>> Or did I get the semantics wrong? I'd expect [d6z2]2 to mean the same >> as [d12z4] (whatever *that* meant) > Sorry, you are wrong. If the ]2 is just multiplied to the length > of the notes inside the chord, there would be no benefit of the [..]2 > notation.
There is a considerable benefit: brevity. If you've written many melody&bass pieces, you'll have done a helluva lot of [G,,8B,,8D,8] stuff that would have been more readably written [G,,B,,D,]8 . We have had several postings in this list over the years from people who've tried to do that and been surprised to find it didn't work. It's so intuitively sensible that it *ought* to work. > I meant that each note *in* the chord has the length as specified > there and the length after the ] doesn't change that. > The length after the ] gives the time when the *next* note after the > chord starts. > So with M:4/4 and L:1/4 > [A4C4E4]2 a/4a/4a/4a/4a/4a/4a/4a/4 > means play the AMinor for 4 beats > but on the 3rd beat start a tremolo on the note a until the end of the > bar. > You can not write this with any of the discussed chord-length-rules > because each note in the chord has length 4. Using my absorptive-tie scheme: [A2--C2--E2--] [a//A//--C//--E//--][a//A//--C//--E//--][a//A//--C//--E//--][a//A//--C//--E//--]\ [a//A//--C//--E//--][a//A//--C//--E//--][a//A//--C//--E//--][a//A//C//E//] It's about the worst possible case for that, but it can represent it. Macros would make it more readable, but this is an obvious case where using separate voices is the way to go. > Of course you can whrite the same as > [z2A4C4E4] a/4a/4a/4a/4a/4a/4a/4a/4 > suppossed the the chord-length is taken from the 1st note and > rests in chords are allowed. That's completely counterintuitive - a rest that doesn't get either played or displayed and is just there to control the playing and display of other notes? > But why not allow the syntax. It's consistent whith the single note > length modifier so it seems to me its easy to understand. There are > no ambiguities in what it means so any software can easy figure out > what to print or to play. Software might manage it but I can't see many humans doing so. =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
