Re: [Bluemusic-users] I have a dream, or a major feature request
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From: <att...@gm...> - 2008-01-13 10:09:29
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Steven Yi wrote: > The mp3 is nice! Thanks :-) > Mark mentioned blueLive, and I did do some work on basic MIDI > recording sometime last year; the SCO Pad part of blueLive was what I > worked on which is supposed to work like Finale-like notation. I never used finale, so... > It > didn't record in real time but instead recorded pitches and > incremented time using 4 for quarter note, 5 for half note, etc. > (Strange, just testing, it doesn't work with the number pad here but > does work the the numbers on the top of the keyboard). This part of > blueLive does work on Windows as it uses Java's midi system. So it's like step recording; select a length, press the note on the midi keyboard, for every note? Is that behaviour part of blue live now, or were you just referring to some experiments you did on local code? > I would like it really if this work could be used to support MIDI > recording in realtime. Something that would be necessary: Great! > -Instrument note metadata system needs to be implemented (some > discussion has been done here, but basically need to allow describing > instrument pfields in instrument with types and ranges; this would be > used all around blue then as note template data for things like midi > input, pianoroll or tracker note template filling, etc.) Do you mean like: "map velocity (0-127) to p5 and midi note to p4 which expects pitch class format"? > -make sure times are mapped to tempo if tempo changes used (this makes > me want the tempo editor to be written first; i think this would be > useful anyways as we could create our own tempo map to be readable by > instruments) Isn't the t-statement enough? I didn't use tempo change with blue yet, but I expect them to work out-of-the-box... > -figure out UI for recording, how to handle recording of MIDI data > (auto create generic soundObjects?) Something like that... > There's a great number of things in blue I'd like to work on now > especially with all the great ideas you've been bringing up, but I am > so crunched right now for time with a number of writing and other > projects. =( It'd be nice to draft some Java programmers sometime, > but that doesn't seem likely. Hopefully can finish up with my > projects sooner rather than later as I'd rather be working on and with > blue right now! It's good to hear that you have an interrest in taking blue to new areas! No worries regarding time available. For now I can live with soundObjects, blue live (which I'm still to try out) or the midi-sync to jack option mentioned by Cesare. Of course it could be very nice eventually... -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen http://anagrammer.dk | http://modlys.dk |