Chris Cannam wrote:
> My alternative to the latter suggestion was just to mark a repeating 
> segment as continuing to repeat after any other segments had 
> interrupted it.  That sounds quite useful from any perspective (e.g. 
> for drum fills), although the mapping on to notation might not always 
> be so obvious in practice.  What do you think?

Great... and I agree that this would be very useful for drum fills too.

But maybe it could be usefull to allow for a variable number of
interrupting segments. So maybe this should just be a feature to place a
"shadow" of a previous segment.

> Now the problem I have with all this, is that DC/DS is already a 
> somewhat ambiguous,

Well.. yes. Lilypond don't do DC/DS either.

> To be honest, for these I would almost prefer just to support the 
> notation but not to play it.  At some time in the future, one could in 
> theory play things like that using some sort of loop/flow track which 
> suggests where to hop from A to B and when (as Silvan mentioned the 
> other day), or I suppose one could have an option to follow notation 
> flow without showing it in the sequencer if desired.

a loop/flow track is definitely another posibility.

There's continuing balance between sequencing and notation features.
If you use the sequencer to produce performing music, notation is not
such a big issue. If you need pure notation so produce sheet music, the
sqeuencer is mostly just in the way and you would probably do better
with pure Lilypond.
However... if you (as I) arrange music of a 25 person orchestra (with
often changing instrumentation), you pretty much need both. It would not
be a too big problem not having "DC/DS al Fine" - but "...al CODA" would
be very nice. Hearing that your ending works in context before you print
and distribute the music is nice.

Peter




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