[Dave]

Hey all,

Trying to get back into composing (as a hobbyist) after being out of
it for years. In the old days, I used to do a lot of work with Sonic
Foundry Acid (now owned by Sony). It was nice the way you could chop
up samples, stretch them and re-pitch them, etc. The only drawback
that I noticed is that you couldn't dynamically change with the
parameters of a filter/processor (apart from the wet/dry volumes). So,
once you created a filter and played with its settings, you were stuck
with those settings for the entire piece. This felt limiting. For
instance, if I wanted to filter a clip such that a lowpass filter
would sweep its cutoff frequency across the sample, I would have to do
hacky things like have several filters at different cutoffs and fade
between them. Lame.

So, I used to do a part of my work with Propellerheads software
(Reason and/or Rebirth). However, I find the workflow of these
programs tedious at best. For instance, if you to make a melody, you
have to break it up into patterns (of which there are only so many you
can have).

So, has anyone seen any tools out there where you can have dynamically
changing? Am I stuck pulling my hair out at Reason for this, or are
there better tools?

Thanks.

Dave

[Ethan Winer[_3_]]

On Feb 7, 12:37 am, Dave wrote:
So, has anyone seen any tools out there where you can have dynamically
changing?

SONAR can play Acid-ized Wave files, and FX in SONAR can be fully
automated for all parameters. SONAR Producer version is expensive, but
I'm pretty sure the less expensive "junior" versions will do this too.

--Ethan

[ted moore]

On Feb 7, 10:00*am, Ethan Winer wrote:
On Feb 7, 12:37 am, Dave wrote:

So, has anyone seen any tools out there where you can have dynamically
changing?

SONAR can play Acid-ized Wave files, and FX in SONAR can be fully
automated for all parameters. SONAR Producer version is expensive, but
I'm pretty sure the less expensive "junior" versions will do this too.

--Ethan

ProTools works great for these things and can have great visual
interfaces. However it is quite pricey.

Pure Data, which is free, allows for complete control of any and all
parameters. It unfortunately can have a steep learning curve, but
often one can find others' patches to use that allow for the type of
automation you are looking for. It might be worth looking into -
especially because there's no financial risk!

-Ted

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I would go for Ableton Live.
Try to download a Demo version and check it out ..
Really fast and intuitive
I love it when I need to check how loops work together, when I need
fast results....
the Dsp sound a bit synthetic when pushed. but in General it's pretty
straight forward in recording, creating loops and mixing loops...