Re: [Lmuse-developer] poslen_changes

[Florian J. <flo...@gm...>]

Hi Tim,

i think if we tell the user "just don't touch the tempomap", it doesn't
matter which tempo MusE silenty uses, whether it uses 120bpm, 60bpm or a
constantly degressing tempo. As long this setting never changes.

Because all GUI controls can easily (and must!) convert these XTicks
into a frame- or second-number anyway, and never show the user the
underlying XTicks value. So i'd just leave it to whatever it was set before.

greetings
flo

Am 03.02.2013 10:05, schrieb Tim E. Real:
> I wanted to point out but got buried in the noise, that we are 
>  already very close to having linear time - without frames required,
>  using your XTicks.
> 
> I said if a user desires linear time, we tell the user "don't touch 
>  the tempo, leave it flat".
> 
> Let me elaborate:
> Simply by turning off the Master button in the Transport, 
>  this disables the entire tempo map. Et voila! Almost...
> 
> However we would need one further step:
> 
> There is as you may know a manual 'static' tempo value,
>  settable only via the Transport tempo box when Master is off.
> 
> By default it is 120bpm.
> 
> If the user desires a true flat linear time, must we not ensure
>  that this manual static value is overridden with 60 bpm,
>  so that there is a sensible 1 beat per second and then 1 second 
>  divided into sub-ticks  ?
> 
> Or... not necessary? 120 bpm is default but so what?
> 
> What I'm getting at is this:
> 
> At a flat 60 bpm, if your sub-ticks can truly represent a one-to-one
>  sequential correspondence with what should be the exact frame-times, 
>  with no skipped frames, then for linear time we are "home-free" as we say.
> I think, then we could... we might... completely *remove* frames.
> When the user desires flat linear time, turn off the Master tempo map, 
>  set the static value to 60 bpm, and presto! Linear time without frames, 
>  using only XTicks.
> What do you think? 
> A 120 bpm default is 2 beats per second, further divided into sub-ticks.
> That seems kind of odd to me, so that we should set it to 60 bpm?
> But then, 60 bpm clashes with a default 120 bpm project so we 
>  should be consistent and leave it at 120 bpm always?
> 
> Cheers. Tim.
>