[ubuntu-studio-users] Converting a recorded track to a timing track

[David Sumbler]

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
> 
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