DAWs with MIDI reuse

[xbitz]

I hoped that there is some DAW that allows even more complex reuse, like, for example, overriding some parts of aliases with new midi events.

That's actually possible in Reason's blocks, although - as I said above - it's a vertical slice of the arrangement, not just one clip.

In Studio One you can just right-click a shared event and select "Separate Shared Copies" to make it into a unique, unlinked MIDI clip.
It's pretty standard stuff in most DAWs. It would be very tedious if for example you wanted to change a single note in one phrase, and you had it do it in 20 different places...

^^^ it's not about "Shared Copies" it's about mutating shared copies



changing them while keeping the linking, >> https://macprovideo.com/article/audio-s ... ogic-pro-x

AFAIK it's a unique Logic feature

[mtelesha]

Personally I believe Tracktion's Waveform 9 and 10 have MIDI generation and you can then create your own MIDI chords and patterns. Then it is just a right click away. The pattern will follow the Chord Track and automatically transpose the midi for you.

[trance_lucent]

In Studio One you can just right-click a shared event and select "Separate Shared Copies" to make it into a unique, unlinked MIDI clip.
It's pretty standard stuff in most DAWs. It would be very tedious if for example you wanted to change a single note in one phrase, and you had it do it in 20 different places...

Well, I meant "override part of clip while keeping this clip linked".

Looking at the most answers I still think that I wasn't clear enough initially. I didn't mean possibility to just create a lot of patterns and use them later in any order. I also want to use these clips for building harmonic/melodic lines, which means, at least, transposing of these clips.

Say, Cakewalk/Sonar: yes, it allows to create linked sequences, but I can't find a way to set inidividual transpose settings for these clips. So if my bass changes it's key (pitch), I am forced to draw it (or copy/paste/change it) entirely. And, if I need to change rhytmic pattern of this line, I need to redraw it again.

Logic allows all this, although it is a bit limited too. But, still: create 1 bar-long clip, draw pattern. Loop this clip. Make alias of it, place in a 5th bar, transpose it by -4 semitones, loop. Select all this, pack to folder. Loop folder (this means looping of 8 bars where first 4 bars have a base key, and other 4 bars are transposed by -4, and pattern is set in the very first bar). [Make alias of folder, transpose, pack to another folder, etc.]

This scheme still has some problems if I need to change, say, just two last notes of an alias, but it can be partly workarounded by shortening this alias and adding new clip/alias.