[comp.music] Wanted: SMART Sequencer programs

fouts@bozeman.ingr.com (Martin Fouts) (04/07/90)

HELP!

I'm a guitar player.  Classically trained, I will admit, but a guitar
player.  I've also got an Atari ST, Alesis HR16, a Sequential
6 Track, a Yamaha FB01 and Notator for a sequencer. I've looked at
guitar synthesizers, but they are just not in my current budget.

My problem is that I really only want to use all of that MIDI gear to
provide an orchestra to practice with, because I can't play keyboards,
and I want to spend my technical training time on my guitar, not on
learning a new instrument.

When I decide to write a new piece for my guitar or to try to learn
the basics of a new style of playing, I spend a *lot* of time using
the keyboard on the Sequential to program up a score.  Because I can't
handle the keyboards, this comes at a very slow rate.  Often, by the
time I'm done with all of this stuff, I've lost whatever inspired me
to start...

My question is:  what is available PD or commercial to apply music
theory to sequencers.  I would really rather type in something arcane like

4/4@120:arp/am7:4,arp/fm7:4,d,b,e,a:repeat_until_bored

(which took about 12 seconds on the typer) than spend the several
minutes it would take me to get that simple piece right from a synth
keyboard.

The other thing I'm looking for is good libraries of percussion style,
as I've got a drum machine but don't know squat about percussion....

Thanks for any help.  Please reply directly and if there is enough
information I'll sumarize.

Marty

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