Request: Snap notes to beats or beat subdivisions

[xTibor]

My issue is when I'm using the notes layer feature for transcribing things I find it very difficult to align my notes accurately. The vertical axis is fine because MIDI notes have discrete pitches, the problem is on the horizontal axis.

This could be solved by implementing optional note snapping when there's a time instants layer (produced by hand or a beat detection plugin) behind a notes layer, and allowing snapping to different subdivisions of those instants for transcribing 8th notes, 16th notes, triplets, etc. in a melody.

Mockup:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1627292/147836529-3bbfad14-ce31-477f-8bc7-fce894635f2c.mp4

This is how I imagine note snapping could work when snapping set to a half-beat subdivision.

Not a real implementation on the screen capture, just a quick hammering on the note layer's code for shows. I'm not that familiar with SV's code base, no idea what would it take to implement this properly.

[albertmilani]

How are you trying to transcribe things?

I am also trying to transcribe some pieces but I'm finding that the MIDI export needs some additions:

• It must be synced to an Time Instants layer so tempo can be added to the MIDI file. Without this, you'll never get notes lined up with the beats they really apply to.
• It would be nice to be able to specify a time signature for the MIDI file and relate the Time Instants layer's "beats" to the time signature. Without this, it would probably be possible to get the transcription correct with some fiddling in whatever is reading the MIDI file.

I'm a developer and could help with this but I have no experience with SV's code or QT.