On 09/28/2012 10:26 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On 09/29/2012 04:04 AM, david wrote: > >> I blame it on the "absolute time" idea. Sometimes I think that if each >> "note" consisted only of a unique ID #, pitch, duration, and the unique >> ID # _of the note that follows it_, there'd be less of this problem. > > The solution to that kind of thing is to be a notation editor instead of > a sequencer. In a notation editor, notes are everything, and MIDI is > generated as needed. In a sequencer, MIDI is everything, and notes are > generated as needed. Rosegarden is kind of straddling the line here, > but it's still a sequencer. What you have is basically start times, > durations, pitch, plus a lot of special metadata to improve notation > rendering.
I don't know the history of development of the MIDI standard, but I think the people behind it didn't give a hoot about notation. MIDI has always had the feel (to me) that it was designed by engineers and programmers, not musicians. -- David [email protected] authenticity, honesty, community http://clanjones.org/david/ http://dancing-treefrog.deviantart.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
