Re: [Bluemusic-users] I have a dream, or a major feature request
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From: Cesare M. <ce...@po...> - 2008-01-12 17:34:18
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Atte André Jensen wrote: > Hi > > I really, really, really enjoy working with blue. Actually so much that > I hope to more or less use it exclusively for the next CD for my project > "modlys", that I'll start as soon as the first CD is out (should be > within a month). > > However, there is one thing I really miss when working with blue: > playing. For me many ideas are best worked when playing along. For the > first CD I (besides two tracks in blue) used a lot (too many) programs > including muse (sequencer), ardour (DAW), zynaddsubfx, ams, pd, phasex, > (synths), specimen (sampler) and dssi instruments and ladspa plugins. I > think all of that could be simplified, amplified and stabilized by using > only the amazing blue. For an example of some of what I did, that is > most naturally done with my fingers on the keys is the piano part in > this track from the first CD: > > http://atte.dk/download/holde_pkt.mp3 > > Is there any hope that "playing keyboard into blue" will happen? > > In any case I think the cleanest and actually the easiest way to > implement this would be to have instruments that work with both midi and > score (it's the instrument designers responsibility, I know. I did a few > tests in this direction a couple years ago, but left it an since my > instruments have been mostly midi, before rediscovering blue a month > ago). Then the auditioning while playing could be done with the midi > part of the instrument, while blue is recording the incoming midi-data. > Afterwards these should be translated to score data. I'm not sure but I > think a lot of the midi processing (most importantly quantize) could be > done with existing note processors. > > I do realize that it's not a simple task, and I might be the only user > really needing this, but I can still hope that something like this could > be implemented. > > So how about it? Am I crazy or off track? > > Hi Atte, I've felt this need too. But I took another route. I made a very basic opcode to synchronize other apps with blue via jack transport. Maybe you can find it useful too: http://www.cesaremarilungo.com/download/csound/jackTransportOpcode.tar.gz jack_transport 0 -- start jack_transport 1 -- stop jack_transport 2 -- rewind Cheers, -c. -- www.cesaremarilungo.com |