[Rosegarden-devel] another top 10 thing I miss...

[Silvan <dmm...@us...>]

I know we discussed this before, and Rich pointed out that tempo is 
meaningless to audio.

Still, it's just absurdly annoying having to go in and edit tempo events to 
slow something down, then speed it back up, then slow it down.  I want my 1/2 
speed and 2X speed buttons dammit.  Trying to pick out funky notes at tempo 
is a real PITA without them.  It would also be convenient because I could 
record a 1/2 speed practice version and then a full-speed version for after I 
have my chops up, without having to edit a shitload of tempo events by hand.

I understand slowing down the tempo of MIDI would throw any associated audio 
segments out of whack, but we give people the power to do other stupid things 
too, like putting 27 marks on a single note.  If it isn't useful to slow down 
the tempo because you have audio segments recorded at the old tempo, then 
don't slow down the tempo.  Duh.  Even that ancient ~'92 Cakewalk I used to 
use had some very limited facility for playing .wav files along with MIDI, 
and that didn't stop it from having 1/2 speed and 2X tempo buttons, now did 
it?

Not having these really sucks.

I just filed a feature request.  Nyah.  After 1.0 I'm going to strap on my 
arguing boots.  We need these desperately, dammit!

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