On 05/03/2014 04:25 PM, Ted Felix wrote: > On 05/03/2014 05:47 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: >> On 05/03/2014 04:37 PM, Tom Breton (Tehom) wrote: >>> If you have adjacent notes of the same pitch and you select all of them >>> and change their lengths, you don't get a sensible result. >> a) Do whatever I said, even though it's stupid. Don't truncate anything >> to avoid overlaps, don't adjust start times, just screw it all up and >> turn it into an overlapping polyphonic mess that won't render or print >> correctly. > > This would allow the user to go from varying degrees of legato to > staccato by reducing the note duration for all of the selected notes. > That seems useful to me. Or is there already a better way to do that? > > Combining them seems dangerous to me. They probably have four notes > of the same pitch for a reason. The attack is likely to be important to > them. > > Ted. >
Without some means of controlling phrasing by varying note durations, I would find Rosegarden useless. With certain voices the only way to achieve a decent legato is to employ considerable overlap. Repeated notes, on the other hand, often require considerable daylight between them for proper articulation. I don't know if this is relevant to the current discussion, but on my own system I have addressed the issue by exploiting the difference between notation duration and performance duration. To begin with, so that I could see what I was doing, I changed the color scheme so that notes of shorter performance duration and notes of longer performance duration appear in different colors. I then added menu items in the quantizing area to allow me to select the number of milliseconds by which to increase durations and the number of milliseconds by which to decrease them. Selecting a group of notes and hitting a hot-key combination changes the performance durations of the whole group. Changing the tempo has the side effect of changing the lengths of the overlaps and lifts, so another menu entry is provided to recalculate these. And if I want to remove my changes, I remove the quantization in the usual manner. Except for the color of the notes (if that option is selected), the notation itself remains untouched. Tim Munro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list Rosegarden-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
