On Thursday 02 August 2007 00:13, M. Donalies wrote: > To do tablature correctly requires at least 2 MIDI channels per staff > at times. (e.g. Hold one note and bend another. This is actually > required for std notation that allows for bends. This is such a > common thing with guitar that I'll call it GtrLick1.)
Ugh. I wasn't aware of that. I suppose it's inevitable, given that MIDI pitch bend is a channel message. > I have some knowledge of MIDI and MIDI files, but I don't know much > about the RG sequencer in particular. PowerTab outputs to MIDI in the > "ugly" way. GtrLick1 would appear on 2 tracks in a MIDI file. Is the > RG sequencer limited to handling things this way? Cakewalk doesn't > output to MIDI that way. A track may consist of multiple MIIDI > channels and can have program changes. Most MIDI files you find on > the net are done this way. Rosegarden splits these into one track per channel. You can only send to a single channel from a Rosegarden track, and that's for the very simple reason that all of the properties associated with the MIDI channel appear at track level (or more accurately at instrument level, but the track has only a single instrument) in Rosegarden. Note that this is also consistent with the way plugin instruments work -- everything on a track goes to the same plugin. I have to say that I think this is a good feature of Rosegarden; it's certainly very much core to the GUI of the program. And I don't think I would see much benefit in changing it (doing so would probably be fairly easy from a data-storage point of view but very hard from a GUI point of view) for the sake of being able to play directly a particular guitar idiom, especially given all the other existing notational idioms that we can't play directly either. (I don't have much time right now so I'm just replying to a couple of obvious things -- I hope to get back to the rest of your email tomorrow) Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
