Silvan wrote: > >> Well, bear in mind that you're probably using examples that don't >> render correctly in Rosegarden either. Rosegarden is just more >> content to render wrongly than Lilypond is. > > Much of the time, that's true, but even when it looks OK, it often > comes out borked.
Do you mean looks OK in Rosegarden? My point really was that very often it looks OK because Rosegarden fudges the wrongness for you, in a way that is superficially presentable but not actually correct. For example, you once sent me a test file which had an arpeggiated guitar line in one segment, and you noted that it wasn't rendering to Lilypond correctly. But it wasn't rendering in Rosegarden correctly either! Rosegarden was just attempting to get away with its inability to resolve these apparently overlapping chords by sticking in overlong notes and rests at the same time, to try to suggest that the following note started before the current one ended. The result didn't look too messy, but if you tried to play from it you'd almost certainly get the wrong number of beats in your bar. Applying de-counterpoint sorted that out but made the whole thing look far more complicated. The first exercise for something like that is to look at the raw notes (in matrix or raw note ruler) and try to work out how you think it actually should be notated. Very often it's not as obvious as you might expect, and it's quite understandable that Rosegarden or Lilypond might have problems. In the case of a simple arpeggiated guitar line recorded from a MIDI guitar or something (*cough* Stairway to Heaven *cough*) we do have at least one option open to us: the notation quantizer could do a much better job if it knew that the notes were "ringing" and that it could safely shorten them harshly when they overlapped, rather than assuming (as it does now) that the performed notes were more likely to be too short than too long. That all depends on the instrument, of course. Chris ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
