On Wednesday 06 August 2003 13:41, Chris Cannam wrote:
> Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> >> - neither does metronome yet but I liked that scheme we discussed
> >
> > Said scheme being to use a repeating segment.
>
> Just popping up here to say I thought that was a dumb idea, but I
> was too tired yesterday to articulate why.
>
> Anyway. ISTR you suggested that it might be nice to allow the user
> to specify their own metronome pattern.
Not quite. That just leaves this option open for the future, but that's not
the main reason why I'm suggesting to use a plain repeating segment.
> That's as may be, but it'd
> be simpler not to. It'd be very easy to have a dropdown for how
> detailed a metronome you want (bar only / every beat / every half
> beat / etc -- a recursive depth into the bar's subdivisions) though.
> Or settings like [...]
I disagree. We already have everything we need to edit segments.
> > - should that segment be stored (in the Document's configuration or
> > in the global one ? Or both, the first overriding the latter ?) or be
> > generated ? (I'd go for storage - much simpler)
>
> Generating it is surely much simpler if you're not bothered about
> allowing the user to hand-edit their own metronome segment.
Again I don't see how. It's just a couple more segments in a composition...
> See if you're generating a segment, why bother making it a short
> repeating one at all? Why not just go from one end of the
> composition to the other, filling in notes at all the right times?
Isn't that redoing what the sequencer does at playback time ? I mean, there
are no differences between a metronome and a drum pattern, it's just a rythm
played with a specific instrument. Why have extra code for it ? It seems to
me we already have all the required tools to make one.
--
Guillaume.
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