Re: [LMMS-devel] Added small feature : display notes from other tracks in piano-roll

[Kevin F. <kev...@ei...>]

On 04/05/2011 11:32 AM, François-Marie de Jouvencel wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> First, thanks to all developers for the wonderful piece of software 
> that is lmms!
>
> I was missing the ability to show the notes from other tracks when 
> editing melodies and/or beats/basslines, so, having little to do this 
> afternoon I put together a (dirty?) little hack to do so,
>
> I added a button to show/hide the notes from the other tracks in piano 
> roll, notes from other tracks appear in light transluscent white. This 
> is useful when making complex melodies in order to avoid dissonances 
> that are sometimes hard to detect otherwise.
>
> Currently this works for instruments tracks (but doesnt display notes 
> from Beat/Bassline tracks) and for Beat/Bassline individual tracks 
> (showing all notes from the tracks in a beat), in fact, it just looks 
> at the notes contained in the tracks of the m_pattern's track's 
> trackcontainer.
>
> Here are two patchs to files include/piano_roll.h and 
> src/gui/piano_roll.cpp from lmms-0.4.10 archive,
>
> let me know if you find it usefull, and any other comments are welcome
>

That's a really good idea. Now if only two piano rolls could be open at 
the same time, we'd be all set. :)

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