The use of sequenced compositions : Save your best creations !
I recommend the digital keyboard as always in tune, multi use - from drums to violins from organ to howls hoots and electronic morphing sounds. Play away til you hear something really cool and sequence it. Take it from there, changing instrument layers and sounds and play with it. More elaborate multi part and multi layer composition sequences are possible on many keyboards.
Keyboards can be linked by midi cords and they can be played in my own equipment's case while reprising a sequenced file. Multiple keyboards can play together in their own sound samples or those of the performing keyboard.
For my own composing and playing I find the retention of tunes from years gone by useful and enjoyable. I have been able to play some harmonica, mostly " F " harps with low air and suction requirements. Tonight I had played guitar and sung for about forty minutes accompanying sequenced compositions. The sequenced tunes have lyric page notes to identify patches and effects, what instruments, modified how? The information is written on the lyric performance page. Nice big printed letters allow the lyrics to be read at a glance. My keyboards save sequenced materials and multi timbral sounds and samples with midi files on an enclosed disc. Store discs in anti RDF, metal cookie tins work. Label carefully, make a second copy and individually place all discs in guitar string envelopes to avoid physical damage or wear. Many compositions can be saved on a single disc. List all the compositions on the disc label.
The trend is to have shorter tunes these days. That works well for flashy instruments like harmonica. The sequenced compositions should have one's strongest steadiest performances duplicated press for press and dwell and velocity, depth and force. Accompanying with short performances augmenting or soloing makes it easier to be forceful, accurate and timed right. Do the same with other instruments, a short forceful accurate timely and tuneful solo or augmentation is easier to do well and makes songs shorter. Songs or compositions can be replayed easily by listeners. Most of the longer songs of years ago were repetitive as that was how listeners could re-experience the tune.
Some alleged purists depreciate performances through sequencing as "records", they are not. I thought of my sequenced linked twin Kurzweils as my " Robot Choir " playing and singing with them. I wrote the tune, programmed the sounds and did the one perfect go round necessary to have the tune played over and over in whatever instruments which are required.
