Just Create - MrrrRRROOOwwww Edition

[silvercat17]

(I'm cutting the cats' nails this weekend - Spooky's are done and she was NOT happy)

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[crunchysteve]

Spent the weekend trying to get my head round coding a MIDI master clock where it turns off its internal clock in favour of an optional external clock. It's for my computerless/DAWless music tools project.

Brain broken for the time being.

Why an external clock for a master clock? The project is intended to be used to record the MIDI data, including clock to my 4x oversampling digital recorder, allowing me to lock down a composition but still allow performance dynamics by recording only the "music notation" and having the synth knobs free to play with, making unique performances. Essentially multitrack data recording.

Why? The Sir Edmund Hillary reason.

My brain hurts, but it'll be worth it if it works and, unlike Everest, it doesn't want to kill me.

[dianec42]

I love the idea of multitrack data recording! Good luck, that sounds so cool.

[crunchysteve]

Thanks, yeah, it seems like a cool halfway idea between using DAW (which can get in the way of creativity, even if recording MIDI data, just because mixing and post becomes like an office job, it's task and keyboard focused, not performative) and audio recording on an actual recorder, which being more tactile and performative, especially at mixdown, once the audio is recorded, that's it, it can never change. By recording the note data only, the performance can be rehearsed over and over. Kind of solves the big problems of both styles of music recording. I'm sure it'll have its own unique problems, but hey, it's the challenge :D and using MIDI like it's a 1980s tape dump has a retro cool :D

[cornerofmadness]

That sounds complicated. good luck