OK, you may have noticed I've been working on a couple of new things recently. I think they're about ready for some testing now.
They are: * All of the editing tools in the segment and matrix editors (not in notation yet, though that is the intention ultimately) now have context help that shows up in the status bar to tell you what the tool does. That idea came from Inkscape, which does a nice job of things like that. * The matrix has had a number of behind-the-scenes fixes that should go part of the way toward making it a bit more pleasant to use -- mostly things like fine tuning the behaviour of the grid snap on move and resize. You can now also quick-copy a group of notes by holding Ctrl as you drag them (like you can with segments in the segment canvas); there's a velocity inspection/setting menu; and the matrix does a better job of remembering zoom and grid settings. Still tons of possible work left there, including a handful of outstanding bug and feature requests, but it's an improvement. * You can now stretch or squash a segment on the segment canvas by holding Ctrl as you resize it. For MIDI segments this respaces the events to fill the new segment length; for audio segments it timestretches the audio (changes its performed duration without altering the pitch). The timestretcher works better for some sorts of audio than others: it's good for percussion loop samples, very good for extreme stretching of stable sounds (e.g. drop a single note and stretch it to 40 bars -- if that sort of thing amuses you), has more trouble with stuff that has big dynamic variations and non-percussive attacks. It works for stereo audio, as well as mono. * There's a new helper program called rosegarden-audiofile-importer that's used to convert and resample audio files. With this installed, you should be able to open almost any (wav, ogg, mp3, flac) audio file at any sample rate, or drag and drop it straight onto the canvas. Should also work for remote URLs. This depends on oggdec for Ogg files, mpg321 for mp3s, flac for FLACs and sndfile-convert for any other sort of file; it also uses ssrc, sndfile-resample or sox for resampling depending on what you have available. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
