Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote:
For what it's worth, here's a feature request I've sent to Makemusic: that we be able to enter hairpins from within the Expression tool.
The process of entering dynamics with occurrences of dynamics-text and hairpins requires changing the tool all the time: if there were Expression metatools that were linked to the Smart Shapes (say < and >) it would save a lot of mousing around. Particularly since technically, there's supposed to be a dynamic marking before and after each hairpin anyway.
David Bailey wrote:
I don't have any problem with that, but I disagree that "technically there's supposed to be a dynamic marking before and after each hairpin anyway" -- I've seen countless examples where crescendo/decrescendo pairs are in the music with no dynamic marks within measures of them.
Sure - perhaps I should have put placed it in the context of contemporary music.
I'm sure we've all been in countless rehearsals where the conductor or player asks "what should the dim. go to". Even if you would think it's obvious from the surrounding musical context.
I would hope that if they were to link them in such a way, that they would still be available in the smart-shapes menu as well.
But there are already hairpins you can enter in the shape expressions, and if you enter them with metatools, they're individually editable, too.
Yes but these don't break automatically over systems, don't have the line width able to be set from the Smart Shapes menu etc.
What I would like to see instituted would be a user-definable set of metatools which would allow us to combine things from all the various tools as we see fit, so that we could set up our own work-spaces, and define some metatools from smartshapes, some from the expressions tool, articulations, transpositions, whatever. I can't think of an appropriate key combination to trigger such a thing, but I think it would be a terrific time saver for each of us to figure out what we use most often and have it at our finger-tips.
Agreed, this would be a marvellous solution. Not that I necessarily trust Makemusic to implement such a thing in the best possible way, but it would be great.
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