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Ojustaboo Platinum Member
Joined: 08 Jul 2011 Posts: 1154 Location: UK
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 12:27 am Post subject: sequencer advice please |
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Hi all, here's another "how long is a piece of string" type question
I have a Korg M3 with exb-Radias as my only keyboard, purely for use at home. I have a small Peavy usb mixing desk linking both the M3 and my PC to my active monitors.
My PC is fairly high spec, I7, 6GB RAM, 60GB ssd as main hard drive and around 2TB of other internal disk space, Asus D2X sound card, evga gtx465 graphics card,Gigabyte motherboard, dual monitors etc running Windows 7 pro 64bit.
I want to use my PC as the sequencer rather than the M3.
I have discovered things have moved on a good deal since I used pro24 and Cubase on my Atari ST many years ago.
Which is whats leading me to my confusion. It seems that nowadays software packages concentrate mainly on recording audio, whichever sw I end up choosing, it needs to be able to act like a top class midi sequencer.
I looked at both reaper and ableton but there were a lot of negative comments about boths midi capabilities, unless I'm missunderstanding. It sort of looks like many s/w packages are designed around audio and the midi is an afterthought.
I see that they all seem to have s/w synths nowadays, and that is something I could obviously make good use of to accompany my M3.
I'm happy to purchase say the full version of Cubase 6, but as these sorts of s/w cost a lot of money, and I cant seem to find demo versions of many of the top end s/w packages (can find a demo for cubase but have to purchase a usb key to try it if i read correctly, and that sort of thing bugs me and makes me want to look at the competition)
can any of you guys and girls point me to packages that handle midi sequencing very very well, if they also have soft synths then that's a bonus.
I realise to a large part it's personal preference
Many thanks
Joe |
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Ojustaboo Platinum Member
Joined: 08 Jul 2011 Posts: 1154 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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Looks like I will be getting cubase.
Have downloaded the demo of cubase elements and I like what I see.
best
Joe |
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synthjoe Platinum Member
Joined: 21 Apr 2010 Posts: 1011
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:21 am Post subject: |
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Logic from Emagic (now Apple) is another good sequencer SW. I haven't used it since version 5, but then and before I was happy with its MIDI features - it also was more of a MIDI seqencer than audio, back in the late '90s.
An option to get a 'simple' version of Cubase (or Logic, sometimes) is to purchase some cheap MIDI controller, synth or MIDI module and you get the sofware (usually Limited Edition, or similar) with it. Has most of the useful features and costs a fraction of its bigger brother. |
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Ojustaboo Platinum Member
Joined: 08 Jul 2011 Posts: 1154 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:56 am Post subject: |
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Thanks.
My daughters at Uni, that's another way to get Cubase at nearly half price |
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49erkid
Joined: 18 Jan 2011 Posts: 32 Location: Southern California
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:22 am Post subject: Sequencer |
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You might want to go the hardware route, I found a second hand Roland MC-50 MkII, this is a 8 track midi sequencer, it is extremely easy to use and as a bonus it can read SMF files (midi files) and play them back on your gear. It is a good piece of gear if you dont want to fuss and muss with a computer based software sequencer. Check one out if you can, here is a link to a picture of one:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10821867/IMAG0862.jpg _________________ Current gear: Radias, Triton Rack, Fantom XR, Motif ES6, TX81Z, Motu 828 Mk3, Motu Midi Express XT, MV-8800, Alesis M1 Active Monitors, Art Pro VLA II, Mackie 24.8.2 mixer
Software: Cubase 5, Windows XP SP3 |
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Ojustaboo Platinum Member
Joined: 08 Jul 2011 Posts: 1154 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:33 am Post subject: |
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Many thanks
Already brought cubase 6 though |
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49erkid
Joined: 18 Jan 2011 Posts: 32 Location: Southern California
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:26 am Post subject: Cubase 6 |
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Ok cool, I like Cubase too to track audio into it. I usually record my midi sequences with an MV-8800 and then sync it to cubase, then all my audio lines up, then I cut and paste and arrange the sounds, till I get the desired song outcome. The mc-50 is a low cost hardware sequencing alternative. Cheers my friend. _________________ Current gear: Radias, Triton Rack, Fantom XR, Motif ES6, TX81Z, Motu 828 Mk3, Motu Midi Express XT, MV-8800, Alesis M1 Active Monitors, Art Pro VLA II, Mackie 24.8.2 mixer
Software: Cubase 5, Windows XP SP3 |
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WmsKX
Joined: 07 Jun 2013 Posts: 2
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Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 9:28 am Post subject: Sequencing to create songs |
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My question is how to insert several sequences one after the other to create a song? This is what I have been trying to do with the kronos X? |
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