On 11/02/2005, at 7:33 AM, Ben Kennedy wrote:
In light of the geometry and editing issues I raised in the previous message, I'm wondering if it would be advisable to drop the distinction of time signature in favour of a more rudimentary "just how many beats in the bar".
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? If so then I would gladly see this go in to Doggiebox. Sometimes mixing time signatures up can be a little clumsy if you're mixing say 5:4 with 6:8 or something. I've only used Doggiebox briefly (alas, I need 30 hours in the day :)) 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. Toby.