Håkon Pettersen wrote at 7:48 pm (+0200) on Wed 27 Apr 2005:
I found more "issues" now when trying to make my first song with 1E9: -when inserting for instance seven bars of 6/8 the speed varies from 60 to 8 dotted quarterbpm.
Weird, I see what you mean. Will fix.
-can't copy bars - that would be useful if my song has an AABA type form, and the A-part has complex beat/bar structure.
Well, what you can do currently is insert empty bars, then copy the entirety of the first "A" part, and paste a couple of times into the other destination bars. I realise however that this involves more steps than it used to. Unfortunately we have a usability conflict now, thanks to the new division between manipulating "song structure" vs. "the notes in the song". Does anyone have suggestions on how to best address this? Conceivably, a third command pair for "cut bars and notes" and "paste bars and notes" could achieve this, but then we embark on dangerously confusing the UI. Hmmm.
-the "word input" mouse pointer does not switch to conventional point when moved over to the inspector to change things, makes it a bit troublesome to target the small arrows
Good point (if the inspector happens to be over top of the song window), I'll fix this.
-The arrow top nudge speed up in the song inspector isn't working all the time, I can't figure out when it is og isn't
I see that too... not sure why... will look into it.
-one cant change the note duration by which one is to adjust speed according to. That means that you will need some more than basic mathskills in some situations. I haven't :p
:) That's true, this is another departure from previous versions. Now, the tempo-basis is determined automatically according to the time signature (e.g. for a 4-based bar, it's quarter-note = bpm; for a 5|8 bar it's eighth-note = bpm while for a 6|8 bar it's dotted quarter). This is in line with conventional musical practice, and I thought that by providing this automatically (vs. the pop-up selector we used to have) it would simplify the UI. How would you prefer this be changed? One idea that occurs to me is that I could create a new preference for "display compound time conventionally" or something, such that when turned on, will give this current behaviour (e.g. 6|8 shown as two beats with dotted-quarter basis). Turning it off would give simplified behaviour (e.g. 6|8 shown as 6 beats with eighth-note basis). Thoughts?
hope it helps, Ben
Definitely, all of this is very helpful... thank you Håkon! -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca