analog or midi second try

[Jim Johnson]

Well, if you don't know what you want to get, don't rush in to anything :')

Yes, analog sequencers are hard to use if you want to create arbitrary
music. They are not good at that. You have to treat the analog sequencer as
a musical instrument, and approach it on its own terms, just as you would
trumpet, piano, or drum kit. You can't play multiple notes on a trumpet,
and you can't sequence every musical line on an analog sequencer.

On the other hand, there's no reason you can't get good timing out of a
MIDI sequencer. Lots of people do it all the time. If you think the analog
stuff sounds better, that right there may be enough reason to live with the
limitations of analog.

A little blatant self-promotion, also intended to help you explore
possibilities: if you have a PC with Win95, you should check out Seq-303,
available on my web site (below). This is an analog sequencer simulator
that has many of the same capabilities as the TKB. <Not all, no indeed.> At
least this will be a way for you to explore what you might be able to do
with analog, without shelling out the money for the hardware.

Jim Johnson 
Metaphoric Software
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Makers of Techno Toys
Software for Electronic Music
http://www.technotoys.com
info at technotoys.com


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On 4/25/98, at 1:39 AM, gur milstein  wrote: 

>helo every body.
>
>i have a question.
>
>i'm bulding this days my new studio all with analog gear.
>asm,ms,motm and more but i gut to the point in wich i have to deside what
>stuff weil
>control this systems.
>so i lookd on the analog seq frome doepfer the regelwerk ,shaltwerek,
maq,the
>new 8 steps analog frome the system 100,all so the serge tkb and the small
>ones
>frome serge and the midi softwere frome stinberg and others.
>i do like tonal music but i'm not a keyboard playr and i want to creat
>my music with electronic devices.
>i own the maq 16/3 and i did some testing with it, it seemes to me that
>when i control analog gear with analog seq the synth  sound beter than
>with midi softwewre and even when the maq control this with midi
>it stil sound beter when i control it from the cv/gate out puts,it
>seemes that it is more precise with cv like notes come one after
>the outher exectley at the time they should like its in sync,i can hear
>that especially
>when i compere analog drume mechine like the TR to a patern on the sempler
>that been controld midi (i'm not talking about the deference in sound
>qualety,i'm talking
>about timeing)
>do i hear right ?
>but if its like that than thers the problem of how to compose a treak
>with anlog seq,every note cost so much so to creat
>a full treak with thes devices (prcusiuns,leads ,pads etc)i weil need
>lots of analog seq and sync them one to the other,a big block diagrem.
>so if midi sound the same as analog seq so i weil just buy a good
>midi softwere and some midi/analog seq like the maq,but if not
>what i do then buy 10.000$ tkb's or what ?
>and how do i create long patern on a analog seq more then 16 steps
>with defrenet timing and gates and slides but steil sync to the main(i
know
>i can turn the maq to creat 48 steps but at the same gate time and timing
>its not good enough).
>may be analog seq where the right thing in the days before midi but not 
>any more i dont know HELP ?
>
>thanx
>Gur Milstein