the first track > > of > > actual music has been recorded - the pros and cons of that choice > > have > > nothing to do with what I wanted to do with it. I wasn't > > suggesting > > that I would necessarily want to play by trying to follow an > > artificial > > click track: the click track could be recorded before or after the > > recording of one or more music tracks. > > > > Anyway, thanks for your interest and comments. > I guess we understand you correctly, but you misunderstand us. > > Regards, > Ralf > > -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users