Re: [Rosegarden-devel] feature: cut and paste of ranges

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

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 12:12 pm, Chris Cannam wrote:

> If that doesn't seem like the best option, what is?

I haven't looked at that yet, but it sounds rather exciting!

I was going to raise one objection to using loops for this, but when I played 
with RG, I see that objection has already been dealt with.  Probably a bonus 
of the new canvas work that I never noticed before.  It used to be impossible 
to continue drawing out a loop while scrolling the canvas, which would have 
been obnoxious.

That isn't true now, so the whole thing seems like it might work at that.  It 
might well go a long way toward mitigating how unwieldy the time/tempo editor 
is to use too.  At least insofar as moving things from here to there, which 
was always the biggest problem.

One other thing though.  I remember what you're talking about WRT the proposed 
change to the transport, but I seem to recall having reservations about the 
idea, because it involved sacrificing something.  What was the sacrifice?  At 
the time, I don't think I was prepared to trade whatever it was for loop set 
buttons, but if loops are suddenly more fundamentally useful for something 
really big (loops have problems when audio is involved, so I've rarely used 
them) then I'd probably change my mind about that.

I'll try to take this for a spin later today, but might not get to it until 
Friday.  If I don't, you shouldn't take that to mean nobody cares!

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