CW,
This post is in following the thread of using the
Serge in Post production. Thought I'd let you know
that I've been doing some experimenting of late with
locking the Serge up to Post projects using Logic
Audio Platinum and the Encore Expressionist. I work
mostly in 29.97, and lock to VITC from Sony BetaSP
using a MOTU Digital Timepiece. Right now I'm using a
MOTU Midi Timepiece AV LPT port version, but I'm not
really happy with its' midi timing "tightness", and
will probably add a Unitor8 USB soon, using the
Unitor8 for the midi instruments, including the
Expressionist/Serge, and the MOTU AV for talking to
devices such as reverbs, the Pod, the Waldorf xpole
filter, etc. I've diverged a bit, but only so that you
had a picture of the environment. With the scoring
well along, it becomes really easy while locked to
video, to assign a midi track in Logic to the Serges'
port, and using the Z1 keyboard, record triggers for
events on the timeline. I say triggers because more
often than not, I only use the Gate/Trigger outs on
the Encore, rather than the CV outs, and simply tune
the Serge to the key of the track (when the Serge is
used tonally). Of course it's just it's just as easy
to make sure your trigger note is in the key of the
track, just in case you Do want to track an
oscillator, but I haven't really used the Serge much
as a tracking instrument, although it works well, the
expressionist being the unit it is. I find that the
NTO has amuch wider range than most keyboards evenwith
octave switching, and I like to use the extreme ranges
of the oscillators a lot of times. As long as you have
the time to get the sounds on the Serge, and you are
far enough along in the project, these methods work
like charm. Juuuust Smilin'
BarryM
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This post is in following the thread of using the
Serge in Post production. Thought I'd let you know
that I've been doing some experimenting of late with
locking the Serge up to Post projects using Logic
Audio Platinum and the Encore Expressionist. I work
mostly in 29.97, and lock to VITC from Sony BetaSP
using a MOTU Digital Timepiece. Right now I'm using a
MOTU Midi Timepiece AV LPT port version, but I'm not
really happy with its' midi timing "tightness", and
will probably add a Unitor8 USB soon, using the
Unitor8 for the midi instruments, including the
Expressionist/Serge, and the MOTU AV for talking to
devices such as reverbs, the Pod, the Waldorf xpole
filter, etc. I've diverged a bit, but only so that you
had a picture of the environment. With the scoring
well along, it becomes really easy while locked to
video, to assign a midi track in Logic to the Serges'
port, and using the Z1 keyboard, record triggers for
events on the timeline. I say triggers because more
often than not, I only use the Gate/Trigger outs on
the Encore, rather than the CV outs, and simply tune
the Serge to the key of the track (when the Serge is
used tonally). Of course it's just it's just as easy
to make sure your trigger note is in the key of the
track, just in case you Do want to track an
oscillator, but I haven't really used the Serge much
as a tracking instrument, although it works well, the
expressionist being the unit it is. I find that the
NTO has amuch wider range than most keyboards evenwith
octave switching, and I like to use the extreme ranges
of the oscillators a lot of times. As long as you have
the time to get the sounds on the Serge, and you are
far enough along in the project, these methods work
like charm. Juuuust Smilin'
BarryM
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