On Mar 26 18:32 98, Bob Sewell of 1:116/30.3 wrote:
BS>     Dia dhuit, Nancy.  Are you among those incorporating sequenced MIDI
BS>  into their live music?  If so, (or anyone else reading this who does)
BS>  how do you manage to keep the live elements of the band (i.e., the
BS>  human factors) in sync with the MIDI?
well,
in any band, someone's got to lead,
so get some live human to lay down a track in midi,
humans generally don't play the music as written,
so rather than try to reproduce the sheetmusic
reproduce what is played.
after laying down the first track,
lay down any others using a live human playing in sync with the 1st track
or
use tempo changes to match mechanical to the live
you can lenghten notes [or shorten] both time and or duration
then you practise to the midi track
then you perform
but,
sequencing is rather like playing an instrument, it takes practise before one 
is ready to perform.
BS>     1) The sequencing problem.  We imperfect humans have that nasty
BS>        tendency to keep slightly imperfect tempos, but then you know
BS>        that.
record your imprefect tempos on a midi keyboard
BS>     2) How do you handle retards (no, not the drugged-out groupies) and
BS>        other tempo changes?
tempo changes are part of most all sequencing progams these days,
but if you record from a keyboard, it will instead of showing tempo changes, 
show longer and shorter notes [than what was written]
BS>     3) Changing the song live from the rehearsed version, such as going
BS>        through the ending chorus an extra time or two, etc., I suppose
BS>        is out of the question.  Any easy way to work pre-sequenced MIDI
BS>        around this?
this can be done by means of using midi loops, but as this does not work in 
what I do, I don't do it, but I do know that it can be done, perhaps someone 
who does do it will explain their techniques.
Regards,
Richard.
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