On Jun 9, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 11:46 AM 6/9/05 -0400, Christopher Smith wrote:
Cubase has (had?) an option Set to Value (or Set Length? I don't
remember exactly the name), which did exactly what you are looking
for.
If your own sequencer has something like this, you wouldn't have to
screw around with articulations.
And this option doesn't squash everything together? I'll have to look
into
it to see if Sonar does this. By now, of course, I've redone it all by
hand. :)
Nope! Cubase operates by note start and note length, so it is a very
simple operation to make all lengths the same. Cubase's Logical Edit
has worked out very nicely for me, too. I still have Cubase 4.1 (OS9!)
and haven't upgraded yet. I hope all the neat editing tools are intact
in the new versions.
I hear you! One tool that I have been expecting ever since I started
using Finale is what was called in Cubase "Legato", which might be
better called "Mimimize Rests" or something like that. It just makes
every note selected full value. And of course, the contrary, which is
what you are trying to do.
I suggested a third entry method to the present Speedy and Speedy
Insert.
In a complete measure, right now Speedy changes the present note value
and
pulls or pushes everything in the measure; Speedy Insert addes the
note and
pushes everything in the measure. So something like 'Speedy Fixed', if
you
typed a note value, would....
1. Do nothing, if the note value was the same as the present note (as
with
the regular Speedy).
2. Change the note and add rests, if the note value was smaller than
the
present note.
3. Change the note and delete the subsequent notes/rests, if the note
value
was larger than the present note.
This would make *lots* of my compositional-style entry and editing
incredibly fast, without fighting through Speedy's measure mess-up.
"All I
wanted to do was change those two notes 64th notes. I can't even read
the
mess now!"
I see what you mean. Often I know that a note is going to go in a
certain measure position for a certain instrument, but I don't know yet
what is going to come before or after it in the measure. Doing it this
way in Finale is a huge pain, which is why I do all this kind of stuff
on staff paper with a pencil. I only hit Finale when I KNOW what's
going in the measure. I'm not sure I could ever get my head around
composing directly to Finale, but if your Id and Ego are cooperative
enough to accomplish it, I bow in your direction with the utmost
appreciation.
I have complained about this next thing often enough in the past on
this list, but it bears on the topic here. Because of the idiom I
arrange in most often, I would like to put in the chord symbols first,
then add notes around them. It helps me keep my place, among other
reasons. Unfortunately, chords have to attach to the notes, which
aren't in yet, and even if they WERE, I have to jump through hoops to
put two chords on a whole note, two beats each. I have taken to putting
my chords in Layer 4 (which I hardly ever use for anything else)
attached to half rests (or quarter rests if I need them) so that I have
them there to look at. I wish chords could attach to measure positions,
like expressions do, instead of to entry items.
Christopher
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