Hello everyone. Before purchasing, i ‘d like to make sur about one thing i couldn’t clearly find out. It’s a very basic question:
Can i (real time) record in the sequencer different samples ( different instrument slots) at a time? I mean not a single, even sliced sample, neither different notes of the same sound, but samples that i would have loaded from the sdcard in distinct slots ? I saw videos about live rec, but i can’t make sure the guys aren’t playing slices of one sample only…
It’s a pain for me to be forced to use english on forums, and to force you to read my horrible english. I apologize. Have a nice day!
Hey @franckfressinet, welcome to Backstage. Great to have you join us here
First of all, your written English is excellent!! I totally get having to talk in a foreign language, especially when trying to describe something technical. With that said, you sound very fluent and clear. Probably better than my written French I’ve been using for 20 years
The answer to your question mostly relies on if you are talking about “live recording” using the pads on the Tracker, or live recording using external MIDI gear. Using the pads, yes you are assigning a particular instrument to be recorded. If you select multiple tracks, that allows polyphony on your recording.
With external gear, it works the same as any sending tracks to specific MIDI channels, so you can indeed trigger multiple instruments in that setup.
And to precisely answer that question, you can easily record different samples in a sequence, but not different instrument slots. You would have to set up your instrument to have the samples needed for you.
This is VERY doable on the Tracker. I will often have 3-4 different “sounds” on one instrument with 5 velocity layers for each, and chop them up. Then I’ll copy that instrument to 2 other tracks and use these 3 tracks to layer up live recordings of playing either just the range of one of the “sounds”, or trigger all 3 for some nice interactions. Again, just make sure you arm the tracks you want your polyphony to extend to.
My point was about live recording different samples loaded on slots, not while sequencing external midi gear;
As you would do with the SP pads for example : different disposable samples on a single take.
I come from sunvox (and i also had all the Roland SP except the 404 mkII).
My workflow seems to be : Live playing, then eventually quantifying, then nudging, microtiming, fx editing each notes separatly (not overall swing). I kind of builded a modest yet splendid external interface for Sunvox to optimize this way of doing since I hate mouse. Defining shortcuts and midi mapping are great in Sunvox.
Trackers are really accurate for my workflow.
So, to sum up, if i understand you, the answer to my question is No…
And it’s terrible, because the “form factor” as they say on the net (i’d say “Ergonomy"?) seems perfect for me, combining precise and clear sampling/edit and tracker sequencing.( I spent hours on the net, evaluating the solidity of the jog wheel, and concluded it was OK)
I’ll try to mentally project how i could cope with this. Cause i can’t get rid of the idea that i appreciate Polyend tracker, as far as i know.
Oh and the way you seem to buid a kind of “Kit", then chopping it and sequence its slices as different “instruments” is OK, but it involves a previous work either with rendering or another machine that wasn’t in my plans. I’ll think hard about it.
