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Okay, so I was watching Animusic today, and after playing with Sythesia yesterday was reminded of how synthesia has that whole anticipation thing for notes, and how each part of the video in Animusic videos is a different instrument. I was immediately reminded of sound channels. Kill me now.
Anyways, here's the idea: If one were to make a tracker with the same number of channels as there are keys on a keyboard, and then reserved each channel for a specific pitch of ONE waveform (so that multiple notes can play at once), would it still be a tracker, or at that point would it just be a musical instrument?
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Yeah, I really wasn't sure. Is that how sequencers work? 'Cos I was under the impression that sequencers were for pussies, and that trackers are ze one true master race of music composition. Then again, I don't remember where I heard that, so there's a good chance that I'm just spewing shit from my keyboard again.
Well, I got from your wording "multiple keyboards", that you wanted a MIDI piano roll or something, which sequencers often have.
MIDI sequencers and trackers, from my knowledge, aren't too different. I know MIDI contains data which determines where a note is to be placed and the duration for that note - thus it is possible for multiple notes, i.e. chords, to be played from the same channel. As far as I know, that kind of polyphony isn't possible with a tracker, with which you only state where a note starts and where it is cut.
I'm no master on the subject.
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[quote=iGotno_scope]im going to continue making this crazy stuff then after a while my style will be so sick that you will be like damn suuun that shit is so sick i dont even get it. i will be like bro its ok.. you dont have to.[/quote]
Gotcha. I was just intrigued by the way the synth in Animusic handled note releases at the same time as note starts, and then thought that it was kinda the same as a MIDI.
Whether or not a MIDI device is polyphonic is up to that device. The MIDI standard allows overlapping notes, but that doesn't mean the device will play them that way (though lots of them will).
There are trackers, like Impulse Tracker, that will allow you to overlap notes on a single channel (by having an envelope that stretches past the note cut), which requires the ability to have extra "virtual" channels.
Anyhow, the technique of playing notes across channels in a tracker is a normal thing to do, especially if you want to do something like piano or guitar.
Also, sequencer is a broad term. A tracker is just a type of sequencer. A piano roll editor is not a tracker, but they are both sequencers. MIDI is just a standard for instrument communication; a tracker can use MIDI, a piano roll could use something besides MIDI. A sequencer does not have to use MIDI.
I believe Animusic uses General MIDI for its tracks. So yeah, a MIDI sequencer is probably what you want.
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