MWS workflow questions
I have been working with Midi WorkShop and have a few areas I still struggle with so I figured I'd try posting and see if others had reommendations.
1) Pitch Recognition (across tracks and the timeline) - having worked in othe midi sequencers with shaded rows on the track representing a keyboard I miss the ability to quickly look at the screen and see the pitches/harmony across the timeline/tracks. This week I found the Full Spectrum Note Color Mode in MWS and have been using that - I taped a reference sheet to my monitor of colors to pitches. I figure that in a month or two I will know without hesitation that a Bb is pink a G is is dark blue etc. But before I suck up more brain cells I figured Id solicit if anyone had other methods for quickly seeing the "harmonic arrangement" without having to learn something new (Note Color Map Chart).
2) Building a track from a sample (short Midi File Library) is another area I struggle a bit. I have a library of 1 to 16 bar midi files I would like to be able to quickly audition against a scratch audio mix and merge many midi files into a single midi track/tracks. I havent found a quick and easy way to do this in MWS. When I try the blend function with the hope of using ctrl < to undo if I dont like it I get results such as sometimes things will do an odd quantize, or several of the insert midi tracks will delete not just the last one inserted. And the biggest problem is when I blend the files begin to be inserted down consectutive tracks and not in the hot track. I have also tried MTC syncing SAW to Reaper - which works but tempo changes dont get sent from SAW to Reaper. The drop and drag functionality in the Reaper is exactly what I was hoping to accomplish in MWS. I guess to have thaT mws would need the library and regions functionality like in SAW. I guess I can use Reaper for the time line adjustments - but I hate to have to learn anymore than I have to in another DAW/sequencer. So if anybody has ways they have found that get thems building a midi track from a large library of midi tracks easily I'd appreciate them sharing.
3) Muting/unmuting several MIDI tracks at once. I have been looking for a way similar to groupings or selecting multiple channels in SAW to allow me to mute or unute several channels. Right now I find myself having to click the mute channel on the individual channels to turn the mute on and off.
Again any input if others run into similar problems and how they address would be appreciated.
Dave
SAC and SAWLite
Windows 7 on HP Elitebook 8460p laptop, RME Digiface, Presonus Digimax FS Preamps
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