Re: [Rosegarden-user] auto channel takes over and re-activates automatically

2012-10-22 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On 10/22/2012 11:45 PM, Michael J. Wilson wrote: > The reason the test you described wouldn't show the issue is because the > top-level value and the first value in segment B are the same. Quick note: That's true according to the description I wrote, but in practice I was just being lazy in my w

Re: [Rosegarden-user] auto channel takes over and re-activates automatically

2012-10-22 Thread Michael J. Wilson
On 10/22/2012 07:31 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > Test case: > > 1. New doc with track 1 set to "fixed" per default > 2. Draw segment A > 3. Draw segment B, overlapping about halfway > 4. Put some random notes in segment A > 5. Set top level Instrument Parameters volume to 0 > 6. Put some volume

Re: [Rosegarden-user] auto channel takes over and re-activates automatically

2012-10-22 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On 10/18/2012 10:43 AM, Michael J. Wilson wrote: > I understand that I may not be using segments the way they are intended > to be used, but I appreciated the ability to do this in previous versions! I'm not looking at a data dump in KMidiMon or anything, just doing a quick and dirty test. As I

Re: [Rosegarden-user] auto channel takes over and re-activates automatically

2012-10-21 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On 10/18/2012 05:10 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Try this wit ha a midi monitor connected to rosegarden (e.g. > GMIDImonitor) and you'll see what I mean: create a small segment put > some random notes in, put it in repeat mode start playing and changing > the channels and setting channel to fixed.

Re: [Rosegarden-user] auto channel takes over and re-activates automatically

2012-10-18 Thread Michael J. Wilson
I'd like to add that, at least in 12.04, an "all controllers reset" as well as any visible controllers in the Instrument Parameters box are sent at the start of each segment. I have some compositions that use separate overlapping segments in the same track for control data and notes, and the r

Re: [Rosegarden-user] auto channel takes over and re-activates automatically

2012-10-18 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Thanks Michael and jmp for your explanations... I just fired up my (simple) rg and noticed this, I'm in the middle of a long project to be finished tomorrow (actually finishing off the boring presentation thing right now), but thought I'd write to give a heads up, will happily give some feedbac

Re: [Rosegarden-user] auto channel takes over and re-activates automatically

2012-10-18 Thread jpm
Quoting Lorenzo Sutton : > This is on 12.12 > > I'm not sure what is causing this but I can't seem to set MIDI channels > ('Instrument' in rosegarden lingo) properly. If I set the Channel mode > from 'auto' (unfortunately the default) and change a channel this is not > used correctly. > Additional

Re: [Rosegarden-user] auto channel takes over and re-activates automatically

2012-10-18 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On 10/18/2012 05:10 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Honestly I'm not sure what the auto mode really is and what it's for. > Has it something to do with track # -> channel #? I may sound old school > but I like to have full control of my midi channels on a sequencer. I'm afraid I don't have time just

[Rosegarden-user] auto channel takes over and re-activates automatically

2012-10-18 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
This is on 12.12 I'm not sure what is causing this but I can't seem to set MIDI channels ('Instrument' in rosegarden lingo) properly. If I set the Channel mode from 'auto' (unfortunately the default) and change a channel this is not used correctly. Additionally the auto mode seems to re-activat