From: Raindrops F. S. <rai...@gm...> - 2014-12-08 11:14:23
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My responses are inline. Regards, Narayan On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Raine M. Ekman <ra...@ik...> wrote: > Quoting Raindrops From Sky <rai...@gm...>: > > > The core issue is, *how to produce Blue notes that are so essential for > > Jazz/Blue*. > > I'm pretty sure people play both blues and jazz music on pianos, which > are even more limited than LMMS. So you could start by not writing > things like "LMMS cannot create Jazz and Blues music". > wow- why the flame? > > The Piano Editor does not allow us to pitch-shift individual notes. > > You can bend an individual note through the "detune" feature: > https://lmms.io/documentation/1.0:Piano_Roll_Editor#Editing. > > Ok I had missed this new feature. It actually provides both shifting and bending. But it is not a universal solution anyway (see below). > Detuning a note doesn't work for MIDI-based plugins, i.e. Vestige, SF2 > player, OpulenZ and ZynAddSubFX. For those you only have pitch bend > for the whole instrument at once. > OTOH, ZynAddSubFX has a pretty universal retuning mechanism, see: > http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/doc_2.html#w2 > > You could use that for tracks that need pitches outside the 12-tone > equal temperament. It should be quite a bit more convenient than > separately automating every note of some pitch. > > > > The pitch control is available at instrument level, which means any > > constant/automated shift will apply to ALL notes produced by the > instrument. > > This is the minimum level of support for pitch control, it's pretty > much equivalent to what MIDI offers in live play. It works for > monophonic lines, but is quite a bit more trouble to automate than > note detuning as the automation track will be separate from the note > segment. > > There's an issue filed on the tuning subject: > https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/1387 > > > > > So the solution would be to add a Pitch knob to the Song Editor, which > will > > allow both pitch-shifting and pitch-bending of specific notes. > > Wouldn't you need at least two, one to select the note and one to > bend? Or 12, if you want to shift/bend more than one note at the same > time? > Actually I was thinking of applying an automation track to this knob, rather than changing its value by default. > -- > ra...@ik... > softrabbit on #lmms > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards > with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more > Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Lmms-users mailing list > Lmm...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-users > |