Sequencer Heart Ache

[Andrew Schrock]

My best trick to saving your tunes is to keep my minidisc recorder going
all the time. MD's are $2.50 or so now, and in mono mode they go for
almost 150 minutes. Very handy. Plus if there's nothing worthwhile you can
just erase it all and start over.. but it's worth it for that one gem.

Much better than recording midi data. So often I come opon a midi file
where I forget to record the patches, and wonder what I was thinking when
I was recording it.. 

later
Andrew

-| Andrew Schrock | aschrock at cs.brandeis.edu |-

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 DCMagnuson at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/21/99 9:41:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, P4DQt at aol.com 
> writes:
> > Same thing on my MMT-8 sequencer, after I c ome up with that fat ass 
> keyboard 
> > 
> >  lick, I have to stop my performance, press the record, start buttons on 
> the 
> >  MMT-8, let the four time counter clicks go by before it starts recording 
> the 
> >  performance, now that the fourth click is up and the MMT-8 is going to 
> start 
> >  recording what I'm going to play, I sort off remember what that fat 
> pattern  
> >  Went like, I start playing and thanks to all the carrots I eat all is 
> well, 
> > I 
> >  hit the right keys at the right time and I have my performance on track 
> one. 
> >  Now again I have to walk over to the MMT-8, push a few buttons so I can go 
> > on 
> >  and get track 2 ready to record to, I hate this about Sequencers, what's 
> up, 
> > 
> >  is any boy thinking up there, how can I get what I want done?
> 
> Actually, one thing I do when writing new pieces is leave my MMT-8 looping 
> the drum patterns, or whatever tracks I've already made.  Then I'll set the 
> computer sequencer to record on the MIDI channel I'm playing live on.  I jam 
> along, and if I get something good, it's recorded into Cubase.  If I play for 
> 2 or 3 minutes and don't get something good, I'll delete the new track in 
> Cubase and start it over.  
> 
> If  I DO get the key part, I'll just edit it and dump the portions of it that 
> I like into the MMT-8.  I only do this for more complicated parts... I can 
> usually nail the simple stuff right away.
> 
> The benefit of recording the track for a few minutes is being able to record 
> those "happy accidents"  oops, didn't mean to play that, but sounds good 
> anyways...
> 
> Dave Magnuson
> Independent Music Site
> http://IndieMusicSite.com