This is a question I have been struggling with ever since I stopped using that old Impulse tracker. I just loved that I could do everything in IT with my computer keyboard, from loading samples to creating melodies. There was no task that required touching the mouse and that was what made it so fast to use. If I had an idea I could type it in with my keyboard in few seconds. Nowadays every sequencer I've tried needs the mouse and music editing has become very slow for me. I've used now fl studio 4 and its previous versions and liked it, but it's too slow to use because too many things need to be done with the mouse. Now I'm trying Live 4 and it seemed very promising, until I noticed that you have to load all the samples by dragging with the mouse, which is very slow. So if someone could tell me which sequencer is easiest to use with the keyboard, I would be so happy!! Is there for example any sequencer with customisible keyboard shortcuts? The most important things that I completely want to do with the keyboard is choosing samples for my song and editing drums/pianoroll.
I'm desperate, somebody please give me some help with this!
Best sequencer for keyboard editing (I hate using mouse)
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- KVRian
- 1278 posts since 24 May, 2004
Disclaimer: I'm not sure if i'm recommending the right stuff, so don't depend on my points...
Tracktion has customizable keyboard shortcuts (also CTRL+qwerty combinations) but i doubt it'll be good for non-mouse users.
Renoise is a tracker-style production environment (just updated), but when i used the demo i was dependent on the mouse. Perhaps it could be configured to work without or at least with less use of a mouse.
Tracktion has customizable keyboard shortcuts (also CTRL+qwerty combinations) but i doubt it'll be good for non-mouse users.
Renoise is a tracker-style production environment (just updated), but when i used the demo i was dependent on the mouse. Perhaps it could be configured to work without or at least with less use of a mouse.
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- KVRian
- 1243 posts since 24 Oct, 2003 from Maine
Sonar can bind keys to Piano roll, drum roll, and audiobrowser though it's key bindings editor. There are lots of audio/midi editing shortcuts or possible bindings as well (slice, bounce, combine, eq/volume,reverse,velocity, quantize, transpose, note length, pretty much anything, in the menubar. Tools are selectable via keyboard as well. I'm not aware of anyway to create or move notes however.
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- KVRer
- 18 posts since 18 Jan, 2004
There is only two or three very small things in renoise that require mousing. Thats setting up your configuration (soundcard GUI colors etc), and drawing envelopes.timewastin wrote: Renoise is a tracker-style production environment (just updated), but when i used the demo i was dependent on the mouse. Perhaps it could be configured to work without or at least with less use of a mouse.
Actually you can type in commands for envelopes too.
To move around in pattern editor just use arrows and tab.
To move around in the diskbrowser just hold down ctr+alt and use arrows/return.
To move around in pattern seqeuncer use ctrl + arrows.
To move around in instrument list use shift + arrows.
And you can have all this up on one screen.
It has hundreds of shortcuts that you can assign to any key.
You are an old Impulse-tracker user. You must try this one
Get help starting here:
http://tutorials.renoise.com/index.php/ ... ookAndFeel
Renoise 1.5 beta here:
http://www.renoise.com/
Have fun
