yam655 / bittyband

An experimental musical instrument/tool
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measure-mode to support measure-based tempo #69

Open yam655 opened 7 years ago

yam655 commented 7 years ago

So... splitting up eat individual note is sort of time-consuming. Doing it isn't bad, but doing it correctly is hard.

Do we have to do it at all?

Well... kind of, eventually... at least, if we're going to use the initial recording with the resulting MIDI...

But for straight sheet music purposes? If that is the goal, do we need it?

Well... we need to know each of the notes used, as well as have an approximate duration.

When tracking tempo changes, though, may be even easier to deal with it by taking the distance between measures than it is to deal with it by taking the length of a known-quarter-note.

If we know the number of beats per measure, and we know the number of words/notes in a measure, we'd need to deal with uneven note durations, but specifics about the length of each note wouldn't matter so much for sheet music purposes.

I see this as almost a collapsable measure mode, but more likely a dedicated measure section of the screen (only present in measure-mode).

While the import mode would be all about producing something that would work with the audio file, the measure-mode would be specific to cranking out up-to-date and correct sheet music for a finalized version.

The measure-mode's exports could start including Karaoke-like output formats.

We could even go all-out and have measure-mode support re-recording the file based upon the updates.

yam655 commented 7 years ago

Needs to support broken measures where it contains a goof we must cut out.