MIDI hardware sequencers (was: Re: GAS .. LUST ..)

[Andrew Tarpinian]

My thinking was importing midi from a daw to hardware defeats the purpose of the hardware seq in the first place. I usually use hardware to be inspired away from the computer. But I guess it's different for everyone. 

The octatrack is not known to be the most advanced midi sequencer. Capable but it has it's limitations.

> On Aug 22, 2015, at 11:38 PM, Nigel Kersten <nigel at explanatorygap.net> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Nigel Kersten <nigel at explanatorygap.net> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Andrew Tarpinian <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> How often do you need to import midi to a hardware sequencer!? 
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>> Whenever I've owned them in the past, reasonably often? Multi-part MIDI can be kind of annoying to record rather than import.
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> So this difference has kind of been puzzling away at me all day, and I think I've worked it out.
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> Previously my hardware sequencers were never sufficient to write tracks entirely from scratch, even if they got me most of the way there, so I'd often import MIDI from my DAW. 
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> After playing around with the Octatrack again, I'm starting to suspect it's just how I'd write most of my music, and if I did have complex sequencing on the computer, I'd almost certainly want to sample the output rather than import MIDI.
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>> I went and spent some time playing with a Beatstep Pro. The firmware update seems to have fixed most of the glitches, and now I'm seriously considering it again.
>> 
>> Played with the Octatrack again, which I think is a fantastic machine....
> 
> Lucky none of the stores around here actually have any stock for sale, just floor models. Today would have been an impulse purchase otherwise.
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