On 11/16/2013 11:57 PM, Tom Breton (Tehom) wrote: > Well, not 100% perfect. I forgot that Beethoven piano sonata 5 also has > 11-let 128th notes.
Rosegarden can't handle anything with notes shorter than a 64th anyway. I think there are some rather good and practical reasons for this. Above all, I think it's a reasonable thing considering the amateur orientation of Rosegarden. As an amateur musician myself, whenever I find a piece with 128th or shorter notes in it (eg. some of the cadenzas from the Arban's trumpet book), I have found a piece I'm NEVER even going to bother trying to learn. Let's get real. When you have to play it at 5 bpm to get all the notes without making mistakes, working up by 3 bpm per week, you'll master this passage, ohhhhh, NEVER! It's also a huge pain in the ass to implement 128th/256th/512th notes on so many different levels. I don't think our core time base can handle divisions that small, there's no room in the GUI for all those extra durations, and on top of it all there aren't enough pixels in our icons to represent things with that many beams or flags unless we scale the entire freaking set down several pixels. I couldn't say how many hours I spent making the current set of icons, but it might have eaten an entire month of free time. No thank you. Not that anybody was proposing we implement the bizarre extremely short durations that were so favored during the Romantic period. I'm just launching a preemptive strike against that idea to dissuade it from arising. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
