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Hi,
Angel de Vicente  writes:
> Hi,

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> my first post to the list. I hope MIDI issues are appropriate for

> it. I'm an amateur classical guitar player and I'm starting to use the

> computer as a "partner" to play duets, trios, etc.

>

> At the moment I just enter a score in either GNU Denemo or Rosegarden,

> then just tweak a little bit the tempo and the velocities to make it

> more musical and then I play along with that. But the whole thing is

> very time consuming, so I'm looking for an alternative way for note

> input. I am hoping for something like the following:

>

> 1. I just enter the notes, regardless of the duration of each of them.

> 2. Then I go into a second phase, where (using the PC keyboard or a MIDI

>    keyboard) I just worry about the rhythm (the note durations). Every

>    time I press a new key in the keyboard the program would play the

>    next note from the ones entered in step 1. and record its duration. I

>    don't care about how the score will look with these durations. I just

>    want an easy way to create a more musical accompaniment. This way, at

>    this step I only have to worry about the durations of each note.

OK, so in the end I did a proof-of-concept implementation of this with

Pure Data, and it works really great. I put it in recording mode and I

enter the notes (for the moment no chords) without worrying about

durations. Then I go into recording-duration mode, and then regardless

of which key I press in the keyboard, the pitches to be played come from

the previously entered list, so I only have to worry about playing them

with the rhythm and velocity (MIDI velocity) I want. 
When I sent this request to the list I had only heard about Pure Data,

but I had no idea of what it really was. I just followed about 1-2 hours

of video tutorials in YouTube, and I was able to write this little

application in a very quick time. Kudos to Pure Data, I think I'm going

to be using it quite a lot in the future.
Cheers,

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