[PD] sequencer app for osx

[Si Mills]

Did you try this?

http://iannix.la-kitchen.fr/



On 10 Aug 2008, at 19:39, Martin Schied wrote:

> 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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