On Wednesday 13 Dec 2006 14:50, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 December 2006 7:33 am, Chris Cannam wrote:
> > Between the Grid size and Quantize menus in the matrix toolbar there is
> > now a Velocity menu.
>
> Menu?  That's what confused me.  To my mind, it's a combo box on a toolbar,
> not a menu.

Ah.  Well, a combo box is a combo of an editable text field and a menu, and a 
combo box that you can't edit is a menu.  Surely?

> > note, or the mean velocity of the selected group.  Or you can select some
> > notes, dial a velocity and choose Adjust -> Set Current Velocity (or
> > whatever).
>
> Ah, I missed the Set Current bit.  Let me try that again.  Yeah, OK.  Not
> exactly intuitive.  I was expecting just changing the box while I had a
> selection would do the trick.

Yeah, it perhaps should.  I was worried it would make it too easy to do by 
accident, especially as there's (still) no visual feedback of changes in 
velocity on the note rectangles themselves.  But the Quantize menu thingy 
works instantly so from that perspective Velocity probably should too.

> I have no idea if timestretching audio will prove useful, but it's an
> interesting toy.

It does rather make our lack of automation stand out though.  The more you 
encourage people to use audio samples, the more they'll miss the things they 
should be able to do with them but can't.

> All of which makes me wish you could do it on the fly and make some 1/2X
> and 2X transport buttons like Pedro and I have been pining for since time
> immemorial, whose original objection, from Rich, was how the hell do you
> play everything 2X when there are audio segments involved?

That actually would be technically feasible, as the time stretcher can run in 
real-time (although with a fairly heavy CPU load, as you can guess from the 
time it takes to stretch a file) and can change ratio on the fly as well.  
Still rather fiddly to do I imagine, but feasible.

> I had "resample" installed.

I actually didn't know about that one.  Looks like it's from Julius O Smith 
which probably means it's the same basic algorithm as libsamplerate.  I won't 
make the importer support it though, because it only outputs AIFF which RG 
can't import natively and I can't be bothered to make the importer do yet 
another conversion step.

> This and rosegarden-lilypondview and rosegarden-project-packager should
> probably all report their findings as [x] don't show again-able
> notification dialogs, I think.

Mmmm...


Chris

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