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On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:21:01 +0000

Angel de Vicente  wrote:
> Hi,

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> Angel de Vicente  writes:

>

> > Hi,

> >

> > 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.

Sounds nice. Any chance you could upload what you made somewhere?
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