Hi,
I use Hermod for some years now and i was about to prepare an email asking for some new features, for an eventual os update, but the Hermod+ was released and was hoping to see some very specific workflow improvements.
I have read the new manual for Hermod+ but i can’t find anything about ‘step nudge’ editing - an example of those very specific things i was hoping to be upgraded. Or i simply missed this one in the manual …
I don’t know how many people really use Hermod for it’s original purpose, to really play and record everything off the grid with lots of note information, because if it was really used for free improvisation this problem would be known and asked by everybody: if you really use Hermod off the grid and write intricate and complicated melodies, you can’t manually edit and replace steps off the grid.
… can’t place off the grid unquantized notes in any way but placing them on the grid … because you can’t nudge notes to the right or left, to place them with the original philosophy in mind, off the grid … or i couldn’t find yet the way of adding (not just deleting) an extra off grid note manually after having recorded free off grid melodies, as Hermod was intended to be used … right now it can record off grid complicated compositions, but can’t edit them the same way.
Also, i couldn’t find a way to freely nudge (not rotate) the entire sequence to the left or right in case the midi protocol was too slow to record the notes exactly on the grid … example: i record notes in sync with the Arturia Keystep sequencer, everything clocked and well, but the notes are not starting to record exactly on the first clock beat, because of the classic midi or usb protocol lag … and i want just to nudge the enitre sequence to be exactly on the first clock beat; i only can do a quantized sequence or quantized rotation, no free nudge - i mean pixel by pixel, maybe there’s a dimension or a scaling to what i mean, the smallest possible time division. The one that let’s Hermod write anything anywhere, but doesn’t let it edit the same way.
So the whole “off grid” experience is not complete … you can record everything off grid, but the edit is on grid … and a rigid quantization ruins the effect of the free intention, and doesn’t interpret complicated melodies well.
Right now the editing scenario seems to be only one, assume that somebody is thinking all his music on the grid and can’t play keyboards well, so it will quantize the “wrong notes” at the end of the recording session anyway, for let’s say techno, a linear bpm.
But what about an intentional off grid composition with intentional dynamic tempo, not a linear bpm in mind? … not trying just to play on grid and save the bad playing skill with quantization, but on the contrary, the intention of being free not by mistake, but precisely that. In this case the nudge tool could let the artist be all the way off grid, because this is what Hermod is all about, freedom is what sets it apart from any other sequencer. Especially timing freedom. For this timing freedom the first important thing to edit is the placement in space and time of the recorded note. The free movement of a note (or the entire melodic phrase) is the most important thing to edit in a sequencer dedicated to this type of free sequencing …
@Thibault there’s any way to do this in the new Hermod+?
Thanks
