On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 07:43 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
At 12:10 AM -0400 6/10/03, Darcy James Argue wrote:On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 11:52 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
And the present system of attaching chords to notes in another layer, means one more pitch to play back, usually wrong, unless you are careful to specify a correct pitch to be hidden or turned into rhythmic slashes, or turned off in playback. It's so darn complicated for such a common effect!
Chris, you're attaching your chords to hidden *notes* in another layer? Why?
You know you can use rests, right?
Not for rhythmic notation I can't.
I'm still confused. I thought we were talking about making hidden entries in another layer in order to attach chords to them -- which is not something that would require rhythmic notation. Those hidden entries can (and should) always be rests, as far as I can tell.
The problem of pitches used for rhythmic notation also playing back is a unrelated problem, isn't it? With rhythmic notation, you don't have to make entries in another layer and hide them -- you can just attach the chords to the pitches used for rhythmic notation, without changing layers.
Of course, it would be nice if there was another option in the Alternate Notation dialog: "Disables Playback." But there are other workarounds, which I'm sure you know about.
(My personal method when entering notes destined to be converted to rhythmic notation is to enter low-register chord roots -- or just copy the bass part, if appropriate. I guess this wouldn't work if you were using multitimbral playback, though.)
- Darcy
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