Re: [Rosegarden-user] More notation

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

On Friday 03 January 2003 02:55, Russell wrote:
> How can I shift the position of the note onto the beat without
> using the matrix editor?

Ah, good one.  No, deleting the rests will never move the neighbouring=20
notes.  I can think of three ways to do this sort of thing, but=20
they're all some way from ideal:

 -- Select just that one note, and use Transforms -> Quantize to=20
quantize its absolute time pretty harshly (to the nearest crotchet or=20
whatever).  Then select the whole bar and Normalize Rests to tidy up. =20
This is probably your best option in a case like this where you want=20
to move the note to an obvious beat boundary, but it's not always=20
going to do what you want.

 -- Select the rest on one side of the note and use Edit -> Cut and=20
Close (which deletes it and does pull back all the subsequent notes). =20
Then move the insertion cursor to the other side of the note and use=20
Edit -> Paste... and select the open-&-paste option, which does the=20
reverse of Cut and Close.  Complicated, but in principle it does what=20
you want -- except that in practice it won't always work because=20
there may be extra rests present in the segment that are not actually=20
visible in notation because they're too short.

 -- Double-click on the note head and manually change its absolute=20
time in the event dialog.  This will almost always do exactly what=20
you need, except it has the rather fundamental problem of requiring=20
you to work out what absolute time to set in Rosegarden's timebase. =20
Fire up a calculator and find the nearest multiple of 960.  Ugh.

I think the inability to move a note slightly one way or the other was=20
one of the first things Hans complained about when he started helping=20
out with Rosegarden ages ago.  It's been on my todo list since then,=20
and I still haven't fixed it.  Damn.  Could you file this as a=20
feature request in the SourceForge tracker, perhaps?


Chris