Years ago I used Opcode's Studio Vision Pro. SVP had a few very cool functions that I still miss. One was the ability to map out tempo with key clicks or midi notes. For example you could play back an existing midi file and tap on a given MIDI note and it would play back the existing MIDI file at the tempo you were tapping out. It also allowed you to save the tempo track you had just tapped out.
Conversely, you could play a midi track with a totally free tempo, slowing down and speeding up at will. Then you could rerecord a tap track in sync with what you had played and set it to the tempo track leaving the existing MIDI part you had played untouched. Once the tempo track and the played track were identified with one another, you could simply erase the tempo track and your performed track would play back with a strict set beat.
You could also apply these tempo changes to audio, but there were some limitations, like you could not hear audio playing in sync with you as you tapped out a live tempo.
It was neat cause you could do something like:
1 - play a song with no click track, slowing down on the hard sections and speeding through the easy ones.
2. Lay down the tempo matching what you had performed.
3. Strip out all the unpleasant tempo irregularities.
4. Finally, record a tempo track with as few or as many tempo changes as you wished in much the same way that a conductor controls playback tempo with an orchestra.
Something another sequencer used to do...
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- KVRian
- 1272 posts since 11 Apr, 2002 from Nashville, TN
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1272 posts since 11 Apr, 2002 from Nashville, TN
Then perhaps I didn't describe it well, because it wasn't a hassle at all. It was very flexible and easy to use. Trying get the same results without SVP's functionality would be way harder in Tracktion (and when I say that, keep in mind I'm a Tracktion fanboy). I'm fully aware that it would likely be low on a lot of people's list of priorities, but it was really handy for doing expressive stuff. It was also useful for getting scored peices to sync right up with what was happpening on screen.
Which seems like a bigger hassle... figuring out the tempos you want and then trying to type them in or simply playing freely at the tempos you wanted?
Another good example of it's use, lets say you played this great piano part with expressive tempo changes throughout. Once you tapped in the beat everything from that point on could be quantized to your initial freely played piano performance.
Which seems like a bigger hassle... figuring out the tempos you want and then trying to type them in or simply playing freely at the tempos you wanted?
Another good example of it's use, lets say you played this great piano part with expressive tempo changes throughout. Once you tapped in the beat everything from that point on could be quantized to your initial freely played piano performance.
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- KVRAF
- 2028 posts since 18 Mar, 2004 from New York, N.Y.
My music has a lot of complex tempo changes, I think that would be brilliant!
SVP was an incredible product, whoever ruined it at Gibson ought to be publicly spanked.
SVP was an incredible product, whoever ruined it at Gibson ought to be publicly spanked.
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- KVRAF
- 4908 posts since 10 Aug, 2004 from Colorado Springs
Rock,
I think you explained it quite well - That is a decent feature request. Re-state it in a thread with a 'FR:' in the subject line, and Haydxn (the unofficial Feature Request compiler here at RMS/KVR) will perhaps add it to his feature request thread.
It wouldn't be my at the top of my feature request list, but if it's a quick piece of code to knock out, I would certainly use it.
-Scott
I think you explained it quite well - That is a decent feature request. Re-state it in a thread with a 'FR:' in the subject line, and Haydxn (the unofficial Feature Request compiler here at RMS/KVR) will perhaps add it to his feature request thread.
It wouldn't be my at the top of my feature request list, but if it's a quick piece of code to knock out, I would certainly use it.
-Scott
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- KVRian
- 646 posts since 3 Mar, 2005 from Oslo, No(r)way
I didnt say it wasn]t a decent request, I just stated my opinion. Though I am not the kinda guy with advanced tempochanges throughout my songs I can see that some people would like it.
You didn't explained it poorly, maybe I just read it poorly:)
But I hope some of my requests come first, offcourse, as the ego maniac I am, lol
Now, back to wwwwwork.
You didn't explained it poorly, maybe I just read it poorly:)
But I hope some of my requests come first, offcourse, as the ego maniac I am, lol
Now, back to wwwwwork.
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