Carmelo, Great if you can join the development team. We users can only thank you for wanting to devote your time to Rosegarden.
About your feature... I'd very much like to have lines and control points to implement control automation, much like it is done in ardour. Single control events like they are now (at least in my version) simply doesn't do it when you want some continuous control variation (like pitch-bend or modulation). First thing : we need two models. I don't want to have to specify lines and control points just to disable the sustain because I'm clumsy with my feet and can't get it right when recording. I think the best would be to have the ability to say "Hey, make this control-event ruler line-and-curve-based" and once a ruler is line-and-curve-based, you can add lines and control points. Second thing : not to be offensive, but... equation editor??? Hu? We're talking about music and musicians here. I studied, maths, computer science and acoustics, and those equations you gave as an example just gave me the creeps. Not that I can't understand them, but why should it demand so much brain-power just to automate some modulation? If you ask me, the way you want to do it is a major "no-no". It would definitely hurt Rosegarden if people thought that it was only for nobels. So Why not keep it simple : click to add a point there, effectively creating a new segment or cutting a segment in two. Then provide a way to turn a segment into a curve (with a single control-point inside the curve that you can drag around to control the trajectory of the curve) or the opposite. That's simple, visual and intuitive. If you give enough flexibility as to where the MIDI bytes are sent, then you can always use PD or jMax to compute more complicated stuff, like proportional-but-not-quite-equal or even Poisson-randomized control values and such. Don't loose most users because you want to implement a feature that only very few users would want. If they can manage your equations, then they can manage jMax & Co. Sorry to sound a bit harsh, but I always feel a bit funny when I hear programmers think that programmers are their only audience. Musicians are not programmers. Carl ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
