[Ardour-Users] Ardour Development Update

[Paul Davis]

We are not going to get in an "arms race" with Live, Bitwig or FL Studio.
Those tools are far, far ahead of Ardour in the domain of groove-centric
in-the-box composition.

However, it doesn't hurt to have a little beatbox window that lets you set
up some basic pattern(s) to work around on your out-of-the-box instruments.

Maybe that side of things will slowly grow, maybe it won't. There's
something about being able to sketch out a track by having the rhythmic
basics laid down quickly that I think really helps with creativity.


On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 4:44 PM, jonetsu <jonetsu at teksavvy.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 15:57:10 -0400
> Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
>
> >    - Providing fast pathways to getting groove-centric sessions set
> > up, with pattern generators and other related tools.
>
> Is it possible at all to have this at a useful level in Ardour ? How
> very useful can it be when the playhead will play all loops in a column
> only ?  What I mean is, is it worthwhile at all ? I use Mixbus32C for
> mixing/mastering although I cannot conceive how it could give the
> flexibility of a grid of say 32 MIDI/audio clips by 12 scenes, each of
> which in a row can be played in sync at any time.  Try this synth line
> with this drum over there.  That guitar down there with the bass up
> here to the left.  Try them and record your tries - your switching of
> clips - at the same time in traditional tracks for further
> song-based editing.
>
> I mean, I really like Mixbus32C for mixing and mastering.  It's great.
> Has certain drawbacks perhaps, like most software do, but it does great
> things as it is today.  By the same token is it the best thing to
> pursue groove-centric sessions in a framework that's not really made
> for it, perhaps to find after 5 years spent on that, that it does not
> compare to tools (eg. Bitwig) made specifically to groove clips in a
> way that's largely (bit not totally) free form and thus opens the door
> for creativity ?  Tools that have even developed much further inb those
> same 5 years ?
>
> Could it be that this effort would bring better results by
> concentrating on the strengths of Ardour instead ?
>
> Cheers.
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