On Friday, February 10, 2012, Chris Cannam wrote: > I'm not sure a richer MIDI format isn't worth having...
Sure it's worth having, it's just hard to reconcile a neat MIDI file with something that fundamentally can't be represented in MIDI. Is it better to mangle the durations or to put in twelve dozen bizarre tempo changes? My position is that either way you go doesn't really matter, because you're still making a big mess of things in the end. > ...possibly more so than tempo ramps in many situations. I think I'd argue that if we're really just going to categorically refuse to export tempo ramps, then we ought to either remove tempo ramps or offer some function to convert them to fixed tempo changes that _can_ be exported. What we've got now is nobody can figure out or decide anything, so we've had a bug of omission for countless years. I'm simply trying to encourage someone to do something about that, through whatever means seem most appropriate to the guy wielding the shovel at the time. Bear in mind in all of this that this problem has existed for years, and the fate of the world doesn't hinge on solving it right this second. We can happily go on ignoring tempo ramps, and only a few people will ever notice or care. I'd like to think a few would be really happy to see this one finally addressed though. Maybe I'm dreaming. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
