[RWP] Sequencer Baby, New Reaper App

Tue Jan 7 12:16:53 EST 2014

Hi Scott,
ReaSamplematic 5000 only handled a single sample, so people hooked 16 
ReaSamplematics instances together to make a 16 sample drum machine.
There have been several of those available in the forums for years now.
I don't know if any assemblage of ReaSamplematics can be as 
sophisticated as something like Poise VST, play 16 samples from virtual 
pads, with midi learn, velocity, 8 layers of samples per pad.

When I looked at Poise early on, I could access some of it, but maybe 
not all of it, while I think ReaSamplematic 5000 shares the hundred 
percent accessibility of the other plugs that come with Reaper, so maybe 
16 instances, or even more;  of ReaSamplematic is a simpler way to go 
than a single partly-accessible sample player.
I think you just copy and paste the single sample into its slot, no 
problem with drag and drop like most of the other more sophisticated 
sample players.
I think routing or keyMapping samples to play from a midi keyboard is 
just as simple, or crude, however you want to consider it; just put each 
ReaSamplematic and its sample onto its own midi channel; and slash or; 
write in which midi note number triggers the sample.
Unless it's recently improved, I don't know if it can handle midi learn 
assignment  to particular pads on a drum pad device or receive velocity 
messages.
I'm still hoping Poise VST might continue to evolve and will eventually 
become very accessible, since the author is an old Akai MPC user and is 
listening to suggestions about access.
Here's an early letter I wrote to him, with his friendly answers.
Others wrote to him later, but I haven't been able to keep up on 
development in Poise.
snip:
Hi Indi,

Thanks for your email.

 > Question: I'm visually impaired, and was just frustrated because I can't
 > possibly run Native Instruments Maschine

Answer: Unfortunately Poise probably isn't any better. Poise uses 
bitmaps and no tool tips as well.
 > Question: I didn't notice anything about assigning Poise's pads to a 
hardware
 > pad device, like my Trigger Finger, or Edirol PCR-300.
 > Is there a way to assign Poise's pads, like note numbers

Answer: Yes. The standard way to link drum pads to MIDI notes is to use 
the "Learn Trigger Notes..." command in the main menu, accessed via the 
Poise GUI.

Alternatively, MIDI trigger notes are saved in plain text .INI format 
files. You could bypass the whole Poise GUI and create/edit "trigger 
maps" directly. I can provide more details if you like.

 > Question: What about the 8 sample layers per pad, can you imagine a 
method I
 > might use to get at those from Trigger Finger

Answer: The eight layers aren't designed to be triggered directly. 
Instead each drum pad has a "Layer Mode" property that controls how the 
eight layers are triggered.

For example, in "Layer Tight" mode all sample layers will be triggered 
together when the drum pad is triggered.
Poise hasn't been designed with accessibility in mind. It's likely some 
of Poise's functionality will be difficult for you to access. 
Additionally I don't know what would be required to make Poise 
friendlier for your use.

Would you be interested in advising me what changes could be made to 
make Poise easier to use for vision impaired people? It's likely that I 
will not immediately be able to implement many changes right away. I'm 
not actively working on adding new Poise features at the moment but 
would definitely like to do a Poise version two in the future.
Best wishes,
Shannon Oram
http://www.onesmallclue.com/poise.php

On 1/7/2014 6:22 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
> Might also be worth noting at this point that in a recent version,
> Cockos seemed to do a bunch of stuff to make the stock
> ReaSamplematic5000 plugin more powerful. Not sure how usable what
> they've added is, or how powerful it makes it for the people who
> really use this type of thing, but to a sampling newb like me they
> sounded like pretty big improvements.
>
> If anyone finds time to take a look, report back.
>
> Cheers
>
> Scott
>
> On 1/7/14, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
>> Sorry, some we win and some we lose.
>> I'm gonna look again at Poise, with its 16 pads and several selections
>> per pad, as a way of triggering loops.
>>
>> I believe the author has made some access improvements, and I could very
>> nearly access it earlier, before he made any improvements.
>> Indi
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/7/2014 5:02 AM, Hrvoje Katić wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I've downloaded and installed it and I've read some info about Sequencer
>>> Baby in latest version of Reaper manual.
>>> I'm afraid it's not accessible enough to us. You have to Alt+left click
>>> on a pattern numbers in order to chain patterns. Also I'm not sure if
>>> notes can be imported via Midi or via midi keyboard. At least I didn't
>>> find such option on the interface or the manual. I was able to input
>>> notes with a mouse, of course with a help of Magnifier, but of course it
>>> doesn't mean anything for a totally blind producer.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6.1.2014. 23:27, Indigo wrote:
>>>> I just got a URL with google chrome at my tab key, so some way it's
>>>> possible.
>>>> In a few minutes I'll try it for the Cockos Sequencer Baby forum.
>>>>
>>>> On 1/6/2014 4:58 PM, Goldfinga Productions wrote:
>>>>> On 1/6/2014 11:42 AM, Indigo wrote:
>>>>>> I'll try to post the URL of the exact Cockos forum, which has some
>>>>>> posted tracks using SeqBaby.
>>>>>> I love the speed of running Google Chrome with NVDA, but it's a hassle
>>>>>> to find URL's compared to IE or FireFox.
>>>>>> Indi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1/6/2014 12:09 AM, Goldfinga Productions wrote:
>>>>>>> I tried to find something on youtube about this thing. I don’t see
>>>>>>> anything. That’s too bad, I really wanted to see it in action…
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Jan 5, 2014, at 10:14 PM, trahern culver
>>>>>>> <sound.warrior20 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> do you know if it works with external midi hardware? and how do you
>>>>>>>> enter in the step info in the first place? kind regards trey.
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>>>>> thanks. Il be looking for that. I hope we can get some use rom it...
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