oh no doubt there. rah rah rosegarden!
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 10:30 AM, D. Michael McIntyre <
rosegarden.trumpe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/01/2017 09:01 PM, Ray Klassen wrote:
>
> > Ha ha. What a relief. I've tried to use grid quantize on midi files i've
> > pulled down off the net and like users the world over I thought it must
> > be something wrong with me.
>
> When I really think about it, the grid quantizer probably works better
> than I appreciate. It's just that the heuristic quantizer works much
> better, and I always go with the best result. It's specifically
> designed to get the best notation on the page for a typical human
> performance, and it looks for things humans do when they perform.
>
> That is the one thing separating Rosegarden from every other application
> on the planet, and it's just a back of napkin idea Chris had one day.
> He closed one eye, made some guesses, and took a stab at coming up with
> something. It has issues that have existed since the first day, and he
> never addressed any of them. The whole thing is only very slightly more
> refined than the first draft, as I recall. Even so, it's an absolutely
> brilliant first draft! That thing is truly the only reason I stuck with
> Rosegarden all these years. You can find everything else in several
> other packages, but only Rosegarden does this good of a job rendering
> human performances as legible notation; all while preserving the
> original human performance.
>
> It mostly fails on grace notes, slurs, and heavily legato playing. Plus
> of course when your timing is just way to hell and gone, like mine. I'm
> a heavy off-the-beat player, and consistently hit everything either
> ahead of or behind the mark.
>
> --
> D. Michael McIntyre
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