quoted 8 lines been following this thread with some interest and I'm a little bit>been following this thread with some interest and I'm a little bit
>curious. in what ways is a tracker better >for producing music of
>idm-ish styles? in other words, how is it superior to loading up a
>bunch of >samples into a plugin and doing it with a step sequencer?
>
>all this talk has got me about ready to explore the possibilities
>but in the mean time if somebody wants >to clarify this point I'd
>love to hear the answer.
I wouldn't say "better," just very "pattern based." It's made for
punching in note data to trigger samples, whereas most sequencers
nowadays are created to record someone playing, and there's little to
help out people who want to do it all on screen.
Most trackers also map out the spread of the keyboard across the
qwerty keyboard, so you don't need extra stuff to play notes/melodies
and it's relatively easy to play by ear.
There's no "piano roll" and everything is heavily quantized, but for
"idm" that's actually a plus, thanks to the abundance of simple
melodies and complex rhythms. however, looking at pages upon pages
of vertical note data represented with hexadecimal code isn't exactly
"inviting," so it's not for everyone.
But, on the plus side, mostly all of them are free. Modplug is a
modern one that works pretty well and can import other mod files both
for playing and modifying. They're worthwhile to at least look at
and play with.
The advantage over doing it with a step sequencer is that there
really aren't very many good ones on the software side, and they're
free compared to hardware sequencers. On the downside, I'm not sure
about their midi capabilities and am pretty doubtful any support midi
sequencing. That's not very "trackish"
derek
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