.]]>I will maybe take ten years more to build it, but this will be my ideal advanced step sequencer.
I may have too much hope, but maybe one day I will be able to create this.
I'm a song mode guy. I like adding a lot of details and fills, and I can't plan everything out as well as I would like in live mode. The vast majority of my patterns are unique, live mode isn't super practical for me.
Yeah it's a little tricky to use live mode. I think it would be better if it had recording for sequences of chains, like I mentioned above.
i've always used live mode for lsdj and piggy tracker songs when playing gigs (and the pattern load screen in nanoloop) except for some situations where i was using additional hardware that kept me busy. makes it more enjoyable for me and i like the freedom to switch things around a little more on the fly.
That does seem like more fun, to improvise a bit. Plus it looks like you're really doing something, so people can be like "whoa he's going off right now!!" =p If only I could hook lsdj up to a keytar.
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having two fx columns for xm/it tracking would keep me busy for the next decade.
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smooth high resolution drawable automation (curves, lines and points)
a really good fine detail sample editor with the option to move a small looping section backwards and forwards by automation
a DAW-like song timeline in which long samples could be layed out alongside normal tracker patterns (being able to record vocals, guitar, keys whatever in one take without splitting up the recording into pattern sized chunks)
very low latency, no lag when recording.
it should be portable and make use of both gamepad style controls and touchscreen controls. For this i guess it would have to run on something similar to psp vita. (the touchscreen controls are awesome for recording movements of sliders into automation, laying down a beat on virtual mpc style pads or recording a melody on virtual keys.)
it would be a complete in the box solution to making electronic music and then recording instruments like in cubase or on a four track.
it would have to have decent quality inputs and outputs.
anything that could be controlled by automation could also be controlled by pattern commands in a tracker style pattern editor. for when you dont want smooth changes between values but want to jump instantly from one value to another.
infinite tracks
some kind of video editing (haha going to far), must be portable system
high quality render to wav for whole song, individual tracks, individual patterns.
everything on the sunvox and renoise todo lists.
its annoying for me that a alot of chiptrackers that are based on old game systems are bound to frame rate for their speed calculations (so i can never get perfect BPM from nanoloop, lsdj or famitracker, for example) so my ideal tracker would break from that and have perfect BPM.
it could also run on a high powered tablet with a large screen but with one of those gamepad addon, slide over things bit like the wikipad
]]>breakphase wrote:How important is "live mode" to you guys? Do you use it -- live? Only tracker I can think of like that is lsdj (thus lgpt).
Other than for recording, I hope it dies in a terrible fire.
EDIT: I meant live mode not LGPT haha
Do you like ableton live? I think it could be more useful if you could record your live button pushes, like that. So you record an 8 bar sequence, loop it, then over dub little things on it. And then mix it with a DJ mixer with another gameboy. Or a kazoo or whatever .
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