My first impression of the Cue Window was for use for ‘electronic music’, thinking of Ableton as a tool and the content I’ve seen associated with it.
How about using the Cue Window for learning songs, rehearsing solos, or even live accompaniment? I’ve seen amazing shows by a solo performer with a looper pedal. In this aspect, Ardour would be extremely powerful.
The release of Cue Recording puts all of the above ideas on steroids.
Ideas, hints and success stories welcome.
I’ve been trying to formulate song parts into the grid so I can call up any part at will after letting it go for as long as needed in order to compose a song. Seems to be a decent way to go about things to at least get a framework to then layer over top.
Usually means something like an intro on A, a verse or something on B, a chorus on C, a bridge on D, an outro on E…etc. Then you can call those cues on the timeline and fill out the structure of a song. Or at least, this was one of the obvious things that jumped out at me that does seem to work okay.
My biggest issues with it so far have been getting it to play MIDI sequences correctly, but I am pretty convinced I am the problem here (PEBKAC) and just need to play with it a bit more. I was hoping to get to a point where I could do these compositions in MIDI, but I boogered something up and resorted to recorded clips. Next project…
Well, if you put entire parts of the background track into slots and use Re-Trigger launch style for each slot, you can use Novation Launchpad to jump between parts or restart each part with one key press when practicing your playing.