Recently i have started to get back into making music electronically since i dont have any instruments appart from an old acoustic guitar and a few pieces of percusion, not to mention i dont have an interface with multiple inputs or a selection of mics.
Having just recently recorded the beginning of a song and recording it into ardour i had an idea from a drum part.
Rather than use hydrogen, since ardour does midi, i thought id do it straight in ardour using calf fluid synth as i have some nice sound fonts, and its easier than having to connect up multiple programs and sync them.
I’ve spent 3 hours
what do i have to show for it.
2 bars.
How things are done, are done in a round a bout and complicated way.
Within most midi editing progroms, you pencil in a track of desired length double click and a new window opens with the editor.
ARdour does not want to do this, thats fine, you create regions and pencil your notes in.
Well thats where the fun begins, theres something wrong with how regions are created and modified. I now have a region that somehow been reseized and moved back a half beat, and cannot be changed or moved.
I cannot even copy what i have done to a new regeion, i can create a new region which is 2 bars long, but not paste what i have copied. Probably because the regiom im copying from is slightly bigger than 2 bars, but i cannot resise it back down to exactly 2 bars. Notings in the way of it being resized, thers no note there just empty space.
ive tried all sorts of grid settings, no joy.
Im about to through my computer out the window.
ardours midi editing is too complicated, too many tool selections.
You only need 2 tools, pencil, and selection.
Then theres velocity, velocity defaults to 64. Too quite even with just my acoustic guitar track which isnt even hitting 0 or the meters. 127 is perfect, when im playing the track to check, i discover cant hear them, so i manually change the notes, then as i add the notes i have to change them.
If i select them all, if 1 of the notes is different value, it wont change, if you want to change multiple notes, they have to have the same value to all be changed at the same time.
So im stuck with 2 bars that i cant do anything with but delete and try again from the beginning.
oh and creating regeions ontop of regions ive done multple times due to not having the right tool selected. im not sure why you would want to do that in a midi track.
You need regions to enter notes and from my understanding, the region is supposed to be like in other midi programs.
Is there any way to improve or change how midi is edited in ardour in future versions so that people done spend hours trying to do stuff. Im not a midi novice.
:const_iterator Evoral::Sequence::note_lower_bound(Time) const [with Time = double]: Assertion `i == _notes.end() || (*i)->time() >= t’ failed.