Sequences - How to Help Everyone

[g2ktcf]

I do not know why I did not think of this earlier....but I have an idea.

We like to share sequences and such. However, my hardware is not just like anyone else's so the usefulness can be limited. However, every sequence that we have made has the basic building block of a beat track (whether explicitly a beat track or one composed of several channels).

Would be helpful, if we post beat tracks for certain songs in the File Library???

Chris

[dirknerkle]

Would be helpful, if we post beat tracks for certain songs in the File Library???
Chris

At first glance it sounds like a pretty good idea, but in practice, different renditions of a musical selection usually carry different tempi. The same artist may record it several times and use a different arrangement each time. Some artists might record a song in straight duple time and switch between a 3 and duple meter another time -- Harry Conniff Jr. is a perfect example.

In addition, musical devices including both recording and playing equipment often don't operate at the same speed. There are speed controls on PC-based sound editing equipment (as well as multitrack recorders) that can change the tempo without changing the pitch. For example, recently I assembled a sequence from an MP3 file I got off the web, but I wasn't satisfied with the audio -- it was a bit scratchy in a couple spots. So I bought the CD, ripped the music from it and lo-and-behold, it wasn't 1:1 in tempo with the MP3. Over the length of the song (about 2:58) there was a 1-second difference. This is more than enough to throw off a sequence. I had to use one of my multitrack units to ding with it and compress it just the slightest bit so it hit on all the sequencing markers, which was a lot easier than messing with all those Vixen pixels!

It's an admirable goal -- I just don't see how it can be accomplished with excellent success. More helpful, I think, would be to look at Vixen patterns for doing specific things -- twirls/spins on mega-trees, combining fades/wipes with motion, etc. as long as there was some explanation to accompany it.

Just my two cents worth...