[PD] sequencer app for osx
Martin Schied
crinimal at gmx.net
Sun Aug 10 20:39:23 CEST 2008
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..
>
>
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