Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> 
> About the RFE 630000 addition, my proposal was to allow two different pitches 
> for bar and beat sounds, allowing the use of the two GM2/GS metronome sounds 
> (34=metronome bell and 33=metronome click) or XG ones (21, 22). RG metronome 
> can produce  sub-beat signals too, so all sounds (bar, beat and sub-beat) 
> should be adjustable by pitch and velocity.

Yes, it would be good to have a choice of the two GM2/GS metronome sounds 
and the two XG metronome sounds. Do you have or know of a good XG soundfont?

> About the GUI, my initial proposal was to add only another pitch chooser for 
> bar signal, but then Chris argued that it seems a little arbitrary to have 
> two separate pitch choosers but not three, and it would seem excessive to 
> have three: that suggests there may be a better solution out there than 
> simply having multiple pitch choosers.

I think the simplest and most ergonomic GUI for choosing any number of
pitches would be a mini 300x50 notation-canvas.

> It should have also something like the 
> instrument parameter box, to allow choosing a channel, bank and program for 
> the metronome sounds. With those many controls together, it can be a big and 
> ugly dialog box.

That doesn't sound too bad.

> And what about a new toggle button, or two, to start playing and
> stop the metronome inside the dialog, to give auditive feedback to the user?

Yes, that would be very useful.

> Talking about the metronome, what about a new control to increase or decrease 
> the tempo, inside the transport toolbars? The control should be operable as a 
> live playing or recording live adjustment.

Very useful.

> Visual metronome: I guess that a external program, as an ALSA client with a 
> writeable port should be a better and more flexible solution. The big time 
> window could be also an external program, but an internal one has some sense, 
> too.

What is a "visual metronome"?

William


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