Sequencer, controlled via a keyboard...
 

Hi all,
Okay. Here's my set-up:
- PC, MIDI-controlled by a SIEL DK80
- PC, MIDI-controlled by a MidiTech 25 keys
- Stand-alone sampler (not relevant here)
- Mike (not relevant here)
- Mixing panel for six channels
- PC, records using a multi tracker software (Audacity for now, and yes, i know, Ardour is the better choice)
Sow...here's the plan.
- I start Qjackctl
- I start a synth/sampler
- I start Qtracktor and hook that up to the synth/sampler
- I load a loop and let Qtractor MIDI-control the synth/sampler
and now...
- I'd like to alter the pitch of the whole sequence using the 25 key MIDI controller, obviously, I'd connect that to Qtractor...and then...I'm in the dark. How to I set Qtractor to follow the keystroke and alter the sequence?
Thanks :)
Thor
Edit - LMMS instead of Qtracktor, yep, also an option...
PS - Names that come to me: Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Kitaro but also Deadmaus and that lot :)
And...I'm waay not that good :) dotn expect anything on Soundcloud just yet hehe

Okay, so, here's what I do have...it is a long one, so you might want to sit down...
A keyboard can be a MIDI controller. Nowadays, that can be done via the USB port, a MIDI to USB converter seems obsolete as far as I know...well, the Origin25 by Miditech seems to do it that way, my SIEL DK80 still needs one...
Anyway...
So, somehow, you hook that to a PC. Have an OS on that thing, I have a Mepis on one for the synth work...(zynaddsubfx and amsynth) and Debian on the one for the sampler (Specimen, it was the one I got up n running). Both have QJackCTTL on there too...have to, it's the better option... :)
so, with one PC dedicated to synths, and an other do samples, the next bit is a mixer...I use the soundcraft EPM6...
All hooked up in there, the next step is recording it...
I use (yet) an other PC (Xubuntu this time) and Audacity, while Ardour is the better option, it eats CPU on that humble PC :)
Modus operandi:
Per PC: start QJackCTL and an instrument. Open the patchbay and hook the controlled (keyboard) the the instrument...
Select a sound on the instrument and test by hitting the keys. If the record PC is active, something should be heared...otherwise...set the sliders on the mixer... :P
The rest...id inspiration (best found on a sunday morning :) for me)
Hit the record on Audacity...and...well...ya get the drift :)
Hope that gets someone going to play some..and get it on Soundcloud :)
Thor