On 02/17/2014 10:22 AM, Tom Breton (Tehom) wrote: > Weighing the options, it seems to me that the right way to make it sound > swung is by making lots of tempo events. That's what I should have done > in the first place. > > What I propose would add short ramped tempos, 2 per swing unit (usually > one beat). They can be calculated so that the overall tempo is unchanged. > Then we could have constant timeT to notation and have swing too.
Hi Tom, That approach sounds promising. I think maybe you're on to something. I've often resorted to inserting short ramps or other tempo changes within individual measures to get a swing effect and have been generally pleased with the results. But of course I had to define each tempo change manually, which, needless to say, gets old after a few hundred measures. Pity there's no way to copy and paste tempo events as readily as we copy and paste notes. Slightly OT, but since you're working on tempo events anyway, a useful feature would be some built-in way to globally increase or decrease all tempos within a piece or, better still, part of a piece. Frequently when I play back a piece that I've been away from for a while, it will seem too rushed or it will seem to drag. I used to have an external way to correct the problem, using a perl script. It would unzip the Rosegarden file, parse the XML, modify the tempo numbers by some percentage, and rezip the file (making a backup, of course). The script had a primitive GUI that relied on perl Tk extensions that I don't have on this machine. Tim Munro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
