I had a thought about the drum score quagmire, and it's probably not an original thought to this list. But, here goes. Part of the problem is that the standard notation isn't really all that standard (it's a HUGE improvement over the prior state of things tho). To work around this problem hardcopy publishers of drum charts typically will include a key (key as in map key, not musical pitch key) to the notation of the piece. If there were a facility in RG4 to define such a key, would this help?
There's also the issue of staff line to MIDI mapping. It seems that allowing a user to alter the mapping would be pretty flexible. Of course, RG4 might want to follow the fine Unix/Linux tradition of providing a sensible default. As for the note heads, on the charts I'm familiar with, a staff line will have a dedicated note head. Note heads aren't constrained in a 1-to-1 mapping, however. Unfortunately, I think I recall some accidentals on a chart or two -- I might be able to dig for them -- where a line's previously defined note and previously defined note head were changed for a note or more. There was text on the chart right at the "offending" location explaining the situation. For me, simply being able to chose note heads on a line-by-line basis on the staff would be all I'd really need. Oh yeah, it'd be sweet if that could be part of a user's RG4 template, so I'd only have to set it up once. Given that hardcopy publishers haven't settled on a perfect solution here, then it would seem that a perfect software solution would be elusive too. Does that help at all? -- Kevin ------------------------------------------------------- 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://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
