I think I'm going to do these in a separate dialog, hanging off 
a "Defaults..." button (with an explanatory tooltip) that will be available 
from either a MIDI or DSSI IPB.  We have too damn many widgets in these boxes  
already.

I was thinking track for this all along, but Chris's simple "Aren't these 
instrument parameters?" got gears in my head turning, and I did a 180.  Yes, 
I think so.

So color, clef, transposition, highest/lowest playable notes go into this new 
dialog for use at segment creation time.  It makes sense.   Especially when 
instruments can belong to segments individually.  So a trumpet instrument is 
always device X channel Y color Z treble clef -2 etc., no matter where you 
assign that instrument.

It seems a little fiddly in use, almost like there's begging to be some new 
totally separate layer where this stuff is defined.  Something added to the 
studio, like Pedro was getting at, but please for the love of whatever you 
love, not in the horrible bank editor dialog!

But I think I'll vote for fiddly for now.  Fiddly is a start, and I'm already 
biting off a lot more than any Spanish majoring tree hugging documentation 
writing truck driver ever ought to have.  Code is for programmers, not truck 
drivers.  I expect someone will have to walk behind me and wipe my butt on 
some of this too, but I feel fairly comfortable with all this, to my 
amazement.  I'm not a programmer, but I fake it admirably, if I do say so 
myself.

Now, let's make that new button do something.

-- 
D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre  ----   Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek;  registered Linux user #243621

Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/


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