Piano rolls, on-time, off-time, len, cutback
I have a radical proposal. PRE should offer, and maybe even QML expose, "cutback" (instead of len or off-time). Cutback is written length minus off-time (where off-time is start-time + len). Default start time and cutback are 0 and 0 no matter which system of measurement is used. Notes ending at the same time can receive the same cutback if and only if a length-independent measurement system (e.g., denominators, ticks) is used. Even if one is not, it's really the 5% cutback you care about if you're editing, not the 95% you're leaving intact.
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Problem: In PRE;
How should notes with different values be defined separately?
(whole, dotted-half, half, dotted-quarter, quarter, dotted-eighth, eighth, etc...)
Since "Thousands" is a virtual-constant and problematic, "Ticks" is a real-constant and can solve the problem.
In reply to In other words, you mean… by Ziya Mete Demircan
They are defined today in thousandths with no problem.
But I, too, prefer ticks. Anything else is mad at this point.
In reply to They are defined today in… by [DELETED] 1831606
I sense they may have a purpose in this (thousandth).
But I need another constant to understand what note-value I'm looking at.
Maybe even more
example for a whole-note:
In reply to I sense they may have a… by Ziya Mete Demircan
You seem to be suggesting a scripting language of some kind. In the Piano Roll Editor, the length of notes is, and should be, visually apparent from the bar length. You can't tell today what is a quarter note or an eighth note (unless you have worked with the score in the PRE a while). Personally, I prefer to edit with the plugin where I see the note plainly in the score, and see its value.
People editing in ticks will in short order learn the value of each note-value in ticks. Cutbacks and start-delays are logically, conceptually, in real-time, ticks, not note fractions,.
In reply to You seem to be suggesting a… by [DELETED] 1831606
No.
I'd just prefer the piano-roll editor to show it.
The curly-brackets show the read-only portion:
The square-brackets shows the input boxes:
onTime: [15] len: {3 x quarter} + [465]-ticks // "onTime" value is subtracted from here^^ ^^^ length of last-noteWe find topics to talk to ourselves, Nobody else is interested in that :)
In reply to No. I'd just prefer the… by Ziya Mete Demircan
Yes, it's hard to find good Piano Roll Editor conversation these days.
I agree, that would be a good change.