On 05/01/2006 20:06, Sterling Beckwith wrote:
I wonder if Ben might not have more important things to do for us. Isn't combining various tracks from various sources--e.g. audio with MIDI, or with DB--what the bigtime sequencing programs like GB, Reason, Live, etc. are all about?
Well, those apps definitely involve editing and mixing your all your audio. This idea seemed more about letting DB play back a reference file for convenience, just to cut a couple of steps in seeing whether the tweaks to your drum track seem to have been the right ones to gel with the rest of your instruments. It wouldn't be displaying the waveform or anything, or letting you mix or apply effects or whatnot. To properly make a song with your drums you'd still have to export your audio and stick it into your multitrack recording software.
When I first saw it I thought it _was_ about making DB closer to a multitrack recorder, which indeed seems like a bad idea. When I realised it was actually much simpler, just about saving steps, I thought it was more interesting -- though I agree it would hardly be a _vital_ feature. I'd still much rather see the "multi-velocity sample range" handling features, higher sample rates, and MIDI import-that-strips-the-percussion-stuff features come in :)
wouldn't it make more sense to let one of the big boys do the synchronizing, and just switch back and forth between the sequencer and DB when needed to tweak the drum parts?
Well, that's what we do now :)
Cheers, Carl