On 11 2 2005 at 5:47 pm -0500, Toby Hutton wrote:
So you're not suggesting enforcing a 4:4 based meter or anything, but rather relaxing the interface away from the traditional notation to a 'this bar's tempo is X bpm and there are Y beats in this bar.' Correct?
Yes, precisely. I think you've made this more clear than I did in my post. I certainly didn't mean to imply that we should dumb it down to 4|4 only; rather, I was questioning the value added by the complexity of a traditional time signature (and its basis-note, e.g. quarter vs. eighth etc. on the bottom of the signature). What I'm wondering is that insofar as drum programming, does the user particularly care whether a bar is 6|8 for example? I am proposing that the only importance is that the bar have a particular number of beats, and that those beats occur at a particular tempo. Whether you choose to subdivide into 2 or 3 or 4 or 7 is not something that should be artificially enforced, since after all, you are free to zoom in and around to place drums at whatever intervals you choose anyway.
but I had trouble trying to create a measure of 5:8 - can't remember why... the current interface didn't like it, I think.
Someone else reported this earlier, although it posed no problem when I tried to recreate it. Hmm. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca