On Monday 11 December 2006 8:38 am, Chris Cannam wrote: > * 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.
Seems a little odd when the help goes away after I press shift. Having the help crawling constantly side to side as the notes change widths (C3 C#3 D3) is rather annoying. > 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); Check. > there's a velocity inspection/setting menu; Total blank trying to figure out what you're talking about here. > and the matrix does a better job of remembering > zoom and grid settings. No basis of comparison here, really. > * 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). There *is* a color index problem here. I put in a +1 somewhere that needs to be removed. Now where the bloody hell did I put that +1? (I was trying to hack around a problem caused by an underlying root I believe you discovered and corrected.) Um. Let's see. Interesting. I hope the change isn't permanent on disk somehow. Sounds rather crappy with this horn part, but I also reduced it by a factor of about 2/3. Seems to fundamentally work anyway. Notation goes all to hell when you do this, unsurprisingly. I'm thinking you should go whole hog with the status bar tooltip thingies and explain about the stretching and whatnot in the main window too. (And why does the status bar in the notation view always say 0%? It's done that for years, and it looks incredibly stupid.) > * 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. Tried to drop an mp3 onto the canvas from my desktop. "Can't add dropped file. Bad audio file path /home/silvan/Desktop/dungeon.wav.mp3" This is universal for .mp3 .ogg .au files tried from various random locations. Likewise if I try to add a non .wav file manually in the audio file manager. Two things there. 1) Why did we we decide to hide the audio file manager? I had to spend half an hour looking for the damn thing the other day. The icon disappeared, and I had no idea which menu it was on. I got out my book to look it up, and confirmed there used to be an icon. Unfortunately, I only referred to the icon in the book, so everyone is just as screwed as I was when they need to find this. 2) The file open dialog in the audio file manager doesn't want to look for anything but .wav files. It doesn't appear that any resampling is taking place when I import a file recorded at the wrong rate. I also have the forgotten after-effect of switching JACK over to 44.1 to deal with. This project I'm slinging things into at random was originally recorded at 48, and I've got a warning about that in the file manager, but no offer to fix it, nor to resample newly-imported files at 48. > 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. Maybe that's part of my trouble. Well, no, probably not. I didn't have mpg321, but I do have oggdec, flac, and sndfile-convert. I have mpg321 now too, and no change. Another thing there, we really MUST do something about documenting the growing number of helper apps without which many of our newest features are useless. -- D. Michael McIntyre Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ See my new music stand unfolding at http://users.adelphia.net/~silvan/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
