Re: [Rosegarden-devel] step recording chords

[D. M. 'S. M. <ros...@gm...>]

On Saturday 29 July 2006 3:50 am, Chris Cannam wrote:

> It works quite well.  Give it a try -- you have to
> enable "chord overlapping notes" mode in the tools
> menu of the notation window.

Hrm.  I don't have any of that, because I didn't install last time.  It seems 
to be on by default.  I've compared an older installed build against the one 
in RGBuild, and this behavior has changed.

> Should we make this the default behaviour?

If it isn't already (as it arguably seems to be here), then yes, I think so.  
This is much better.  I think one voice at a time myself, and almost never do 
chords in the same part, so I wouldn't have noticed how lame this used to be.  
Even playing a chord outright, putting the two notes as close together in 
time as is humanly possible, it used to draw them out one by one, instead of 
doing a chord.  That's pretty lame.

With the new thing, I can do a chord one note at a time, so long as I hold the 
last one, so it lets me hunt with unfamiliar fingers for the right key.  I 
have no problem avoiding chords by playing things a bit more sharply 
separated than normal.  Since this is step recording, the length of time the 
key is down is irrelevant anyway.  This feels about right to me.  Step 
recording is for people like me who can't play the keyboard very well, and 
this slow motion chord entry seems entirely reasonable.

I've only had the quickest piddle with this, but my impression is to make this 
new thing the only behavior, and avoid having yet another option somewhere.  
We've got too damn many options for this and that where we were too 
wishy-washy about imposing some change or other in behavior.  This does not 
seem to be a case that suggests a need for yet another example of that.

Bearing in mind, of course, I didn't just spend an hour really running it 
through its paces or anything.  I just got a quick impression of before and 
after, and I do like after better, based on this quick impression.

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