On Sep 27, 2005, at 7:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Well, that prompts a thought. Why not make the first note a tuplet,
but a 16th note in the time of three 32nds? Then with the MIDI tool,
reduce the duration by 1/3.
Would that actually work?
Have you tried this yet? Sounds to me like it would work, so long as
you're still changing the time signature to make the measure that extra
32nd note long.
It never occurred to me to use nonsensical tuplet definitions for
this.
It actually didn't occur to me either, at least not directly. I was
thinking in terms of the invisible, inaudible note, and the tuplet was
just an afterthought to make the extra flag go away.
I'll be curious to know if this tuplet trick works. If it does, I
think it's better than any of the other methods either of us came up
with alone.
Not only that, but I think with this method you no longer need the MIDI
tool at all. If you're doing the note this way, then I see no reason
not to go back to the idea that someone else in this thread mentioned
and create an invisible articulation with playback definition to reduce
the duration by 1/3. Then you could assign it to a metatool for quick
entry. (For that matter, you could make the articulation visible, if
you want to show some sort of comma for the phrase break.)
Not only is this more efficient, I think; it's also less kludgy and
more conceptually related to the real-world purpose. All of your
Speedy entry is the notes as they'll appear, exactly as if you weren't
adapting the playback at all. Then it's a three-step process: (1)
Change the time signature of the measure to accommodate the additional
time space; (2) Tuplet the phrase-ending note to make it expand to fill
the extra time; (3) Apply the articulation to the phrase-ending note to
tell it not to sound all the way through it's now expanded time
allotment. That's pretty logical.
mdl
P.S. I assume you already figured this out, but when changing the time
signature if you do it as compound -- eg, 9/32 + 3/4, as opposed to
just 33/32 -- I believe that saves you trouble with the beaming, as
well as better documenting your intent for when you come back to look
at the file a year later.
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