Fit Improv opinions requested (Bruce?)

[Gary Dugan]

What is your preferred method of working with rubato (or any less than
constant
tempo) tracks in CPA? Do you record withoput metronome then use Fit
Improvization, or do you just say to hell with the measure boundaries
and run
free-form? You guys who sync with external audio tape machines must
have a favorite way to work with Cakewalk's measure paradigm.

Most of the stuff I do is not constant tempo; most all of it has audio
tracks, and I've yet to find an ideal work heuristic. I have lately
been just recording free-form and ignoring measures, although this makes
recording (and editing) midi stuff much more time
consuming. I find the "tempo quantization" you get from Fit Improv
unnerving
because of it's relatively coarse sampling (once per quarter note). Not
that
it doesn't work as advertised, it's just that if you want to do any
tempo massages once Fit Improv is done, working with the jagged tempo
map (instead of a smoothly changing one) seems difficult.

If anyone has any "trade secrets" that you'd be willing to share, I'd
love to hear them.

Gary

[Bruce A. Richardson]

Man, it's a tough one Gary.

I tend to run freeform if it's going to be a largely rubato piece. I will
clock to any tempos I can, of course, and have occasionally done some pretty
involved tempo maps, but that gets so tedious as to hardly be worth the
effort.

Other than that, no real tricks of significant merit.

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Bruce A. Richardson
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