On Friday 03 August 2007, M. Donalies wrote: > > I definitely agree with you that being able to reproduce pitch bends in > > MIDI is not something over which we should consider turning the world
> This really sucks. I didn't realize that the sequencer was so primitive. That didn't come out very well. As Chris said, of course we can do pitch bends. The problem is we can't use two different channels from within the same track, so there isn't any way to make it automagically play the straight notes on channel X and the bent notes on channel Y. (How does real guitar software handle it if there is more than one bend simultaneously, by more than one interval, say this note is bent a half step, and midway through, this other note comes in bent a whole step, or something. I'm making up a scenario. I'm too stupid to play tab that has bends written in it anyway. I have to figure it out by ear, or mostly I just give up. I'm a real underachiever as a guitarist, as you've doubtless noticed. :) ) Pedro raises an interesting point about channel info being stored with an event, and the track level channel providing a default path if no other path is specified. Real sequencers do do this, and it's one of the things that makes Rosegarden not quite a real sequencer. In Cakewalk (ca. 1991 edition) it was definitely possible to use the controller drawing mechanism to pick which channel the controllers would affect, and it worked independently of whatever channel was assigned to that track. Implementing something like that could have real merit in making us more legitimate as a true sequencer, plus it might also provide a handy mechanism for what Michelle needs to make her tab behave the way she wants. I'm not disparaging the idea of making pitch bend symbols do something. Not at all. It's just that if we had pitch bend symbols that didn't actually do anything audible, they would be in good company with our many other broken or half assed features. (One particularly broken feature that's a great parallel example is the unfortunate matter of our grace notes. I can draw them, but I'm on my own figuring out how they're supposed to sound. Rosegarden gets it abysmally wrong 100% of the time.) -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
