Re: quantizing intelligently

"David W. Jones" <[email protected]> writes:


> When focussed on putting notes into a score, I manually put notes on the score using the mouse pointer.
>
i find the mouse pointer blocks my visibility - it's a large plus sign,
but may be there's a way to customize it ... haven't looked, because i
usually do things from a midi keyboard.

> I don't think either quantizer does a good job for scores. Especially
> if there's more than one melody on a track. Example, 4-part harmony,
> RG has a propensity for misaliging notes of different durations, like
> 1/8, 1/4, 1/2. If I have a held half note in the bass and other voices
> have 1/8 notes, I have to turn the half note into 1/8 notes and tie
> them together to get melodies aligned right on the score. This happens
> even if I do them each on a seperate track, then merge tracks together
> into a single staff.
>
david,

i thought you could get around this problem using multiple voices which
i believe you can do by adding a layer.

of course, i did it using step recording because i don't know what the
quantizer would do - probably exactly what you're saying.

just tried it with top layer having stems up and bottom layer having
stems down. looks great in rg and in print preview, so i imagine it'll
be so when exporting it to lilypond.

top layer: c4 d4 e4 f4 | g8 f8 e8 d8 c2    || 
bot layer: c2    e2    | c4.      e8 g4 c4 || (octave lower)
                          ---------
---- = slur

i had to tweak the slur for the bottom layer by giving it a bottom
position (because the default is top, i think), but that's easy!

i guess quantization is hard enough with one voice, so it would be
pretty difficult with more, but for my purposes, i think your
explanation led me to understand how to use layers!

-- 
In friendship,
prad