I have a clear vision that "midilooper" should become a prototype of a new sequencing concept, not just another sequencer.amiga909 wrote:piz, what should your midilooper become?
Problem with existing concept of sequencer is that it is based on endless timeline. It is wrong concept from its early start about 30 years ago and nobody dare to change it. All those three decades computers were made to serve as a recording and storage device with different recording tools. Except from auto accompaniment and algorithmic composition tools almost nothing else is done to help composer to compose by providing different composing tools.
The most important composing tool is "thinking" and most of composers think in phrases and their rhythmic and harmonic variations. Nobody feels that starting point in composing music is an endless timeline.
Process could be called Object Oriented Composing. Composing object is a phrase and by experimenting on different ways to repeat, shuffle, harmonize and combine all those different results some of the best works were made.
Just look at the Beethoven Symphony No. 5 - Part 1. If you have enough imaginations it is obviously that Beethoven used just one short phrase by experimenting with its variations, rhythmically and harmonically.
Midilooper is in an early period and Piz must face two choices: to develop Midilooper as it is now: another robotic DJ effect or to develop a creative "brain extension" tool.
Marked for DJ tools is full, but marked for composing devices has been completely empty all the time.
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