sequencing

[rikbel]

Message 4749 talks about "sequencing" will someone please explain what sequencing means
Thanx   Rik

[Lawrie Pardy]

G'day rikbel,
I dunno if this is absolutely correct, but I've always understood "sequencing" to be the creation of a MIDI rendition of a musical work.

Thus creating a work in NWC, if that work is to be exported as a MIDI, could be considered sequencing.  However most people seem to mean a more detailed effort in a sequencing product like Cakewalk when they refer to it.  These products generally give more access to controllers and absolute timing of events etc.

Lawrie

[Ken Natton]

I suggest that you are placing far too much significance on the word 'sequencing'. I have always taken the term 'sequencing' merely to be a recognition that creating a MIDI file is something more mundane and less artistic than actually performing a musical work. If you create a new .nwc file and place no more than two notes in it, then you have 'sequenced' that file.  I recall years ago, reading a book on elementary harmony that set some exercises. It then, presumably in an effort to be encouraging, stated that in completing those exercise the reader had the right to describe themselves as a composer. Understand, open any sheet of music you have to hand. Copy that sheet of music into Noteworthy Composer. You have 'sequenced' that piece of music. It means no more than that.

Ken

[David Palmquist]

Ken, it's a matter of degree.

Take a look at the excellent examples posted to the Scriptorium.  Sequencing is more than copying notes.  Merely writing notes won't give you the nuances that serious sequencers produce.

A painter can be the person who paints houses or a painter can be a Rembrandt.

[Ken Natton]

Absolutely David, I agree. My first encounter with Noteworthy Composer was through a man named George Pollen. I found his website when I was looking for a MIDI version of Danse Macabre. It was his MIDI files that showed me just how good a MIDI file can be. My own personal recommendation on his website is the piece The Windmill by Ronald Binge. I just love those sighing strings. See his website at http://www.polleng.freeserve.co.uk/ - my understanding is that he created all his sequences using Noteworthy Composer.

I thought after I had posted that comment yesterday that it was somewhat open to misinterpretation. I did not mean to deride MIDI files. I was just saying that the term 'sequencing' implies no level of excellence, just the act of creating a MIDI file. That was what I meant by refering to the book on Elementary Harmony. I would suggest that if you or I used the term 'composer' to refer to an individual, we would not merely mean someone who had completed some exercises in a book on elemntary harmony, but would mean someone who had created some original work of merit.

[Ken Natton]

Oh dear, my memory fails me. That piece by Ronald Binge, sequenced by George Pollen is called The Water Mill, not The Windmill. My apologies to Ronald Binge, George Pollen and anyone who has already tried to find it.