Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> [chords and relative]
> > The three d are 16th, set in an absolute pitch of d''16.
> > (it doesn't matter if the voice contexts are commented out or not).
> > This has often confused me a lot, but somehow I never got to
> > report this. IMO, they should get the relative pitch *and* the
> > duration of the last note in the first sequence of the chord, thus d''2
> > d'16 might be ok (though I'd vote no), but mixing the duration
> > and the relative pitch from the two components of the chord is
> > obviously wrong.
>
> The problem is , what do you do with
>
> <c e g> <c e g> <c e g>
>
> in your approach you have to add comma's to the c-s.
I think either approach will have lots of "'" and "," in wide range
chords. I got confused the first couple of times inputting chords too.
If duration and register follow the input order of the notes (regardless
of sequential or simultaneous mode), then in order to avoid extra "'" or
"," to "reset" the first note in place, I may need to do something like
this:
<c g' e'> <e g, c,> <c g' e'>
or else I need the following if I stick to the "bottom-up" approach to
building chords:
<c g' e'> <c, g' e'> <c, g' e'>
While carrying over duration and register in the first case preserves
input consistency, I don't see any big advantage over the current method
in terms of input convenience. In fact, the old convention allows me to
write the three identical chords in three identical copies of input:
<c g' e'> <c g' e'> <c g' e'>
But I have to admit that this is inconsistent with the usual behaviour.
Is it possible to add a property that sets whether the duration and/or
register are/is carried over from note to note, regardless of sequential
or simultaneous input mode? Without breaking the existing mudela
source, the default could be set to the old behaviour.
Desmond Lam
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>
> Dear mailinglist, what do you think?
>
> An additional problem is that changing this breaks almost all mudela sources.
>
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