Re: Anyone using a sequencer?

[james fowler <twostroke@gmail.com>]

yeah, give it a rip.  i really like their approach: they give you all the tools but do not dictate how you have to use them.  you can get crazy complicated or you can literally use it as a router.  i appreciate the lack of presumptuousness.

- j

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:31 PM, marcus kirby <marcusloops@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, I was actually thinking about opening bidule up a few minutes ago.

It would be quite a bit easier.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:19 PM, james fowler <twostroke@gmail.com> wrote:

hmm...well, bidule makes it very easy to sync external gear w/ whatever is running inside.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:33 PM, marcus kirby <marcusloops@gmail.com> wrote:

I sold my maschine last week. Trying to stay away from the laptop when it comes to music. The main reason being the mess of syncing maschine, ableton, my moog mp, and looper.

I wish native instruments would create a hardware piece that allowed you to dump the settings from the computer to the sequencer.

On Jun 22, 2011 7:39 PM, "james fowler" <twostroke@gmail.com> wrote:
> i have a good friend who has used an MPC60 mk2 (roger linn version) for
> years and loves it. solid as a rock and once you get used to it your
> workflow can be extremely fast. i was toying with the notion of buying one
> but since i'm 50% computer/50% hardware i went with maschine, which is also
> really fucking cool. like an mpc on steriods but i'm sure that if you ask
> dj premier he'd tell you that nothing can touch the mpc.
>
> anyhow, you can't go wrong either way. they're so much fun to play
> with...very cool music-making tools.
>
> - jim
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:41 PM, marcus kirby <marcusloops@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I currently have an electribe sampler that I use to send midi clock to my
>> moog mp, which spits out cv/midi to my looper and time-based pedals.
>>
>> I think I need a sequencer though. I need the ability to send various midi
>> notes to my echoplex, as well as send subdivision info to the moog; dotted
>> 8th on delay, quarter note on trem, etc. It would be cool if I could use
>> different drum sampler to trigger different rhythms for my pedals as well.
>>
>> The mpc line looks ideal, and it can send quite a bit of midi info out.
>> Since it can also function as a sampler, that would be rad, as would
>> sequencing bass lines for my analog synth.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>