Re: [Rosegarden-user] Program Bank Change Proposal

[alex s. <com...@gm...>]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Chris Cherrett
<st...@tr...>wrote:

> I am currently working my way towards enhancing the program changes in
> ardour3 to meet my wife's needs. Currently ardour3 is very unstable for
> midi and I need a solution right away that can facilitate our very large
> complicated sample library in an intelligent way.
>
> I am exploring first implementing the proper program changes in
> rosegarden qt3 (I know qt4 is on the way). I see rosegarden at
> 99.999999% of the way to what I need currently.
>
> The real drawback of our sample library is it requires program and bank
> changes in order to be useful. In Windows there is software designed to
> do most of this already but hey I am not going there :)
>
> So what I would like to do after many different conversations with a few
> of you in here is as follows:
>
> In the matrix editor add an option to the right click menu that allows
> the adding of a program and bank change. Currently you can add program
> changes through the event list editor but not bank changes. I need both,
> bank and program changes.
>
> So I have put together this mock up screen to illustrate what I am
> talking about:
>
> http://www.tsiwebdesign.com/testing/RoseGarden/matrix_editor_pc_mock.jpg
>
> 1. right click and select the last menu option to Add Program Change.
> The absolute time is taken from the area you clicked on with your mouse.
> possibly the same code to determine where to write a note to on the matrix.
>
> 2. Select the bank and program to use.
>
> 3. A blue dot shows in the header to indicate the location of the
> program/bank change. If you mouse over it, it displays the name of the
> bank and program change as well as instructions of how to edit the
> program change.
>
> 4. is the same as two allowing you to edit an existing program change.
>
> Please let me know what you think as I would like to see this underway
> soon.
>
> Thanks!



Chris, plus 1 here. Changing bank and program on the fly in the matrix would
be highly useful and reduce the to-ing and fro-ing when there's a lot do.

Alex.

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